OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2126!
10th April 2019
Welcome, Thrill-hungry humanoids, to your weekly blast of Thrill-power, courtesy of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – the only title on the shelves to give you rad-burns simply by opening the cover.
This week 2000 AD is channelling atomic levels of zarjazness, so zip up your haz-suit, don the regulation gloves and hood, and enjoy…
For starters, we’ve got the start of a scrotnig new Judge Dredd story in the shape of ‘The Long Game’ by Michael Carroll and Mark Sexton!
We’ll also be returning to Scarlet Traces, the War of the Worlds legacy series by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli. The last time we left it in the second book of ‘Cold War’ (Progs 2023-2034 – also available as a graphic novel collection!), Earth-born Venusian Ahron Shakepseare had travelled to the planet that his parents had fled in a bid to find a way to repel the Martian occupiers. But the warmongering Martians have weaponised the sun, destroying mankind’s battle fleet, and now once again are taking the fight to humanity. Nowhere on Earth is going to be safe when the Tripods return…
On top of this delicious helping on zarjazosity, there’s more Survival Geeks, Kingmaker, and Max Normal! Prepare for blazing sci-fi action, Terrans, the likes of which your eye-pods will never have processed before!
2000 AD Prog 2126 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!
Buy print edition >>
Buy digital edition >>
Download the iPad app >>
Download the Android app >>
Download the Windows 10 app >>
Buy 2000 AD in North America >>
Cover by D’Israeli
JUDGE DREDD // THE LONG GAME
By Michael Carroll (w) Mark Sexton (a) John Charles (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. With the populace crammed into vast city blocks, unemployment is rife, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force 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, and he’s now bought up old shuggy hall the Golden Pocket, a pivotal place in his childhood…
SCARLET TRACES // HOME FRONT
Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
1968. It is decades since Mars waged war on Earth, and the major nations have access to Martian-derived technology, but Britain is still recovering from Martian bombardment in the 1940s, when much of the south of England was destroyed. This was followed by the arrival in the 1950s of two million Venusians, seeking refuge from Martian occupation. Now, the Martians have weaponised the sun, and are on the attack…
