The Black Museum: Mega-City One’s museum of murder. Here in the depths of the Grand Hall of Justice lurks a warehouse of homicide where everyday objects – a teddy bear, a greetings card, a wad of munce – all are touched by murder!
The latest of 2000 AD‘s digital-only collections, Tales From The Black Museum – Volume One, is out now!
Featuring work from John Wagner, Al Ewing, Dan Abnett, Simon Spurrier, John Smith, Alan Grant, Shaun Thomas, John Ridgway, Dylan Teague, Rufus Dayglo, and Dean Ormston, Tales From The Black Museumis hosted by ghoulish curator Henry Dubble, who delves into the objects kept in Justice Department’s Black Museum, where the Judges store evidence, mementoes, and curios from notorious crimes from the city’s long and eventful history!
Tales From The Black Museum – Volume Oneis out now – available from the 2000 AD app, as DRM-free download from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
The new digital releases will be available from the 2000 AD app for Apple, Android, and Windows 10 devices, as DRM-free PDF/CBZ downloads from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
We still have another brilliant digital release coming in this series of collections:
1 December – Durham Red: Born Bad – Alec Worley (w) Ben Willsher, Lee Carter (a)
Welcome to the fourth and final Regened takeover of 2021 as once again Tharg hands the editorial reins for one week over to his nephew Joko-Jargo to produce a bumper 48-page issue of 2000 AD containing a bunch of zarjaz complete stories.
Inside you’ll find Cadets Dredd and Rico getting some hands-on Lawmaster training in Full Throttle courtesy of Liam Johnson and Ben Willsher; mutant bounty hunter Middenface McNulty has brought his granny’s dog Dougal IX on the case, and the pooch isn’t going to let a criminal target escape in Strontium Dug by David Baillie and Colin MacNeil; a fame-hungry internet influencer uses time travel to gather more followers in Temporal Tantrum by Colin Harvey and Tom Newell; and two new series make their scrotnig debuts — alien buddy caper Scooter & Jinx by James Peaty and Steve Roberts, and post-apocalyptic survivor’s tale Enemy Earth by Cavan Scott and Luke Horsman.
As ever, let us know what you think of this latest raft of strips, and what you’d like to see more of. Joko Jargo will be back in 2022 with another quartet of Regened progs, and you can play a part in deciding their content! Enjoy, humes!
2000 AD Prog 2256 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 Art by Ben WillsherScript: Liam Johnson / Art: Ben Willsher / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
CADET DREDD // Full Throttle!
Mega-City One, 2076 AD. Home to over 800 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. On one side is the polluted Black Atlantic, and to the west is the blasted radlands of the Cursed Earth. Overcrowding in the metropolis is rife, unemployment is at ninety per cent, boredom is universal and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. CADET JOE DREDD — together with his clone-brother Rico — is a rising star in Justice Department, and will one day be its finest officer. Make no mistake, he is the Law!
Script: James Peaty / Art: Steve Roberts / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland
SCOOTER & JINX // New this Prog!
Eco-Point, a space station out near the Daedalus Spiral, is a place where all manner of species from across the galaxy congregate as they pass through on their various journeys. Mondo’s Mektail Bar is a favourite watering hole for the hungry and thirsty traveller, and waitress Scooter Occultatum is expecting a quiet afternoon’s business — but then again she wasn’t anticipating Jinx Calhoun to be amongst the customers, a rogue and a thief, who has more than enough secrets of his own. Not least the gangsters that are on his tail, who want to get their hands on something Jinx has stolen. The pair are about to cross paths in a very explosive fashion…
Script: Cavan Scott / Art: Luke Horsman / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Jim Campbell
ENEMY EARTH // The Bunker!
Perhaps mankind should’ve expected it, given the destruction humanity has wrought upon the planet Earth. Acres of forests bulldozed, waterways polluted, animal life driven to extinction — there was always going to be a point in which the world decided that enough was enough, and Mother Nature would turn against the people that lived upon its surface and treated it so disrespectfully. So it came without warning — when Earth’s flora and fauna mutated and suddenly started attacking everyone. Quickly, civilisation crumbled as systems of government, TV and the internet all collapsed, leaving survivors to fend for themselves…
Script: Colin Harvey / Art: Tom Newell / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Simon Bowland
TIME TWISTERS // Temporal Tantrum!
