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OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2071

7th March 2018

Welcome to the weird and wild worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic for another circuit-shunting slab of scrotnig excitement – 2000 AD Prog 2071 is out now!

This prog we reach the zarjaz conclusion to the eleventh book of Savage, while elsewhere Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors, Brass Sun and Bad Company all come to their penultimate instalments — make sure you don’t miss the ghafflebette finales next issue!

Meanwhile, steel your Thrill-buffers and upgrade your optical sensors for And don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage to locations in the UK is free!

JUDGE DREDD: LIVE EVIL
by Ian Edginton (w) Dave Taylor (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to over 72 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, a spacecraft has crash-landed in the city, and Dredd has ordered Exorcist Judge Lamia to help investigate the crew’s fate…

SAVAGE: THE THOUSAND YEAR STARE
by Pat Mills (w) Patrick Goddard (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
In 1999, Britain was invaded by the Volgans, and lorry driver BILL SAVAGE’s family were killed. He led the resistance to victory in 2010, when the enemy surrendered. Now, in 2015, Savage has been stationed in Volgan-occupied Berlin under the guise of bar owner Herr Wilder, but his hatred of Volgans caused him to go on killing sprees. Now, he’s learnt the truth behind the Thousand Year Stare, a secret Volgan experiment…

BRASS SUN: ENGINE SUMMER
by Ian Edginton (w) INJ Culbard (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The Orrery is a clockwork solar system, a clutch of planets orbiting a vast BRASS SUN, but the outer worlds are freezing as the sun dies. Young Wren was charged with finding the elements of the key that would restart the sun, and embarked on an epic quest with conductor novice Septimus. He freed Wren from the clutches of the Motherless Men, and together they escaped, but not without consequence. Now, it is several years later…

ABC WARRIORS: FALLOUT
by Pat Mills (w) Clint Langley (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mars, the far future. War droids created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the ABC WARRIORS are resistant to Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical warfare. Charged with bringing peace to the civil war-ravaged frontier colonies on the Red Planet, the Mek-nificent Seven have discovered they’ve been manipulated by Blackblood and Volkhan, working in league with the evil Howard Quartz, and are now fighting back…

BAD COMPANY: TERRORISTS
by Peter Millian (w) Rufus Dayglo (a) Dom Regan (c) Simon Bowland (l)
It has been a decade since man fought the Krool on the planet Ararat. Danny Franks was just a raw recruit until he was drafted into the guerrilla unit known as BAD COMPANY. Kano, Fly-Trap, Mad Tommy and Thrax were living in a veterans’ compound, dosed in psyche-chem to keep the memories at bay, when they realised the truth about the war had been hidden from them. They busted out, and are now enemies of the state…