Comics

OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2114

16th January 2019

All the Thrills you could ever want are right here, compressed into a handy magazine size — or a downloadable file for you digital readers — and ready to unleash its zarjaz contents direct into your cerebral cortexes!

Within this ghafflebette Prog you’ll find the concluding chapters of both the current Judge Dredd tale ‘Block Buds’ and the 3riller ‘The Scorched Zone’, plus the latest instalments of Skip Tracer, Brink and Fiends of the Western Front.

Once your brain matter has fully assimilated the stories, and your imaginations truly fired up, it’ll keep your Thrill-circuits buzzing for the following seven days — ready for next week’s issue!

2000 AD Prog 2114 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 Neil Roberts

JUDGE DREDD // BLOCK BUDS
by Rory McConville (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jim Boswell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 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! Now, blocks have been given their own hologram mascots in a bid to foster good relations, but problems have arisen…

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, and is now about to confront the ringleaders behind it…

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 must investigate a terrorist cell…

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…