Forget what you think you understand, Earthlets, about your species’ limited notion of time. Take nothing for granted when it comes to human history, or an unknowable future — the process of time can be broken, bent back on itself, or even sent in entirely the wrong direction. These complete head-spinning tales warp the very fabric of chronology itself, and established events can be changed by the unwary dabbler in time travel. Take, for example, the case of Garzan Tarfett, an internet influencer, whose vast army followers hang on her every word (which she is, of course, very keen to monetise). Hungry for more fame, she heads into the past…
Script: David Baillie / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
STRONTIUM DUG // New this Prog!
Following the Great Atom War of 2150, many of the survivors were mutated by the radioactive Strontium 90 fallout, creating an underclass despised and feared by the ‘norms’. These mutants were forced to live in ghettos, and the only job open to them was bounty hunting as Search/Destroy agents. The most famous of these so-called STRONTIUM DOGs is Johnny Alpha, who was regularly accompanied on missions by friend and fellow mutant Archibald ‘Middenface’ McNulty. Now, as McNulty has his own quarry to chase — a criminal known as Steeds Cryptoplex — he’s brought with him his granny’s dog, Dougal IX…
Three stories wrap up this issue, Terrans — there’s a desperate bid to escape an imploding Atlantis in the gripping final chapter of Judge Dredd: The Hard Way from the Williams, Wyatt and Lynch droids; Roger Langridge and Brett Parson bring Pandora Perfect’s sausage moon-based adventure to a meaty climax; and The Diaboliks’ escapades in Rome come to a close, but we’ll be joining Solomon Ravne in London Calling in Prog 2257 as Dom Reardon takes over from Antonio Fuso to collaborate with Gordon Rennie on the next instalment!
Meanwhile, The Out and Scarlet Traces will be taking a break for a week for next prog is 2021’s fourth Regened takeover as Joko-Jargo gatecrashes the Command Module to deliver another bumper all-ages special.
He’s pulled together a zarjaz line-up of strips — Cadet Dredd hits the accelerator in Full Throttle by Liam Johnson and Ben Willsher; nature turns nasty in Cavan Scott and Luke Horsman’s Enemy Earth; Scooter & Jinx are aliens on the run, courtesy of James Peaty and Steve Roberts; and Middenface McNulty’s pup is on the case in Strontium Dug by David Baillie and Colin MacNeil!
2000 AD Prog 2255 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 Art by Alex RonaldScript: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // The Hard Way // Part Six!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Home to over 160 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland that is the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal an violent 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! Now crime-boss La Reine Rouge has hired a band of mercenaries to take out Maitland on Atlantis…
Script: Gordon Rennie/ Art: Antonio Fuso / Letters: Jim Campbell
THE DIABOLIKS // Arrivederci Roma // Part Six!
Solomon Ravne and Jennifer Simmons were once part of Caballistics, Inc., a private paranormal troubleshooting outfit put together by reclusive rock star Ethan Kostabi. Jennifer, however, was thrown into Hell, and became possessed by a demon. After Caballistics was disbanded with the death of Kostabi, Ravne and Jenny became a couple, and are now working on behalf of the Malleus. Now, Jenny is freeing the ‘living books’ the Vatican has been keeping…
Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland
SCARLET TRACES // Storm Front // Part Six!
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 are on the attack, and Jupiter has come to Earth’s aid…
Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland
PANDORA PERFECT // Mystery Moon // Part Six!
Earth, the far future. No felon is more notorious than Pandora Perez — burglar, safe-cracker, armed bandit and all-round career criminal. Just when the authorities thought that they’d finally managed to incarcerate her, her loyal robot assistant Gort came to her rescue and succeeded in breaking her out of her cell. Now, after being set up by Bartleby Spugg, she’s rescuing her droid pal from Spugg’s sausage moon…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
THE OUT // Book Two // Part Six!
The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has lost track of how far she is from home, but regardless she keeps going, accompanied by her sentient flatspace bag, seeking other ex-pat humans…
We’re very excited to share a preview ofthe next title in our series of digital-only 2000 AD collections,Tales From The Black Museum – Volume One, which includes work from John Wagner, Al Ewing, Dan Abnett, Simon Spurrier, John Smith, Alan Grant, Shaun Thomas, John Ridgway, Dylan Teague, Rufus Dayglo, and Dean Ormston.
Created by John Wagner and Shaun Thomas, Tales From The Black Museumis hosted by ghoulish curator Henry Dubble, who delves into the objects kept in Justice Department’s Black Museum, where the Judges store evidence, mementoes, and curios from notorious crimes from the city’s long and eventful history!
