You can stuff your Jingle Bells where the sun don’t shine – this is the real sound of the festive season! Check out the special soundtracks for the 2000 AD Christmas issue!

Now it’s not just your eyes that will be able to channel Thrill-power – your ears can too! We asked just some of the creator droids behind this year’s bumper 100-page festive Prog to choose music that directly inspired or neatly complements their respective stories.

Once we’d weeded out the “the screams of my enemies” and “the sweet sonorous call of Cthulhu”, we distilled their suggestions down into four playlists on Spotify.

So grab your copy of 2000 AD Prog 2162 and click on the images below to sample some of the aural inspirations behind the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – as chosen by Michael Carroll (Proteus Vex), Kek-W and Dave Kendall (Fall of Deadworld), Dan Abnett and Richard Elson (Feral & Foe), and Brendan McCarthy and Peter Hogan (The Zaucer of Silk)!