We’re very excited to share a preview ofthe next title in our series of digital-only 2000 AD collections,Bad City Blue by Alan Grant and Robin Smith!
Built into an asteroid and floating in space, Bader City is a crumbling, decaying ghetto controlled by armed gangs. The only kind of order is kept by guys like Blue, a trouble-shooting ‘button man’ who enforces order at the behest of the top-siders.
He thinks he’s saving the city for ‘decent folk’- but unfortunately for him, it looks like the elite he serves is not as benevolent as he once thought. Created by writer Alan Grant and artist Robin Smith, Bad City Blue is a bleak highlight from the mid 1980s, full of class warfare, gritty sci-fi, and big concepts.
You can check out the first four pages of Bad City Blue below, and it’s out on August 4th – 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:
1 September Firekind – John Smith (w) Paul Marshall (a)
6 October – Dark Justice: Torture Garden – David Hine (w) Nick Percival (a)
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 welcome you once again, Thrill-seekers, to the weekly brain-frazzling imagination-blaster that is the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, where the very best in graphic excitement energises your frontal lobes to the point of overload.
Within these zarjaz pages you’ll find the latest instalments of Judge Dredd, Aquila, Department K and Skip Tracer, plus the Sinister Dexter epic Bulletopia forges ahead, courtesy of Dan Abnett and Steve Yeowell, as a certain character makes his reappearance after what looked like a total-death experience…
It’s also that time of the month when your circuits are treated to a brand-new issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine, which you’ll find on Thrill-merchants’ shelves right now.
Meg 434 features the start of a new series of Angelic by Gordon Rennie and Lee Carter as the Angel Gang reimagining continues, plus there’s intrigue as a former Chief Judge is kidnapped in the Dredd thriller Project Providence, rumbles in the jungle in The Returners, hellbound escapades in Devlin Waugh, and Brit-Cit bust-ups in Diamond Dogs.
All this plus interviews with Roy Preston and Ram V, and lots more. Grab it, humes!
2000 AD Prog 2241 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 Dan CornwellScript: John Wagner / Art: John Higgins / Colours: Sally Hurst / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Now That’s What I Call Justice: All Time Top Fifty // No. 11: 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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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, an outfit called Justice Watch is executing Judges who it says killed cits…
Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
AQUILA // The Rivers of Hades //Book One // Part Four!
Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades to seek out the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Eight!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’re now helping a neighbouring reality. But a dead Locust is raising even more questions…
Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SKIP TRACER // Eden // Part Five!
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, who, after a battlefield injury, was left with powerful psi-abilities. Now, he’s been contacted by old flame Hastings…
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
SINISTER // Bulletopia Chapter Five: Its Own Devices // Part One!
Gun-sharks Finnigan SINISTER and Ramone DEXTER were the best hitmen money could buy in the future city of Downlode. Having whacked Holy Moses Tanenbaum, a ganglord from an alternate dimension, they found killing him reset the continuum, meaning no one knew who they were. But now a rogue A.I. is at large, which took control of Sinister, forcing Dexter to kill him. While Dexter flees with Carrie and Billi, Sinister has been resurrected…
Prepare for hyper-law enforcement, Terrans, as we count down the top cops in Mega-City in zarjaz new Judge Dredd story Now That’s What I Call Justice by John Wagner and John Higgins, starting within this very pulse-pounding prog.
Elsewhere, Chimpsky’s Law comes to its scrotnig finale, plus there’s more eye-scorching action in Aquila, Skip Tracer and Department K — with that little lot to consume, I believe you may be at very real risk of Thrill-power Overload, Squaxx, so ensure all necessary precautions are taken before venturing forth into the wild, wild world of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
Clothe yourselves in vacuum-sealed haz-mat suits to contain any spontaneous explosions of excitement — terminal brainstorm will almost certainly cause cranial trauma — and keep hydrating fluids to hand that can be piped in directly.
Many atomised husks have been found clutching this Mighty Organ, the sheer blazing energy emanating from the pages having burnt them from the inside out. Don’t be that hume, Earthlets, and think it won’t happen to you.
2000 AD Prog 2240 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 Toby WillsmerScript: John Wagner / Art: John Higgins / Colours: Sally Hurst / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Now That’s What I Call Justice: All Time Top Fifty // No. 11!
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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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!
Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
AQUILA // The Rivers of Hades //Book One // Part Three!
Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades to seek out the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Seven!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’re now helping a neighbouring reality. But a dead Locust is raising even more questions…
Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SKIP TRACER // Eden // Part Four!
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, who, after a battlefield injury, was left with powerful psi-abilities. Now, he’s been contacted by old flame Hastings…
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // The Talented Mr Chimpsky // Part Seven!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Late 21st-century science gave primates the ability to speak and socialise with humans, and there’s an enclave within the metropolis, Apetown, where simian citizens can live and work. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape, who has chosen to look after the human civilians in his local sector. But now, on the orbiting mansion of the Jepperson clan, he has to escape before it all falls apart…
The latest digital-only 2000 AD collection, Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fields is now available to buy on the 2000 AD webshop and app.
In this stunning historical fantasy story, travel back to Ancient Rome to meet slave-turned-gladiator-turned-collector-of-souls Aquila!
A gladiator and slave who joined Spartacus’s failed revolt and was crucified, Aquila called out for vengeance during his slow and painful death. He was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. But Aquila has discovered he is by no means alone in serving Ammit’s thirst for souls, and wants to be released from her grasp – but will his quest devour his very soul?
Written by Gordon Rennie, with art by Paul Davidson and Patrick Goddard, this is swords and sorcery with a historical twist, a violent and bloody descent through the ages with the undying assassin and his compatriot Felix embarking on a mission that may shake the foundations of hell itself!
Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fields is available now 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:
4 August Bad City Blue – Alan Grant (w) Robin Smith (a)
1 September Firekind – John Smith (w) Paul Marshall (a)
6 October – Dark Justice: Torture Garden – David Hine (w) Nick Percival (a)
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)
Welcome, Terrans, to your weekly blast of circuit-scorching zarjazness, and we have another scintillating slice of scrotnig sci-fi to energise your imaginations.
Within these pages you’ll find the finale to current Dredd thriller Removal Man (fear not, the Wagner script-bot will be back next prog, teaming up with John Higgins for Now That’s What I Call Justice) plus the latest instalments of Aquila, Skip Tracer, Chimpsky’s Law and Department K.
However, if such a ghafflebette line-up is still not enough to satiate your Thrill-hungry receptors, then may we direct your attention to this year’s 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special, which is on sale right now.
This 48-page Dreddworld one-off, plotted by writers Mike Carroll and Maura McHugh, features a series of interconnected stories starring not just the future lawman but also Anderson, Armitage, Chopper, Devlin Waugh, Judge-Inspector Inaba and Cursed Earth Koburn, scripted and drawn by a host of creators including David Baillie, Ben Willsher, Tom Foster, Robin Smith, Anna Morozova, Liam Johnson, Neil Googe, Karl Stock and James Newell. Don’t miss it, Squaxx!
2000 AD Prog 2239 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 Stewart K. MooreScript: John Wagner / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Removal Man // 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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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, the future cop is on the trail of hitman Bick Bickford..
Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
AQUILA // The Rivers of Hades //Book One // Part Two!
Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades to seek out the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady/ Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Six!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’re now helping a neighbouring reality. But a dead Locust is raising even more questions…
Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SKIP TRACER // Eden // Part Three!
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, who, after a battlefield injury, was left with powerful psi-abilities. Now, he’s been contacted by old flame Hastings…
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // The Talented Mr Chimpsky // Part Six!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Late 21st-century science gave primates the ability to speak and socialise with humans, and there’s an enclave within the metropolis, Apetown, where simian citizens can live and work. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape, who has chosen to look after the human civilians in his local sector. But now, on the orbiting mansion of the Jepperson clan, he’s come face to face with his nemesis…
2000 AD Prog 2238 is out now! Featuring more new Judge Dredd, Skip Tracer, Department K and Chimpsky’s Law, plus the start of a brand new series of Aquila!
As we power out of June, there’s no sign of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic cooling down — just look at the scorching stories contained within, and you’ll understand why this pulse-pounding publication is considered volatile material.
Judge Dredd is closing in on hitman Bick Bickford in Removal Man by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; things take a turn for the even weirder in Department K: Cosmic Chaos by Rory McConville and Dan Cornwell; Noam Chimpsky finally comes face to face with the true villain in Chimpsky’s Law by Ken Niemand and PJ Holden; Nolan Blake sets out to find Hastings in Skip Tracer: Eden by James Peaty and Paul Marshall; and Gordon Rennie and Patrick Goddard reunite for a new series of Aquila starting this very issue.
