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2000 AD Prog 2346 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2346 is OUT NOW!

Joko-Jargo here again, bringing you another special all-ages edition of the Galaxy’s Greatest!

Welcome to the latest Regened takeover, where I wrest control of the Command Module from my Uncle Tharg for one week only, and charge the creator droids with scripting and drawing stories for Terrans of any size.

Inside this bumper prog you’ll find another complete Cadet Dredd thriller, this time by James Peaty and Joe Currie, as a cadet from Mega-City Two joins the Academy of Law in The Exchange; dwarf private eye Renk returns after his debut tale in Prog 2296 for the follow-up Twinkle Toes, once again by Paul Starkey and Anna Readman; artificial intelligence and its impact on a human workforce comes under the spotlight in the Future Shock AutoCop by Karl Stock and Toby Willsmer; and we’re back at magical comprehensive Lowborn High for the latest adventure by David Barnett and Mike Walters!

Several of the series that first appeared in the Regened progs have now been collected into graphic novels, including Pandora Perfect, Department K and Full Tilt Boogie — and there are also four anthology volumes, compiling the strips from previous issues. There’s a wealth of all-ages material available right now from shop.2000AD.com, so check it out, humes!

2000 AD Prog 2346 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Peter Yong

Script: James Peaty / Art: Joe Currie / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

CADET DREDD // The Exchange

Mega-City One, 2077 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 zerotolerance 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!


LOWBORN HIGH // Wishing Well

For as long as anyone can remember, Wychdusk Manor has been the school to which all the top magical novices are sent, where they are trained to become the world’s greatest wizards. There, students are taught every form of spellcasting by the wisest of mages, and to be part of Wychdusk’s alumni is an incredible honour. But what about those that don’t make the grade, that don’t have the talent to make it to this prestigious establishment? For them, there’s LOWBORN HIGH, a rundown inner-city comprehensive that is often struggling with funding. Androgeus Frost has recently joined the school, becoming friends with Maisy, Ali and Drill and forming the Deadbeats Club, but he feels he belongs at Wychdusk…


FUTURE SHOCKS // Autocop

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 salutary lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected. Now, in the near future, the increasing use of A.I. is causing much concern amongst human workers, fearful of losing their jobs to automation. Murtin Spork is a plasti-soup taster, who thinks his role is irreplaceable, but technology is progressing at an alarming rate…


RENK // Twinkle Toes

Crepuscularia is the biggest city in the eastern region, sitting on the edge of the Weeping Desert, home to over fifty thousand beings. It’s a massive melting pot, in which entities of all types live together amongst its narrow streets, and next to anything is bought and sold from the various traders. But if you want someone or something found, and you don’t have the gold to employ a wizard, or the silver for a warrior, then dwarf RENK will take your copper coin. A wily private detective, his diminutive stature belies a dogged determination to locate his quarry, and he knows the vast metropolis like the back of his hand…

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Mary Poppins meets Megamind: Pandora Perfect out now!

Hold onto your pearls – Pandora’s here!

For when criminal genius, sometimes babysitter and all round bad ‘un Pandora Perfect is broken out of prison by her faithful robot Gort, no one’s valuables are safe! Pandora and Gort set out on the heist of their lives, stealing fabulous jewels, pickpocketing guffwarblers, and investigating the secrets of a moon made of sausage!

The breakout star of 2000 AD’s acclaimed Regened specials swindles, cheats and lies her way to infamy and riches in this hilarious collection by Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show, Bill and Ted are Doomed) and Brett Parson (Tank Girl).

So, hide your heirlooms, lock up your loot and hold on tight! When Pandora and Gort are around, its sure to be Supercalifragilis-Twisted-and-Explosive!

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PANDORA PERFECT

Hold on to your pearls – Pandora’s here!

For when criminal genius, sometimes babysitter and all round bad ‘un Pandora Perfect is broken out of prison by her faithful robot Gort, no one’s valuables are safe! Pandora and Gort set out on the heist of their lives, stealing fabulous jewels, pickpocketing guffwarblers, and investigating the secrets of a moon made of sausage!

