The latest title in 2000 AD‘s series of digital-only collections, John Smith and Paul Peart’s Slaughter Bowl is a no-holds-barred, riot of reptilian rampage!
It’s the worst day of Stanley Modest’s life. He’s been fired, no-one likes him, and the doctors want to pull the plug on his dangerously ill wife. To top it all off the police find hundreds of bodies buried in his house – including his own children!
Although he protests his innocence he is convicted and ends up on death row.
For Stanley, there is only one way out – the Slaughter Bowl! A deadly battle royale where criminals riding dinosaurs attempt to annihilate each other for cash and prizes!
Collected in digital-only graphic novel form for the first time, this unforgettable strip was part of 2000 AD’s infamous ‘Summer Offensive’ in 1993, when writers Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, and John Smith were let loose to rewrite the recipe for thrill-power with an all-out assault on the senses!
Will Stanley survive? Will he earn enough for his wife’s life-saving surgery? And where did all those bodies come from? Find out for yourself in Slaughter Bowl!
And don’t forget – if you purchase a discounted digital product from the 2000 AD webshop you can read it in the 2000 AD app (and vice versa) when you use the same registration/log-in details for both!
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:
7 July Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fields – Gordon Rennie (w) Paul Davidson, Patrick Goddard (a)
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)
2000 AD Prog 2234 is out now! Featuring more new Feral & Foe, plus brand new Judge Dredd, Mechastopheles, Department K and Chimpsky’s Law!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2234 is OUT NOW!
We’re back, Squaxx, after last week’s all-ages divergence, and there’s no less than four new stories to get your Terran teeth into.
Alongside Feral & Foe, you’ll find within these pages the start of the first full-length series for Regened hit Department K, with art-bot Dan Cornwell joining regular writer Rory McConville, plus the Niemand and Holden droids reunite for Noam Chimpsky’s first solo strip.
Add to that the return of demonic robot Mechastopheles from the Two Rennies and Boo Cook (if you missed the earlier series, make sure you catch the reprint in Meg 433, out 16 June), and a complete Dredd thriller from Chris Weston, marking the end of a particular aspect of JD history, and it’s a seriously scrotnig line-up!
But it’s been a time of sadness in the 2000 AD community too as we heard the news last month that Dave Evans (often credited as Bolt-01) had died. Editor of 2000 AD fanzines Zarjaz, Dogbreath and Futurequake, he was familiar face at conventions, and as friendly a fan as you could hope to meet.
His unswerving dedication to the small-press scene was huge, and he will be much missed. RIP, Bolt.
2000 AD Prog 2234 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!
Script: Chris Weston / Art: Chris Weston / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // Adios, Rowdy Yates!
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 One!
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 One!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis, and the mysterious DEPARTMENT K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies seeking to break through the walls of reality. Headed by Judge Kirby, and comprising of intern Afua, Mechanismo droid Estabon and the alien Blackcurrant, they’ve recently returned to MC-1…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Ten!
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 One!
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 his fellow human civilians in his local sector, ensuring criminality is discouraged — often under the Judges’ noses — and people are cared for…
2000 AD Prog 2233 is out now! This special all-ages edition is jampacked with all new Cadet Dredd, Future Shocks, Anderson, Psi-Division, Pandora Perfect and Department K!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2233 is OUT NOW!
Joko-Jargo’s Uncle Tharg has once more passed him the editorial reins for the second Regened takeover of 2021, and you’ll find within a couple of strips that continue from previous instalments.
Psi-Judge Anderson, having tackled the threat of an alien incursion in her last couple of adventures, decides to confront the extra-terrestrial menace before it reaches Earth in Deep Burn by Cavan Scott and Paul Davidson; and the last time we saw Department K in Prog 2196 they were stuck between dimensions and faced a long journey home — find out how they got on in Stranded by Rory McConville and PJ Holden.
Add to that zarjaz Thrills with Cadet Dredd, courtesy of Liam Johnson and Jake Lynch, the Langridge and Parson droids’ Pandora Perfect, and a complete Future Shock from Colin Harvey and Tom Newell, and you have another scrotnig selection of circuit-scrambling stories!
