OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2124
27th March 2019
Borag Thungg, Earthlets, and welcome to this week’s scrotnig delights of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!
2000 AD Prog 2124 is out now, and it’s a real doozy!
Max Normal – how old were you when the Pinstripe Freak first swaggered into the pages of Judge Dredd?
Perhaps you’re a long-standing Squaxx dek Thargo, and you were picking up the prog back in 1977 when Max made his debut appearance in The Comic Pusher story. Maybe you remember him playing an integral part in Block Mania, or you might recall his solo strips in the annuals of the early eighties.
Since those heady days, Mega-City’s coolest cat kind of dropped out of the scene but he hasn’t been forgotten — he made something of a comeback in the Lenny Zero story Zero’s 7 in 2012, and then we caught up with the greying narc in No Comics For Old Men by Guy Adams and Ben Willsher in the Xmas issue Prog 2015.
Now, starting this prog, script-droid Adams has crafted a whole new series for Max, with art provided by Dan Cornwell, as we finally learn the origins of the shampagne-swilling shuggy champion — don’t miss a single episode, Thrill-groovers!
Elsewhere, we have the start of a new Dredd story in Unearthed, scripted by the Williams and Weston droids and drawn by Patrick Goddard, more Kingmaker and Survival Geeks, plus the penultimate part of the nail-chewingly tense Grey Area — enjoy!
2000 AD Prog 2123 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!
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Cover by Jon Davis-Hunt
JUDGE DREDD // UNEARTHED
By Rob Williams & Chris Weston (w) Patrick Goddard (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. The populace is crammed into vast city blocks, and unemployment is rife, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!
KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS
Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…
SURVIVAL GEEKS // DUNGEONS & DATING (BASIC)
Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby (w) Neil Googe (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Somewhere in the outer limits of space/time, plunging through the planes of reality, is what looks like a regular suburban two-up two-down, but it is in fact powered by misfiring transdimensional technology. Inside live sci-fi obsessives Clive, Rufus and Simon, plus reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond. Now, they’ve entered a role-playing simulation of Clive’s invention…
MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES
Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, but the city’s coolest cat can still get himself into trouble, especially with ape pal Vito…
GREY AREA // MAKING HISTORY
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 Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Now, a blacktops team has gone rogue and launched a ‘God Star’ weapon at the Congruence…