Picking up where we left off in The Burning Fields (Progs 2174-2181), Aquila, Felix and Scarabatus have been reborn into the underworld as they track down the spirit of the Emperor Nero, whom they believe knows the location of Ammit the devourer, Aquila’s demon mistress.
But it’s not going to be an easy journey, as they’ll soon discover in the first book of The Rivers of Hades… Enjoy, Squaxx, enjoy!
2000 AD Prog 2238 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: John Wagner / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Removal Man // 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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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, hitman Bick Bickford is trying to cover his tracks…
Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
AQUILA // The Rivers of Hades //Book One // Part One!
Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades to seek out the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady/ Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Five!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’re now helping a neighbouring reality. But investigating a dead Locust causes Afua to disappear…
Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SKIP TRACER // Eden // Part Two!
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, who, after a battlefield injury, was left with powerful psi-abilities. Now, he’s been contacted by old flame Hastings…
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // The Talented Mr Chimpsky // Part Five!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Late 21st-century science gave primates the ability to speak and socialise with humans, and there’s an enclave within the metropolis, Apetown, where simian citizens can live and work. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape, who has chosen to look after the human civilians in his local sector. But now he’s working on an orbital mansion, where there’s been a gathering of the Jepperson family…
We’re very excited to share a preview ofthe next title in our series of digital-only 2000 AD collections, Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fields by Gordon Rennie, Paul Davidson and Patrick Goddard!
In this stunning historical fantasy story, we travel back to Ancient Rome to find slave-turned-gladiator Aquila. Having cried out to the gods for vengeance during his slow and painful death, and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. But Aquila has discovered he is by no means alone in serving Ammit’s thirst for souls, and wants to be released from her hold…
You can check out the first four pages of Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fieldsbelow, and it’s out on July 7th – 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:
4 August Bad City Blue – Alan Grant (w) Robin Smith (a)
1 September Firekind – John Smith (w) Paul Marshall (a)
6 October – Dark Justice: Torture Garden – David Hine (w) Nick Percival (a)
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)
Welcome back to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Terrans, your weekly hit of ghafflebette sci-fi and fantasy, where you’ll be transported — courtesy of our enormously inventive creator-meks — to worlds on the very edge of the imagination.
Soldier turned tracker Nolan Blake is back this prog for a new series of Skip Tracer by the regular team of James Peaty and Paul Marshall, and Mechastopheles reaches the final episode of The Hunting Party, but the Rennie droid will be back next issue, collaborating with Patrick Goddard on Aquila: The Rivers of Hades.
Elsewhere, there’s more action and adventure in Judge Dredd, Department K and Chimpsky’s Law, just as you humes demand it!
As ever, Joko-Jargo’s quarterly Regened progs prove a fertile talking point, with positive feedback regarding the May issue filtering through. If you’re keen to see proto-Squaxx reading more comics, then why not pick up the zarjaz Tammy & Jinty Remixed, a graphic novel collection of the recent specials that is available now from all good Thrill-merchants and shop.2000AD.com. As an ideal gateway into four-colour Thrill-power, we heartily recommend it!
2000 AD Prog 2237 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 Dave KendallScript: John Wagner / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Removal Man // 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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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, hitman Bick Bickford has taken out a target under Dredd’s nose…
Script: Gordon Rennie & Lawrence Rennie / Art: Boo Cook / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
MECHASTOPHELES // The Hunting Party // Part Four!
It is over a year since the Fall, when the demons rose and society collapsed. A band of human survivors have sought refuge in a demonically powered robot called MECHASTOPHELES, and they use this infernal ark as a means to seek sanctuary, searching for a safe haven away from the creatures that now stalk the land. But the demon bound to the mek, Apollyoneth Morga, has enemies in Hell too…
Script: Rory McConville / Art:Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady/ Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Four!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’re now helping a neighbouring reality, which is being attacked by raiders entering through a rift…
Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SKIP TRACER // Eden // Part One!
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, who, after a battlefield injury, was left with powerful psi-abilities…
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // The Talented Mr Chimpsky // Part Four!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Late 21st-century science gave primates the ability to speak and socialise with humans, and there’s an enclave within the metropolis, Apetown, where simian citizens can live and work. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape, who has chosen to look after the human civilians in his local sector. But now he’s working on an orbital mansion, where there’s been a gathering of the Jepperson family…
the Command Module is positively thrumming with cosmic energy as we channel more zarjazness into your brainpans — this week, we have the start of a scrotnig new case for Judge Dredd in Removal Man from John Wagner and Colin MacNeil, plus there’s the latest instalments of Mechastopheles, Department K and Chimpsky’s Law, and the nerve-jangling finale for the current series of Feral & Foe. Suffice to say, an absolutely stonking prog, guaranteed to get your Thrill-circuits all a-quiver!
