Comics

OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2087

27th June 2018

Hold on to your butts, Earthlets – 2000 AD Prog 2087 is out now!

Alongside Durham Red, Skip Tracer, The Fall of Deadworld and a complete Judge Dredd story from Rory McConville and Dave Taylor, a new series of transtemporal thriller The Order starts this prog, courtesy as ever of Kek-W and John Burns, as this fourth arc The New World picks up the pieces from 2017’s Wyrm War.

For those Terrans that need a quick refresh, see the handy recap below to get you up to speed — and if you’re completely new to this zarjaz Thrill then you can pick up the first two series collected in the trade paperback Die Mensch Maschine, 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!

Cover by Brendan McCarthy

JUDGE DREDD // INTEGRATION
by Rory McConville (w) Dave Taylor (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to 100 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! 

SKIP TRACER // HEAVY IS THE HEAD
by James Peaty (w) Paul Marshall (a) Dylan Teague (c) Simon Bowland (l)
The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s now home to every kind of undesirable, and an easy refuge for wanted criminals. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker-for-hire. Now, one of his quarries has been assassinated…

THE ORDER // THE NEW WORLD
by Kek-W (w) John Burns (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wyrms, creatures from another plane that systematically break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a secret band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But the Wyrms have fractured time, noble robot knight Ritterstahl has been lost, and The Order themselves are splintering..

DURHAM RED // BORN BAD
by Alec Worley (w) Lee Carter (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by Strontium 90 fallout. These ‘mutants’ became a victimised underclass, forced into ghettos, with bounty hunting the only job open to them. One such Search/Destroy agent is ruthless vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Out of work and needing cash, she’s been hired by dying mutant ganglord Monkey Harris to find his mother…

DAMNED: THE FALL OF DEADWORLD
by Kek-W (w) Dave Kendall (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The planet that eventually became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a dimension parallel to our own. But the end of days is coming: riots, storms, food shortages. Creatures known as the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. Now, Judge Fairfax is in the hands of the enemy, and his young ward Jess has vowed to rescue him. But their jet has been shot down…