Comics

OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2120

27th February 2019

Welcome, Terrans, to your weekly jolt of circuitshattering SF zarjazness, courtesy of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – 2000 AD Prog 2120!

Joining Judge Dredd, Skip Tracer, Grey Area and Jaegir this Prog is the start of another of Tharg’s 3rillers – Tooth and Nail – scripted by newly constructed scribe-bot Andi Ewington and illustrated by Staz Johnson, while we also publish the winning entry in the latest Art Stars initiative — congratulations to Evan Shipard, whose scrotnig Rogue Trooper pinup was the pick of the crop!

Remember, you too could find your work displayed amongst these hallowed pages and be paid for it to boot — go to 2000AD.com/artcomp for all the terms and conditions, and the list of social media outlets where you can see the entries!

2000 AD Prog 2120 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 Adam Brown

JUDGE DREDD // MACHINE LAW
by John Wagner (w) Colin MacNeil (a) Chris Blythe (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, his former protégé Logan has stepped up to become Chief Judge and has appointed a robot to the Council of Five…

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…

GREY AREA // ROGUE
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ET arrivals are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Captain Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Kymn and Bitch, thought KIA, were actually seconded to a black-ops unit, which they’ve now fled…

THARG’S 3RILLERS // TOOTH AND NAIL
by Andi Ewington (w) Staz Johnson (a) Abigail Bulmer (c) Simon Bowland (l)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Max Ha is having a very bad day, capped by finding himself handcuffed and beaten by mystery Russian assailants. Max is the sole survivor of a massacre that left seventeen dead, and his interrogators want to know more about the man responsible, who dragged Max into this mess…

JAEGIR // BONEGRINDER
by Gordon Rennie (w) Simon Coleby (a) Len O’Grady (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxy-wide war with the Souther forces, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals amongst her own ranks.Now, while on a mission with her team on Nu Earth, she’s taken command of Forward Firebase Gogol, otherwise known as the Bonegrinder, which is under relentless attack by the Southers…