If you missed any previous Regened instalments, fear not, for they are being collected up into graphic novel editions. Volume One is out now, and Volume Two is heading your way in July so pop over to shop.2000AD.com and grab a copy. That kind of concentrated Thrill-power is sure to sell out fast!
2000 AD Prog 2233 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 Neil Googe / Cover Colours by Gary Caldwell
Script: Liam Johnson / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
CADET DREDD // Lawbreaker!
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: Colin Harvey / Art: Tom Newell / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
FUTURE SHOCKS // Space Expectations!
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected. Mankind has always sought to find extra-terrestrial life in the galaxy, believing that humanity is not alone. So robots like Expectation are sent into the depths of the cosmos to seek out evidence of alien civilisations…
Script: Cavan Scott / Art: Paul Davidson / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Simon Bowland
ANDERSON, PSI DIVISION // Deep Burn!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Psi-Division is a section of Justice Department that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents — from precognition to exorcism, projection to pyrokinesis, it deals with all manner of paranormal crimes, and is often the city’s first defence against supernatural threats. Cassandra ANDERSON is Justice Department’s top telepath — warm, empathetic and often flippant, she’s not your usual Judge, and she still sees the good in the Big Meg’s citizens. Recently, she’s become aware of incursions by an alien species seeking to bring order to planet Earth. Realising that they’ll attack soon, she’s chosen to head them off in space…
Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland
PANDORA PERFECT // Night of the Guffwarbler!
Earth, the far future. While the towering starscrapers and flying cars may make this look like some idealised Utopia, crime is still a major problem, and there’s no felon 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. Despite being a wanted woman, Pandora’s still up to her usual confidence tricks, and now she’s looking to score a big payday by stealing the very rare Guffwarbler…
Script: Rory McConville / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Jim Campbell
DEPARTMENT K // Stranded!
Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Justice Dept has many divisions within it tasked with dealing with the threats that face the metropolis. The psychic personnel of Psi-Division, for example, are at the forefront in the fight against supernatural foes, while Tek-Div conducts all manner of experiments and develops advanced weaponry. The mysterious DEPARTMENT K is a branch of the latter, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies that are seeking to break through the walls of reality. Headed by Judge Kirby, the team is made up of Mechanismo robot Estabon, alien Blackcurrant and recent intern Afua, but right now they’re stuck, far from home…
We’re very excited to share a preview of Slaughter Bowl, the next title in our series of digital-only 2000 AD collections!
First appearing in Progs 842-849 as part of the 1993 Summer Offensive, this legendary, unforgettable strip features a futuristic sport where criminals ride dinosaurs while trying to gun each other down using some seriously heavy machinery.
The story follows allegedly mild-mannered Stanley Modest, who’s been convicted of mass murder, as he enters the deadly battle-royale that is the Slaughter Bowl!
You can check out the first four pages of Slaughter Bowl below, and it’s out on June 2nd – 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:
7 July Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fields – Gordon Rennie (w) Paul Davidson, Patrick Goddard (a)
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)
2000 AD Prog 2232 is out now, with more new Judge Dredd, Thistlebone, Feral & Foe, Tharg’s 3rillers and all new Tharg’s Terror Tales!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2232 is OUT NOW!
The slow-burn folk-chiller Thistlebone comes to its spine-tingling climax this prog — don’t forget to pick up the sumptuous hardback collection of the first series, Terrans, on sale now from shop.2000AD.com — and both the 3riller Symbiotic Love Triangle and Judge Dredd: Easy Money also reach their finales, in time for next week’s all-ages takeover by Tharg’s super-talented nephew Joko-Jargo.
Once again, another forty-eight pages of zarjaz complete stories, featuring Cadet Dredd, Anderson, Psi-Division, Pandora Perfect and Department K, brought to you by the creative brain-matter of Roger Langridge, Brett Parson, Cavan Scott, Paul Davidson, Rory McConville, PJ Holden, Liam Johnson, Jake Lynch, and more!
But if you’re demanding extra Thrillage right now — and frankly who isn’t? — then you’re in luck because Judge Dredd Megazine 432 hits the stands this very week, containing the start of a new arc for Devlin Waugh and the commencement of the final series for The Returners, plus the latest instalments of Dredd, Deliverance and Diamond Dogs.
