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OUT TODAY: 2000 AD Prog 2042!

2nd August 2017

Join us for another Thrill-burst as 2000 AD Prog 2042 hits shelves and digital!

Take the plunge into another scintillating thirty-two pages of pulse-pounding zarjazness thanks to your weekly circuit-smasher, Earthlets!

Joining Judge Dredd, Grey Area, Hunted and Greysuit this prog is a new series of The Alienist — Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby and Eoin Coveney’s Edwardian chiller, in which the not-of-this-Earth Madelyn Vespertine investigates paranormal outbreaks accompanied by Professor Sebastian Wetherall aka unemployed actor Reginald Briggs.

Imagine Doctor Who if the crusty old guy was actually the assistant and his young companion was the alien entity really running the show…

Step into the future with 2000 AD, Terrans – it’s a white-knuckle Thrill-ride!

2000 AD Prog 2042 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps!

THE ALIENIST // INHUMAN NATURES
by Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie (w) Eoin Coveney (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
England, 1908. Madelyn Vespertine, an Edwardian woman of unknown age and origin, investigates strange events of an apparently occult nature, accompanied by Professor Sebastian Wetherall. Little do those that meet the pair know that the Professor is actually an out-of-work actor called Reginald Briggs, a stooge covering for the fact that Madelyn is not human, and is trying to protect mankind from an imminent interdimensional threat…
The Alienist created by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby & Eoin Coveney

GREYSUIT // FOUL PLAY
by Pat Mills (w) John Higgins (a) Sally Hurst (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Bolivaria, 2014. John Blake is a GREYSUIT, a Delta-Class assassin working for a branch of British Intelligence. Given superhuman powers through extreme mental conditioning, Greysuits are feared for their ruthlessness. But Blake’s programming has broken down, and his memories have returned. Now he’s getting payback on his handlers. But having targeted arms dealer Hugo Prince, Blake’s been captured and facing execution…
Greysuit created by Pat Mills & John Higgins

GREY AREA // LUTWOT HOLIDAY
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The mid 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 like Captain Adam Bulliet and his team – wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Confronted with all manner of off-world life-forms, they have to keep the peace…
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 hasurned 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