Out on 29 March, the breakout star of 2000 AD’s acclaimed Regened specials swindles, cheats and lies her way to infamy and riches in this hilarious collection by Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show, Bill and Ted are Doomed) and Brett Parson (Tank Girl).

So, hide your heirlooms, lock up your loot and hold on tight! When Pandora and Gort are around, its sure to be Supercalifragilis-Twisted-and-Explosive!

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2000 AD Regened Prog 2306 is out now!

PROG 2306 out now

BORAG THUNGG, YOUNG EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Regened Prog 2306 is OUT NOW!

Joko-Jargo here again, bringing you another special all-ages edition of the Galaxy’s Greatest!

Welcome to the fourth and last Regened issue of 2022, and once more I have a prime selection of Thrills for Terrans of all sizes. Cadet Dredd is joined by his clone-brother Rico at the Mega-City One docks as they investigate a suspicious ship in ‘Undertow’ by Paul Starkey, Silvia Califano and Gary Welsh; the Welsh art-droid also collaborates with writer David Barnett on another Chopper adventure, ‘All For One’, as Marlon Shakespeare learns something about solidarity amongst his fellow juves.

There’s a one-off tale of the unexpected in Future Shocks with ‘The Planet Breakers’ by Karl Stock and Karl Richardson; the twenty-fifth century sport of Gravity Blading makes its debut in the pilot episode of new story Bladers by James Peaty and Leigh Gallagher, introducing Abi Caine’s misfit team the Gravity Bombshells; and there’s humour and carnage as we visit the early days of maniac-for-hire Ulysses Sweet in ‘Psychobaby’.

Yep, it’s the usual Joko mix of the strange, the surreal and the scrotnig! Don’t forget, you can now pick up no less than four zarjaz volumes of Regened stories, collected as trade paperbacks, available from shop.2000AD.com — the ideal Xmas present for every Squaxx. Enjoy, Earthlets!

2000 AD Regened Prog 2306 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Alex Ronald

Script: Paul Starkey / Art: Silvia Califano & Gary Welsh / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

CADET DREDD // Undertow

Mega-City One, 2077 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: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

BLADERS

It’s the twenty-fifth century, and humanity has spread out amongst the stars. One of its biggest exports is Gravity Blading, the most exciting, successful and lucrative sport in the galaxy. One person who dreamed of being a Blader was Abi Caine, but severe injury forced her out of the trials. However, an unexpected and sizable inheritance has enabled her to re-enter the world of G-Blading, though not as a competitor — she’s buying up the Gravity Bombshells, a team on its last legs after their previous manager proved corrupt. Caine’s got her work cut out if she’s going get the Bombshells ready for the play-offs…


Script: Guy Adams / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell

ULYSSES SWEET // Psychobaby

The future. At some point the adult Ulysses Sweet will become infamous across the galaxy as a Maniac-For-Hire — if you have an incredibly dangerous mission that requires someone insane enough to face improbable odds, then Sweet is your man. Prone to acts of violence, and possessing a dubious connection to reality, you hire Ulysses at your peril. Indeed, there’s every chance you’ll make the situation even worse. But when it comes to utter madness, no one can touch him — and this all started as a baby, with a love for explosive weaponry and remembering the words his ruthless criminal mother told him…


Script: Karl Stock / Art: Karl Richardson / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FUTURE SHOCK // The Planet Breakers

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 salutary lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected. Now, at some point in the future, the human race’s need for resources to solve its energy crisis will mean it will start mining other planets. But what happens when plundering a world goes drastically wrong…?


Script: David Barnett / Art: Gary Welsh / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Simon Bowland

CHOPPER // All For One

Mega-City One, 2103 AD. Marlon Shakespeare was just an ordinary juve in the vast twenty-second century metropolis, and like most of his generation had little to no prospects, expecting a future of unemployment and boredom. His parents have already embraced the meaninglessness of life in the Big Meg, and spend their days heading eggs into a bucket or washing up. But Marlon was determined to make a name for himself, and under the alias CHOPPER, became a famous scrawler, spraying his tag in the most audacious of places. He was eventually arrested and served an iso-cube sentence, but he’s now out, and taking up skysurfing…

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2000 AD Prog 2299 is out now!

