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OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2035!

14th June 2017

Engage eye-pods and prepare for another zarjaz optical avalanche, courtesy of 2000 AD!

Beneath the glare of Richard Elson’s cover for the new series of Hunted, there’s another circuit-shattering issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with FIVE pulse-pounding Thrills at your disposal!

This issue welcomes back the SF border-control thriller Grey Area, back this Prog for its fourth arc, with the Abnett and Harrison droids once again on script and art duties, as Bulliet and crew finally make it back home, having been stranded on an alien planet. But following the Godstar event, things have changed in their absence, and they’re going to find fresh challenges and enemies waiting in the wings…

PLUS there’s a brand new Judge Dredd story from Rob Williams and Chris Weston, with colour by Dylan Teague and letters by Annie Parkhouse, which the creative team talk about in the latest episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast!

2000 AD Prog 2035 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps!

JUDGE DREDD // THE FIELDS
by Rob Williams (w) Chris Weston (a) Dylan Teague (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2139 AD. Home to over 72 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Unemployment is rife, poverty widespread, and crime is rampant. Tensions rest on a constant knife-edge, and only the zero-tolerance Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!
Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra

BRINK // SKELETON LIFE
by Dan Abnett (w) INJ Culbard (a) Simon Bowland (l)
The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a uninhabitable wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. Bridget Kurtis, investigator with the Habitat Security Division, was involved in a sect-crime case that saw her partner murdered. Now, she’s a consultant on a new Habitat build…
Brink created by Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard

DEFOE // DIEHARDS
by Pat Mills (w) Colin MacNeil (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
1671. It is five years since London was devastated by the Great Fire, the inferno caused by a comet passing over the capital, and from the ashes rose the undead, hungry for the flesh of the living. Protecting the populace is former Leveller Titus DEFOE, who led an elite squad of zombie hunters. Having defeated the evil magician Faust, who was controlling the stenches, he tried to retire — but the reeks have returned once more…
Defoe created by Pat Mills & Leigh Gallagher

GREY AREA // BACK IN BLACK
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The late twenty-first century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ETs attempting to arrive on the planet are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers. When a Godstar tried to consume Earth, Adam Bulliet’s team saw it off with a nuke, which also flung them across the galaxy through a wormhole. Now, they’ve made it back home…
Grey Area created by Dan Abnett & Karl Richardson

HUNTED // FURIES
by Gordon Rennie (w) PJ Holden (a) Len OGrady (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Nu Earth, just one planet among many caught up in a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers. Strategically vital, both sides are desperate to secure it but use of chemical weapons has rendered the atmosphere poisonous. A Souther general has turned traitor and sold information to the Norts, leading to the massacre of the Genetic Infantrymen. A wanted man, with many enemies out to kill him, he has to stay one step ahead…
Rogue Trooper created by Gerry Finley-Day & Dave Gibbons