You can check out the first four pages of Tales From The Black Museum – Volume Onebelow, and it’s out on November 3rd – available from the 2000 AD app, as DRM-free download from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
The new digital releases will be available from the 2000 AD app for Apple, Android, and Windows 10 devices, as DRM-free PDF/CBZ downloads from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
We still have another brilliant digital release coming in this series of collections:
1 December Durham Red: Born Bad – Alec Worley (w) Ben Willsher, Lee Carter (a)
If you want Thrills, Terrans, guaranteed to shatter your senses and rewire your imagination-circuits, then you’ve come to the right place — within these scrotnig pages you’ll find high-octane action in Judge Dredd, cosmic comedy in Pandora Perfect, deep-space destruction in Scarlet Traces, demonic double-dealing in The Diaboliks and interplanetary antics in The Out.
If that ghafflebette roster doesn’t leave you laid out, reeling from the diode-frying zarjazness of it all, then it sounds like you need an upgrade — or maybe an injection of the Judge Dredd Megazine, which, as luck would have it, has a new issue out this very week, packed with the kind of Mega-City mayhem we know you Squaxx crave.
So don’t miss Meg 437 for you’ll find inside a complete Dredd thriller from Ken Niemand and Colin MacNeil as well as a Tale From the Black Museum by David Barnett and Stewart Moore alongside the penultimate parts of Devlin Waugh, Angelic and The Returners.
As well as that, there’s chats with Roger Langridge and Brett Parson, and a look at the Fleetway Files, Hibernia Press’s new imprint collecting the gems of yesteryear. Grab it, humes!
2000 AD Prog 2254 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 Art by Mark HarrisonScript: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // The Hard Way // Part Five!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Home to over 160 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland that is the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal an violent 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! Now crime-boss La Reine Rouge has hired a band of mercenaries to take out Maitland on Atlantis…
Script: Gordon Rennie/ Art: Antonio Fuso / Letters: Jim Campbell
THE DIABOLIKS // Arrivederci Roma // Part Five!
Solomon Ravne and Jennifer Simmons were once part of Caballistics, Inc., a private paranormal troubleshooting outfit put together by reclusive rock star Ethan Kostabi. Jennifer, however, was thrown into Hell, and became possessed by a demon. After Caballistics was disbanded with the death of Kostabi, Ravne and Jenny became a couple, and are now working on behalf of the Malleus. Now, Jenny is freeing the ‘living books’ the Vatican has been keeping…
Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland
SCARLET TRACES // Storm Front // Part Five!
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 are on the attack, and Jupiter has come to Earth’s aid…
Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland
PANDORA PERFECT // Mystery Moon // Part Five!
Earth, the far future. No felon is more notorious than Pandora Perez — burglar, safe-cracker, armed bandit and all-round career criminal. Just when the authorities thought that they’d finally managed to incarcerate her, her loyal robot assistant Gort came to her rescue and succeeded in breaking her out of her cell. Now, after being set up by Bartleby Spugg, she’s entered his sausage moon to rescue her droid pal…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
THE OUT // Book Two // Part Five!
The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has lost track of how far she is from home, but regardless she keeps going, accompanied by her sentient flatspace bag, seeking other ex-pat humans…
It’s that time of the week again, Thrill-seekers, when you can temporarily put aside the pressures and problems of everyday reality and escape into the future-shocked worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
Within these ghafflebette pages you’ll find undersea action in Judge Dredd, oddball antics on the fringes of the universe in The Out, global destruction in Scarlet Traces, unholy heists in the heart of the Vatican in The Diaboliks, and explosive prison escapes in the anarchic Pandora Perfect — what a line-up to feed every corner of your fevered imaginations!
In three short weeks Tharg — or rather his nephew Joko-Jargo — will be expanding the House of Tharg once again with the fourth and final (for 2021) Regened issue, taking over Prog 2256.
Alongside the regulars like Cadet Dredd and Future Shocks, you’ll be introduced to two new strips in the shape of Enemy Earth and Scooter & Jinx, which, should they prove popular, could well be joining our pool of characters for more appearances, much like the notorious Pandora.
Let us know, as ever, via input@2000ADonline.com, what you think of ‘em!
2000 AD Prog 2253 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 Art by D’IsraeliScript: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // The Hard Way // Part Four!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Home to over 160 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland that is the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal an violent 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! Now crime-boss La Reine Rouge has hired a band of mercenaries to take out Maitland on Atlantis…
Script: Gordon Rennie/ Art: Antonio Fuso / Letters: Jim Campbell
THE DIABOLIKS // Arrivederci Roma // Part Four!