2000 AD Prog 2232 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!
Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Simon Fraser / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // EASY MONEY // 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. Crime is rampant and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, heiress Aldalisa Brown has discovered her deceased parents were drugs kingpins…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Nine!
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’re on a quest for Golgone the Necromancer to retrieve the Chalice of Malice…
Script: John Tomlinson / Art: Steven Austin / Letters: Simon Bowland
THARG’S TERROR TALES // Dry Spell!
Experience the terrifying side of Thrill-power with these one-off tales from beyond the veil of sanity. Whether they be ghostly goings-on that send shivers up the spine or guts-to-the-wall splatterfests that sear the retina and paralyse the mind, nothing is what it seems in these glimpses of a terrifying realm beyond our own. Property developer Carla Solis has become a reculse after a series of mysterious deaths…
Script: T.C. Eglington / Art: Simon Davis / Letters: Simon Bowland
THISTLEBONE // POISONED ROOTS // Part Twelve!
Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, the site of her terryifying experiences at the hands of Jasper Hillman’s THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. In the process of researching for a book on the Thistlebone legend, Seema believes much of it centres around one man — Malcolm Kinniburgh…
Script: Arthur Wyatt / Art & Letters: Pye Parr
THARG’S 3RILLERS // SYMBIOTIC LOVE TRIANGLE // Part Three!
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! It’s the future, and tech has evolved to the point where nanobots called Intestinauts can be ingested to help with internal medical conditions. But when they were tasked with destroying a symbiote suit, the suit’s A.I. became bonded with I-R-404, and the pair must now work together…
2000 AD Prog 2231 is out now, with more new Judge Dredd, Thistlebone, Feral & Foe, Tharg’s 3rillers and a brand new Future Shock!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2231 is OUT NOW!
Are you suffering from the malaise of reality, Terrans? Everywhere you look, do you see injustice, political corruption, environmental catastrophe, viral infection, Instagram ‘influencers’… that’s a lot for measly humanoid brains to process without exploding in a combination of anger and frustration.
But fear not, Squaxx, for the being from Betelgeuse is here to transport you away from such real-world concerns, if perhaps only temporarily, through the power of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
Tharg and his droids and have once again concocted a zarjaz antidote to the everyday in the shape of this pulse-pounding prog, and it’s guaranteed to get your diodes buzzing — we’ve got the start of a brand new Dredd thriller from Mike Carroll and Simon Fraser in Easy Money, a complete Future Shock by John Tomlinson and Anna Morozova, the latest instalments of Feral & Foe and Symbiotic Love Triangle, and the penultimate part of the spine-chilling Thistlebone!
No other title can expand your imaginations like 2000 AD, so sit back, humes, tune out the here and now, and journey into other dimensions!
2000 AD Prog 2231 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!
Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Simon Fraser / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // EASY MONEY // 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. Crime is rampant and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Eight!
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’re on a quest for Golgone the Necromancer…
Script: John Tomlinson / Art: Anna Morozova / Letters: Simon Bowland
FUTURE SHOCKS // GOODBYE TO ZANE // Part One!
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…
Script: T.C. Eglington / Art: Simon Davis / Letters: Simon Bowland
THISTLEBONE // POISONED ROOTS // Part Eleven!
Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, the site of her terryifying experiences at the hands of Jasper Hillman’s THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. In the process of researching for a book on the Thistlebone legend, Seema believes much of it centres around one man — Malcolm Kinniburgh…
Script: Arthur Wyatt / Art & Letters: Pye Parr
THARG’S 3RILLERS // SYMBIOTIC LOVE TRIANGLE // Part Two!
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! It’s the future, and tech has evolved to the point where nanobots called Intestinauts can be ingested to help with internal medical conditions. But when they were tasked with destroying a symbiote suit, the suit’s A.I. became bonded with I-R-404, and the pair must now work together…
2000 AD Prog 2230 is out now, with more new Judge Dredd, Thistlebone, Visions of Deadworld, Feral & Foe, plus the start of an all new 3riller!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2230 is OUT NOW!
The third of Tharg’s trio of spring 3rillers starts this prog with Arthur Wyatt and Pye Parr reuniting for another tale of those gut-busting ‘bots the Intestinauts in the scrotnig Symbiotic Love Triangle (which, admittedly, sounds like one of the prog-rock noodlers we used to listen to back in the seventies).
