It’s that time of the week again, Terrans, when we engage your frontal lobes with the very finest in future fiction!
Within these pulse-pounding pages you’ll find the latest zarjaz instalments of Judge Dredd: The Long Game, Kingmaker, Max Normal and Scarlet Traces, plus we have a complete Future Shock from writer Andi Ewington and debuting art-droid Anna Morozova, who recently completed her comics art course at Dundee University and whose graduate portfolio caught our eye!
It’s always exciting to welcome new talent to the prog, and over the last four decades we’ve taken no small pleasure in seeing creators that cut their teeth on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic go on to become some of the most sought-after in the world.
We’ll be seeing some more fresh names appearing here over the next fortnight, so keep those eyes peeled, Earthlets…
2000 AD Prog 2128 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!
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Cover by Staz Johnson
JUDGE DREDD // THE LONG GAME
By Michael Carroll (w) Mark Sexton (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, one of the made men of organised crime outfit The Parliament has been killed by Dredd…
SCARLET TRACES // HOME FRONT
Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
1968. It is decades since Mars waged war on Earth, and the major nations have access to Martian-derived technology, but Britain is still recovering from Martian bombardment in the 1940s, when much of the south of England was destroyed. This was followed by the arrival in the 1950s of two million Venusians, seeking refuge from Martian occupation. Now, the Martians have weaponised the sun, and are on the attack…
MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES
Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, and he’s now bought up old shuggy hall the Golden Pocket, a pivotal place in his childhood…
FUTURE SHOCKS // JUNCTURE
Andi Ewington (w) Anna Morozova (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…
KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS
Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…