Solomon Ravne and Jennifer Simmons were once part of Caballistics, Inc., a private paranormal troubleshooting outfit put together by reclusive rock star Ethan Kostabi. Jennifer, however, was thrown into Hell, and became possessed by a demon. After Caballistics was disbanded with the death of Kostabi, Ravne and Jenny became a couple, and are now working on behalf of the Malleus. Now, Jenny and her comrades are freeing ‘living books’ from the Vatican…
Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland
SCARLET TRACES // Storm Front // Part Four!
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 are on the attack, and Earth is seeking allies in Jupiter…
Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland
PANDORA PERFECT // Mystery Moon // Part Four!
Earth, the far future. No felon is more wanted than the nefarious Pandora Perez — burglar, safe-cracker, armed bandit and all-round career criminal. Just when the authorities thought that they’d finally managed to incarcerate her, her loyal robot assistant Gort came to her rescue and succeeded in breaking her out of her cell. As a wanted woman, she’s looking for a way to lie low — but Bartleby Spugg has set her up…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
THE OUT // Book Two // Part Four!
The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has lost track of how far she is from home, but regardless she keeps going, accompanied by her sentient flatspace bag, seeking other ex-pat humans…
Welcome to your latest salvo of Thrilltastic zarjazness courtesy of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic as our autumn attack gathers pace — inside you’ll find non-stop cosmic action and adventure from Judge Dredd, The Out, Pandora Perfect, Scarlet Traces and The Diaboliks, guaranteed as ever to rewire your cranial circuits.
This awesome issue is joined on the shelves this week by a new special from the Treasury of British Comics stable — the Monster Fun Halloween Spooktacular, which features new takes on the title’s classic characters by the current generation of creators. Thus within its forty-eight pages you’ll find Cavan Scott and John Lucas on Frankie Stein, Alec Worley and Tiernen Trevallion on Kid Kong, Lizzie Boyle and Abigail Bulmer on Gums, and many, many more.
Pass it to the little monsters in your life, and it’ll keep them entertained for hours! But that’s not all — it heralds the start of the next publishing venture from Rebellion, namely a bi-monthly Monster Fun ongoing anthology title starting in spring 2022.
Head over to monsterfun.co.uk for all the info and subscription details, humes!
2000 AD Prog 2252 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 Art by Cliff Robinson and Dylan TeagueScript: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // The Hard Way // Part THREE!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Home to over 160 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland that is the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal an violent 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! Now Euro crime-boss La Reine Rouge has hired a band of mercenaries to take out Maitland..
Script: Gordon Rennie/ Art: Antonio Fuso / Letters: Jim Campbell
THE DIABOLIKS // Arrivederci Roma // Part Three!
Solomon Ravne and Jennifer Simmons were once part of Caballistics, Inc., a private paranormal troubleshooting outfit put together by reclusive rock star Ethan Kostabi. Jennifer, however, was thrown into Hell, and became possessed by a demon. After Caballistics was disbanded with the death of Kostabi, Ravne and Jenny became a couple, and are now working on behalf of the Malleus. Now, Jenny has acquired a specific unholy item — but it’s a child…
Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland
SCARLET TRACES // Storm Front // Part Three!
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 are on the attack, and Earth is seeking allies in Jupiter…
Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland
PANDORA PERFECT // Mystery Moon // Part Three!
Earth, the far future. No felon is more wanted than the nefarious Pandora Perez — burglar, safe-cracker, armed bandit and all-round career criminal. Just when the authorities thought that they’d finally managed to incarcerate her, her loyal robot assistant Gort came to her rescue and succeeded in breaking her out of her cell. As a wanted woman, she’s looking for a way to lie low — and the fabled Wonga diamond may be the answer…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
THE OUT // Book Two // Part Three!
The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has lost track of how far she is from home, but regardless she keeps going, accompanied by her sentient flatspace bag, seeking other ex-pat humans…
Dark Justice: Torture Gardenby David Hine and Nick Percival is out now!
Whether DRM-free digital from 2000AD.com, through the 2000 AD app, or on your Amazon Kindle device, download the latest digital only collection from the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!
The Dark Judges Death, Fire, Fear and Mortis have landed on the remote Mega-City colony Dominion. Now a few survivors must fight to survive, as the Dark Judges have transformed their colony into a necropolis and their loved ones into an army of zombies…
Collected into a digital-only graphic novel for the first time, this series stars fan favourite villains the Dark Judges in a chilling storyline, with sensational artwork by Nick Percival.
