Comics

OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2113

9th January 2019

Welcome to the worlds of tomorrow — 2000 AD Prog 2113 is out now!

It’s the second prog of 2019, and while you humes are no doubt staggering back into your routines after all that New Year jollity, you know you can rely upon the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic to keep supplying the Thrill-power even through the dark days of early
January!

Brink, Fiends of the Western Front, Skip Tracer, The Scorched Zone and a new Judge Dredd story in the shape of ‘Block Buds’ (with art from Jeff Anderson, returning to the lawman for the first time since 1993!) are here to give you Squaxx that glow of zarjazness that will light up any winter evening!

2000 AD Prog 2113 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

Cover by Patrick Goddard (a) Jim Boswell (c)

JUDGE DREDD // BLOCK BUDS
by Rory McConville (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jim Boswell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to over 100 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and crime is rampant. Tensions rest on a knife-edge and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

BRINK // HIGH SOCIETY
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 wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. Bridget Kurtis,
investigator with the Habitat Security Division, has gone undercover on Yuliya Habitat
to look into sect activity, but she’s been discovered and held at gun-point…

SKIP TRACER // LOUDER THAN BOMBS
by James Peaty (w) Paul Marshall (a) Dylan Teague (c) Ellie De Ville (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 wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned
tracker, with powerful psi-abilities. Now, Blake has foiled a suicide bombing…

THARG’S 3RILLERS: THE SCORCHED ZONE
by Eddie Robson (w) Nick Brokenshire (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! By the mid twenty-first century climate change has rendered the area between the tropics uninhabitable through rising temperatures. Now, Beatriz Da Silva and her UN team, investigating sabotaged polariser robots in Brasilia, have come under attack from zombies…

FIENDS OF THE WESTERN FRONT
by Ian Edginton (w) Tiernen Trevallion (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he and his comrades encountered the terrifying Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon, who feasted on the blood of their Russian enemies. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to encounter Constanta on the battlefield — the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, Constanta is at the mercy of the Black Max, who is creating his own bat-people from vampires…