2000 AD Prog 1985 out now!
15th June 2016
Welcome to another circuit-shattering, aweinspiring issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, guaranteed to energise your frontal lobes!
While Black Shuck, Grey Area, Sláine, and Brink are all surging ahead on their respective arcs, we reach the conclusion to the current section of the Judge Dredd storyline this prog in readiness for the start of the climactic chapter, Reclamation, by Mike Carroll and Colin MacNeil next week. Be here, Terrans, as all the pieces of the conspiracy begin to slot into place!
2000 AD Prog 1985 is available 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
by Michael Carroll (w) PJ Holden (a) Adam Brown (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
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 is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! But he is now being held at a med-facility, and Joyce has teamed up with Detective Armitage…
SLÁINE: PSYCHOPOMP
by Pat Mills (w) Simon Davis (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
Albion. Celtic warrior SLÁINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess and became the first High King of Ireland, but is now a wanderer. Having journeyed to Monadh to rescue Sinead from the Drune Lords, he’s discovered that they have been experimenting on their own creations, much to the displeasure of the Cyths’ jailer, the Archon Yaldabaoth. Now, he must help Sinead spring Zana, the mother of humanity, from her cell…
BRINK
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 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, in the process of investigating sect activities, HSD Detective Brinkmann has been killed…
BLACK SHUCK: SINS OF THE FATHER
by Leah Moore and John Reppion (w) Steve Yeowell (a) Chris Blythe (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Scandinavia, 815 AD. When the Anglo-Saxon warrior known as BLACK SHUCK washed up at the court of King Ivar, it was discovered he was the monarch’s bastard son, sired during a Viking raid on the town of Dunwich. Shuck successfully aided Ivar in his fight against the monstrous Jötunn, and became king himself. But his bestial curse has been passed on to his unborn sons, and his family will perish unless he seeks help…
GREY AREA: LAST CALL
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The Global Exo Segregation Zone — aka the GREY AREA — is a huge sector in Arizona given over to housing the large number of ET immigrants seeking a new home on Earth, and policed by Exo Transfer Control squads, such as Bulliet’s team, comprising Birdy, Feo, Kymn and Neats. Now, plunged through a wormhole and stranded on Homeworld, they are fighting to save the alien planet from destruction at the hands of a God-Star…