You can check out the first four pages of Dark Justice: Torture Garden below. It’s available from the 2000 AD app, as DRM-free download from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
The new digital releases will be available from the 2000 AD app for Apple, Android, and Windows 10 devices, as DRM-free PDF/CBZ downloads from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
We have more brilliant digital releases coming in this series of collections, the full list includes:
3 November – Tales from the Black Museum: Volume One – including John Wagner, Al Ewing, Dan Abnett, Simon Spurrier, John Smith, Alan Grant (w) Shaun Thomas, John Ridgway, Dylan Teague, Rufus Dayglo, Dean Ormston (a)
1 December Durham Red: Born Bad – Alec Worley (w) Ben Willsher, Lee Carter (a)
We trust your Thrill-circuits have suitably recovered from last week’s ghafflebette jumping-on prog, Terrans, and you’re ready for more scintillating sci-fi to galvanise your imaginations.
Within you’ll find the scrotnig second chapters of Judge Dredd: The Hard Way, Scarlet Traces: Storm Front, Pandora Perfect: Mystery Moon, The Diaboliks: Arrivederci Roma and The Out Book Two, brought to you, as ever, by Tharg’s feverishly busy creator-bots, working through the Great Lube Crisis (see the Damage Report for all the essential updates) like droids possessed.
Given the level of maintenance that the mek-minions require — some are over forty years old now, and are for ever popping a transistor — we have unfortunately had to raise the cover price from this issue by fifteen pence, taking into account the shortage of oil and replacement flanges, not to mention the rising costs of shuttle deliveries.
We trust, however, you’ll take one look at the contents of this Mighty Organ and believe the extra groats are worth it — but why not head over to shop.2000AD.com and investigate taking out a subscription? You’ll save money and receive zarjaz incentives to boot!
2000 AD Prog 2251 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 Art by Mark HarrisonScript: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // The Hard Way // Part Two!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Home to over 160 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland that is the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal an violent 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! Now Euro crime-boss La Reine Rouge has hired a band of mercenaries to take out Maitland..
Script: Gordon Rennie/ Art: Antonio Fuso / Letters: Jim Campbell
THE DIABOLIKS // Arrivederci Roma // Part Two!
Solomon Ravne and Jennifer Simmons were once part of Caballistics, Inc., a private paranormal troubleshooting outfit put together by reclusive rock star Ethan Kostabi. Jennifer, however, was thrown into Hell, and became possessed by a demon. After Caballistics was disbanded with the death of Kostabi, Ravne and Jenny became a couple, and are now working on behalf of the Malleus. Now, Jenny has been tasked with acquiring a specific unholy item…
Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Silvia Califano / Letters: Simon Bowland
SCARLET TRACES // Storm Front // Part Two!
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 are on the attack, and Earth is seeking allies in Jupiter…
Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland
PANDORA PERFECT // Mystery Moon // Part Two!
Earth, the far future. No felon is more wanted than the nefarious Pandora Perez — burglar, safe-cracker, armed bandit and all-round career criminal. Just when the authorities thought that they’d finally managed to incarcerate her, her loyal robot assistant Gort came to her rescue and succeeded in breaking her out of her cell. As a wanted woman, she’s looking for a way to lie low — and the fabled Wonga diamond may be the answer…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
THE OUT // Book Two // Part Two!
The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has lost track of how far she is from home, but regardless she keeps going, accompanied by her sentient flatspace bag, seeking other ex-pat humans…
We’re very excited to share a preview ofthe next title in our series of digital-only 2000 AD collections,Dark Justice: Torture Gardenby David Hine and Nick Percival!
The Dark Judges Death, Fire, Fear and Mortis have landed on the remote Mega-City colony Dominion. Now a few survivors must fight to survive, as the Dark Judges have transformed their colony into a necropolis and their loved ones into an army of zombies…
Collected into a digital-only graphic novel for the first time, this series stars fan favourite villains the Dark Judges in a chilling storyline, with sensational artwork by Nick Percival.
You can check out the first four pages of Dark Justice: Torture Garden below, and it’s out on October 6th – available from the 2000 AD app, as DRM-free download from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
The new digital releases will be available from the 2000 AD app for Apple, Android, and Windows 10 devices, as DRM-free PDF/CBZ downloads from the 2000 AD webshop, and on Amazon Kindle devices.
We have more brilliant digital releases coming in this series of collections, the full list includes:
3 November – Tales from the Black Museum: Volume One – including John Wagner, Al Ewing, Dan Abnett, Simon Spurrier, John Smith, Alan Grant (w) Shaun Thomas, John Ridgway, Dylan Teague, Rufus Dayglo, Dean Ormston (a)
1 December Durham Red: Born Bad – Alec Worley (w) Ben Willsher, Lee Carter (a)