But that’s not all, Terrans — also out right now is Judge Dredd Megazine 433, and behind the ghafflebette wraparound cover by Nick Percival you’ll find the climax to the Dark Judges epic Deliverance, the start of a new Dredd story, Project Providence, by Rory McConville and Staz Johnson, plus Devlin Waugh, Diamond Dogs and The Returners.
Add to that chats with the creative teams behind this summer’s specials — Black Beth (out next week!) and the 2021 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special (out 7 July!) — and a Mechastopheles mini-GN, and it’s another essential purchase from the House of Tharg.
How do we keep in doing it? Trade secret, I’m afraid, humes…
2000 AD Prog 2236 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 Dylan TeagueScript: John Wagner / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Removal Man // Part One!
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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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!
Script: Gordon Rennie & Lawrence Rennie / Art: Boo Cook / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
MECHASTOPHELES // The Hunting Party // Part Three!
It is over a year since the Fall, when the demons rose and society collapsed. A band of human survivors have sought refuge in a demonically powered robot called MECHASTOPHELES, and they use this infernal ark as a means to seek sanctuary, searching for a safe haven away from the creatures that now stalk the land. But the demon bound to the mek, Apollyoneth Morga, has enemies in Hell too…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady/ Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Three!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’re now helping a neighbouring reality, which is being attacked by raiders entering through a rift…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Twelve!
It is five years after the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve returned to Golgone the Necromancer, having retrieved the Chalice of Malice…
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Simon Bowland
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // The Talented Mr Chimpsky // Part Three!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Late 21st-century science gave primates the ability to speak and socialise with humans, and there’s an enclave within the metropolis, Apetown, where simian citizens can live and work. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape, who has chosen to look after the human civilians in his local sector. But now he’s working on an orbital mansion, where there’s been a gathering of the Jepperson family…
Welcome, Thrill-seeking Squaxx, to your latest jaunt to the wild edges of the imagination, courtesy of our rivet-bustingly busy creator-bots.
You’ll find within these pulse-pounding pages the scrotnig second episodes of Chimpsky’s Law, Department K and Mechastopheles, the penultimate part of Feral & Foe, and a complete Judge Dredd story from the Niemand and Teague droids.
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Is there just the right level of interdimensional anarchy in Department K to meet your needs, Terrans? Is Mechastopheles giving you the demonically powered hell-machine vibes that you demand as loyal readers of the GGC? Let us know so we can calibrate future Thrills accordingly!
Talking of future Thrills — in a fortnight, prepare to enter the underworld as Aquila returns in The Rivers of Hades by Gordon Rennie and Patrick Goddard. More immediately, be here in seven for the start of a ghafflebette new case for Dredd in Removal Man by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil. Enjoy, humes!
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Cover Art by Cliff Robinson / Cover Colours by Dylan Teague
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 known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and 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!
Script: Gordon Rennie & Lawrence Rennie / Art: Boo Cook / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
MECHASTOPHELES // The Hunting Party // Part Two!
It is over a year since the Fall, when the demons rose and society collapsed. A band of human survivors have sought refuge in a demonically powered robot called MECHASTOPHELES, and they use this infernal ark as a means to seek sanctuary, searching for a safe haven away from the creatures that now stalk the land. But the demon bound to the mek, Apollyoneth Morga, has enemies in Hell too…
Script: Rory McConville / Art:Dan Cornwell / Colours: Len O’Grady/ Letters: Simon Bowland
DEPARTMENT K // Cosmic Chaos // Part Two!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’ve now been approached by a refugee, who’s fled from a neighbouring reality seeking help…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Eleven!
It is five years after the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve returned to Golgone the Necromancer, having retrieved the Chalice of Malice…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Jim Campbell
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // The Talented Mr Chimpsky // Part Two!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Late 21st-century science gave primates the ability to speak and socialise with humans, and there’s an enclave within the metropolis, Apetown, where simian citizens can live and work. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape, who has chosen to look after the human civilians in his local sector. But now he’s received an invitation to an orbital gathering of the Jepperson family, who experimented on apes…
