2000 AD Prog 1980 out now!
11th May 2016
The latest awe-inspiring issue of the award-winning, galactically renowned Comic of Tomorrow – 2000 AD – is out today!
You’ll find the Thrill-machine thrumming at full capacity with the latest instalments of Judge Dredd, Sláine, Brink, Survival Geeks and Tainted, the latter two reaching their zarjaz finales next prog as the last of the series that commenced in the spring Thrill-wave come to a close.
2000 AD Prog 1980 is out now in both print and digital, as well as through the zarjaz 2000 AD apps for Apple, Android, and Windows 10 devices!!
JUDGE DREDD // THE LION’S DEN – Michael Carroll, PJ Holden, Adam Brown
Mega-City One, 2138 AD. Home to 72 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Resources are stretched, crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all was JUDGE DREDD — he was the Law! But he is now presumed dead after a shuttle explosion, and Joyce has been extradited to Brit-Cit…
SURVIVAL GEEKS // LORD OF THE RINGERS – Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby, Neil Googe
Somewhere in the outer limits of space/time, plunging through the planes of reality, is what looks like a regular suburban two-up two-down, but it is in fact powered by misfiring transdimensional technology. Inside live sci-fi obsessives Clive, Rufus and Simon, plus new reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond. Now, a new member has joined the crew — the always popular Kevin…
SLÁINE // PSYCHOPOMP – Pat Mills, Simon Davis
Albion, in a time of legend. Celtic warrior SLÁINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland, before returning to being a wanderer. Now, having journeyed to the Isle of Monadh to rescue Sinead from the Drune Lords, he’s discovered that they have been experimenting on their own creations — including the brutal, superhuman Primordial, whom Sláine has just learnt is his old friend Gort…
BRINK – Dan Abnett, INJ Culbard
The early 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a uninhabitable wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2075 and millions were housed in a number of Habitats, the human race crammed into these artificial worlds, living off synth food and nudge drugs. Now Habitat Security Division officers Brinkmann and Kurtis are investigating a sect murder…
TAINTED: THE FALL OF DEADWORLD – Kek-W, Dave Kendall
The planet that eventually became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a dimension parallel to our own. But there are many signs that the end of days is coming: riots, storms, food shortages. Judge Fairfax, fleeing the chaos, turned up at a farming family’s door, insisting they help him escape. Their journey has been fraught with peril as the Dark Judges’ corruption spreads…
