2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Get On Yer Bike & Ride… Clint Langley covers Prog 2370
26th February 2024
Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – join bloggers Richard Bruton and Pete Wells as they uncover the greatest covers from 2000 AD!
You’ve seen it on the shelves or popping through your letterbox already, but we’re going back to last weeks’ spectacular Clint Langley cover to 2000 AD Prog 2370 now – it’s Judges Death and Fire comin’ at ya’ on a bike from hell…
It’s Clint’s latest foray of fear and horror in Deadworld and the Dark Judges, showing us the delights of Kek-W and Dave Kendall’s ongoing The Fall of Deadworld series, which roared back into Prog 2370 with the continuation of the Retribution storyline.
Clint’s got biking form with the Dark Judges as well, with this cover acting as a homage of sorts to his own cover of Prog 2025 where it was Judge Fairfax and Jess Childs roaring out of the cover at you. So, hang onto those helmets one and all, let’s get into the putting together of this latest Langley bit of brilliance!
There’s not too much art to show you with this one, as Clint works pretty much direct with inks and brushes – like he told us when sending the art across, ‘I tend to go straight into the art!’
He did have this to say though – ‘I really enjoyed working on the Deadworld covers. Love the Deadworld strip in the Prog. Getting to draw such classic 2000AD characters is always a pleasure.’ And a pleasure it is to see you on the cover Clint!
As with all of Clint’s covers, he’s old school, hand-drawing the covers with ink and brush, A2 sized (which must just look stunning to behold in all their fearful majesty!) After that, it’s scanned off to the computer and then digitally coloured with Photoshop. So here’s that fully inked cover to feast your eyes on…
Thank you so much to Clint for sending all of that along – Quaequam Blag, just absolutely stunning as always, the sort of thing that leaps out at you, grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go – it’s the thrill-powered way!
You can find Clint’s cover on the front of Prog 2370, in newsagents, comic shops, and from the 2000 AD web shop – available right now! For more of Clint’s incredible work, check out the great Art of Clint Langley Facebook page.
Now, as an added extra, Clint was good enough to send over some of his finished inks for his previous Fall of Deadworld covers – all done in the same style and the same fashion, huge direct inked pieces that just boggle the mind…
We start with Clint’s first Deadworld, giving us all the grotesque delights and absolute horrors that you’ll find in the strip – the cover to Prog 1980
Next came Prog 2025 with the cover that Clint’s homaging in his way with this latest – showing Judge Fairfax and Jess Childs doing their damnedest to escape the clutches of Judge Death and his grotesque group, an escape that we all know just isn’t going to happen – it’s called the FALL of Deadworld after all!
And finally, we have Prog 2092, with a quite wonderfully wicked and unbelievably unholy look at the main man himself – Judge Death!