Elsewhere, we reach the zarjaz finales for both Dredd’s current case, A Penitent Man (which, judging by the feedback, has gone down a storm with you Squaxx) and the current arc of Visions of Deadworld, and folk-horror Thistlebone and fantasy epic Feral & Foe barrel towards their climaxes in a few weeks’ time.
That can only mean ghafflebette new Thrills are waiting in the wings, such as Department K’s first full-length series and Noam Chimpsky’s solo outing, Chimpsky’s Law!
But before that there’s the matter of the second of 2021’s Regened issues, heading your way in Prog 2233 — a collection of all-ages stories overseen by Tharg’s indefatigable nephew Joko-Jargo. Once again, it’ll be a bumper forty-eight pages, and with the likes of Anderson, Psi-Division and Pandora Perfect returning, you won’t want to miss it, Terrans!
2000 AD Prog 2230 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!
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // A PENITENT MAN // 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. Crime is rampant and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Former Judge Kyle Asher has recently returned from Titan, having served a twenty-year sentence. But the SJS have been conducting an illegal operation against him…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Seven!
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, while on a quest for Golgone the Necromancer, they’ve been captured by Woodwoes…
Script: Kek-W / Art: Dave Kendall / Letters: Simon Bowland
VISIONS OF DEADWORLD // Transpolar // Part Two!
The planet that eventually became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a dimension parallel to our own. But the end of days is coming, and creatures known as the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life, which they see as a crime. Zombie ‘greys’ are doing their bidding, having consumed the Dead Fluids, and other monstrosities stalk the streets, preying on survivors…
Script: T.C. Eglington / Art: Simon Davis / Letters: Simon Bowland
THISTLEBONE // POISONED ROOTS // Part Ten!
Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, the site of her terryifying experiences at the hands of Jasper Hillman’s THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. In the process of researching for a book on the Thistlebone legend, Seema believes much of it centres around one man — Malcolm Kinniburgh…
Script: Arthur Wyatt / Art & Letters: Pye Parr
THARG’S 3RILLERS // SYMBIOTIC LOVE TRIANGLE // Part One!
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! It’s the far future, and technology has evolved to the point where nanobots called Intestinauts can be ingested to help with internal medical conditions. These plucky little droids are then flushed back into the system, where their cores are uploaded, ready to go into battle again…
2000 AD Prog 2229 is out now, with more new Judge Dredd, Thistlebone, Visions of Deadworld and Feral & Foe, plus a scrotnig new Future Shock!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2229 is OUT NOW!
Welcome back to your weekly hit of cosmic zarjazness, Terrans, as the crack squad of creator-droids seek to supercharge your reality with the gift of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
Alongside the scrotnig ongoing arcs for Judge Dredd,Feral & Foe and Thistlebone, this prog also features a complete Future Shock by Mark McCann and Glenn Fabry, and the start of a two-part Vision of Deadworld from Kek-W and Dave Kendall!
The week that Tharg’s dictating these words to the cowering editorial note-taker/foot-rest sees non-essential shops in England open for the first time in months as lockdown restrictions ease. Many of you Squaxx will no doubt be keen to get back to your regular routine of picking up this Mighty Organ from your local Thrill-merchant every Wednesday, and we sincerely hope that this is the start of the process of returning to something resembling normality.
After twelve months and more of Tharg’s minions being scattered to their domiciles, we will have to consider at some point when to open up the Command Module and bring them all back in. Will be kind of weird having them knocking about the place again…
2000 AD Prog 2229 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!
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // A PENITENT MAN // 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. Crime is rampant and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Former Judge Kyle Asher has recently returned from Titan, having served a twenty-year sentence. But he’s facing a hostile reception from the SJS…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Six!
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’re on a quest for Golgone the Necromancer…
Script: Kek-W / Art: Dave Kendall / Letters: Simon Bowland
VISIONS OF DEADWORLD // Transpolar // Part One!
The planet that eventually became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a dimension parallel to our own. But the end of days is coming, and creatures known as the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life, which they see as a crime. Zombie ‘greys’ are doing their bidding, having consumed the Dead Fluids, and other monstrosities stalk the streets, preying on survivors…
Script: T.C. Eglington / Art: Simon Davis / Letters: Simon Bowland
THISTLEBONE // POISONED ROOTS // Part Nine!
Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, the site of her terryifying experiences at the hands of Jasper Hillman’s THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. In the process of researching for a book on the Thistlebone legend, Seema believes much of it centres around one man — Malcolm Kinniburgh…
Script: Mark McCann / Art: Glenn Fabry / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
FUTURE SHOCKS // Regarding Henry!
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…
Ahead of its release in a couple of weeks’ time we’re excited to share a preview of the next title in our series of digital-only 2000 AD collections – Time Flies!
First published in the 90s in Progs 700 to 711, and returning as Tempus Fugitive in progs 1015-1023, Time Flies was a time travel comedy series written by Garth Ennis following the misadventures of Squadron Leader Bertie Sharp, a WWII fighter pilot, and future time cop Trace Bullet as they try to recapture Herman Goering from pirates… on a time travelling JCB.
While since its initial publication Ennis has been vocal in his dislike for the series, there’s still a huge amount to enjoy here – this is silly fun, packed with affectionate absurdity, and full to the brim of Philip Bond’s effortlessly cool artwork.
You can check out the first four pages of Time Flies below, and it’s out on May 5th – 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:
2 June Slaughter Bowl – John Smith (w) Paul Peart (a)
7 July Aquila Volume II: The Burning Fields – Gordon Rennie (w) Paul Davidson, Patrick Goddard (a)
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)
2000 AD Prog 2228 is out now, with more new Judge Dredd, Thistlebone, Feral & Foe and Tharg’s 3rillers! Plus the final episode of Sláine: Dragontamer!
BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2228 is OUT NOW!
Those Squaxx among you that have been eagerly awaiting the final episode of the latest Sláine adventure Dragontamer need wait no longer for the Mills and Manco droids are back this very prog for the unfortunately delayed but nevertheless utterly scrotnig climax.
Elsewhere, we have the latest zarjaz instalments of A Penitent Man, Feral & Foe and Thistlebone, and the concluding chapter of the 3riller Chorus & the Ring!
A Thrill-packed prog, I think you’ll agree, Terrans, but the excitement isn’t just within these pulsating pages — this week also sees the release of Judge Dredd Megazine 431, and it’s an equally ghafflebette issue with no less than three new stories.
Ol’ Stoney-Face discovers what happens when you drokk with Bob, courtesy of Ken Niemand and Ian Richardson, Devlin Waugh gets his hands dirty in The Lord of Lies by Aleš Kot and Mike Dowling, and James Peaty and Warren Pleece return to Brit-Cit for the second book of gangland drama Diamond Dogs. Add to that the unmissable final part of Megatropolis, and the continuing carnage of Deliverance, and it’s an essential purchase for every dedicated Thrill-seeker!
2000 AD Prog 2228 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!
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // A PENITENT 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. Crime is rampant and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Former Judge Kyle Asher has recently returned from Titan, having served a twenty-year sentence. But he’s facing a hostile reception from the SJS…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE II // Part Five!
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 sought out Golgone the Necromancer…
Albion. Celtic warrior SLÁINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland, but is now a wanderer, seeking adventure where the Goddess directs him. Currently in Albion, he’s been battling against the Trojan forces of the tyrannical Emperor Brutus, whose Dragon Squadrons have been subjugating the populace. Sláine’s discovered that Brutus has a deranged half-dragon son, Alban…
Script: T.C. Eglington / Art: Simon Davis / Letters: Simon Bowland
THISTLEBONE // POISONED ROOTS // Part Eight!
Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, the site of her terryifying experiences at the hands of Jasper Hillman’s THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. In the process of researching for a book on the Thistlebone legend, Seema believes much of it centres around one man — Malcolm Kinniburgh…
Script: James Peaty / Art: Mike Collins / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
THARG’S 3RILLERS // CHORUS & THE RING // Part Three!
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! It’s the fifty-seventh century, and with Earth a distant memory its people have since spread across the stars. One such group is The Divine Chorus of Freedom, a religious movement based on a ring of asteroids. Now, Battle Sister Evangelista is investigating the fate of the War-Pontiff…
