Comics

OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2117

6th February 2019

Welcome, excitement-seeking Squaxx, to this week’s circuit-shattering issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – 2000 AD Prog 2117 is out now!

Inside you’ll find more zarjaz delights to energise your diodes — it’s man versus machine in Judge Dredd; Nolan Blake comes under fire in Skip Tracer; the survivors of the R-Actol 3 release count the cost in Brink; there’s a desperate battle to stop the Numen from claiming further victims in the finale to my latest 3riller Keeper of Secrets; and we welcome back this prog Kapiten-Inspector Atalia Jaegir for the start of her second arc on the war-world of Nu Earth, Bonegrinder, courtesy as ever of creators Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby.

2000 AD Prog 2117 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

Cover by Raid71

JUDGE DREDD // MACHINE LAW
by John Wagner (w) Colin MacNeil (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 100 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, robot Judges with increased empathy are becoming a regular feature on the streets, much to the lawman’s chagrin…

SKIP TRACER // LOUDER THAN BOMBS
by James Peaty (w) Paul Marshall (a) Dylan Teague (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s now home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, with powerful psi-abilities. Now, Blake must investigate a terrorist cell…

BRINK // HIGH SOCIETY
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 wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. Bridget Kurtis, investigator with the HSD, went undercover on Yuliya Habitat to look into sect activity, and managed to stop a maniac cult from flooding the Habitat with a dangerous gas…

THARG’S 3RILLERS: KEEPER OF SECRETS
by Robert Murphy (w) Steven Austin (a) Pippa Mather (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! London, 2019, and during the day Jon Tanner is an apprentice butcher at Smithfield Market. At night, he likes to live it large at the capital’s many clubs — where he meets Jemima, who shows him an ancient Roman curse tablet. Jon rashly curses his boss, causing a Numen to appear and brutally murder him. Now, Oracle Adelphi must sort out this mess before more die…

JAEGIR // BONEGRINDER
by Gordon Rennie (w) Simon Coleby (a) Len O’Grady (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxy-wide war with the Souther forces, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals amongst her own ranks. She’s also suffering from the Strigoi curse, a fault in the Nort DNA that can bring out the beast within. Now, she’s on a mission with her team on Nu Earth…