PROG 2299 out now

BORAG THUNGG, YOUNG EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2299 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, Betelgeusian overlord supercharging your realities with Thrill-power!

All the scrotnig current stories wrap up this issue, Terrans, with Dexter and Jaegir returning next year, and Skip Tracer signing off on its last ever episode.

Usually for an autumn jumping-on prog I have a line-up of all-new strips to follow a series of endings such as this, but this year we’re doing something a little different. Prog 2300 is going to be a bumper 48-page bonanza of zombie horror as the undead infection spreads across the whole 2000 AD multiverse, affecting everyone from Sam Slade to the Survival Geeks, Rogue Trooper to the Mean Arena.

Why are the stars of the Galaxy’s Greatest being reduced to shambling, flesh-hungry corpses? Well, you’ll have to wait seven days to find out, but let me just say that September 2022 marks thirty years since Sabbat the Necromagus was defeated in the mega-epic Judgement Day… This is a story too big to contain within the covers of the pulse-pounding weekly, so it’ll be crossing over with Judge Dredd Megazine 448, also on sale next week (though make sure you read the prog first). The ghouls are go on 21 September, my Squaxx!

2000 AD Prog 2299 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Toby Willsmer

Script: Rob Williams / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

CADET DREDD // Sentientoid’s Big Idea, part three

Mega-City One, 2144 AD. Home to over 180 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, the Sov war-droid that had been hired to take out Dredd and Maitland on Atlantis seeks purpose to its life…


Script: David Barnett / Art: Lee Milmore / Colours: Quinton Winter / Letters: Simon Bowland

THARG’S 3RILLERS // The Crawly Man, part three

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Wales 2022, and the village of Cudd has its own customs, its residents keen to keep its traditions secret. Outsiders are not welcome, and any problems will be solved internally. So when a young girl goes missing, they hire Herne and his dog Shuck to find her…


Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Simon Bowland

SKIP TRACER // Valhalla, part eleven

The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake came in, a former soldier turned psi-tracker. But now the Cube has come under the malignant influence of a nearby blackstar, and Blake has entered it on a mission…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Steve Yeowell / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

DEXTER // Bulletopia Chapter Eleven: The End of The Pier Show, part three

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, and Dexter, Carrie Hosanna and Billi Octavo are on the run, trying to get to sanctuary in Mangapore…


Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Simon Coleby / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Jim Campbell

JAEGIR // Ferox, part eight

The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxywide war with the Southers, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals. She’s also suffering from the Strigoi curse, a fault in the Nort DNA. Now, she’s entered the Miasma to appeal to General Kurga to give her part of a weapon that can wipe out the Southers…

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2000 AD Prog 2298 is out now!

PROG 2298 out now

BORAG THUNGG, YOUNG EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2297 is OUT NOW!

Welcome to your weekly Thrill-blast — I am The Mighty Tharg, all-powerful alien editor!

Welcome to the latest brain-blasting issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Terrans, within which my feverishly busy creator-droids beaver away on high-octane Thrills guaranteed to shatter your circuits. We’re building towards the end of the current run of stories with this prog featuring the penultimate parts of Judge Dredd story ‘Sentientoid’s Big Idea’, the coming end of Skip Tracer, Dexter continues with ‘The End of the Pier Show’, the Tharg’s 3riller ‘The Crawly Man’, and the latest Jaegir story ‘Ferox’. Everything comes to their zarjaz conclusions in seven days to make way for the epic Prog 2300 on 21 September, which is going to be something very special indeed.

2000 AD Prog 2298 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague

Script: Rob Williams / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

CADET DREDD // Sentientoid’s Big Idea, part two

Mega-City One, 2144 AD. Home to over 180 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, the Sov war-droid that had been hired to take out Dredd and Maitland on Atlantis seeks purpose to its life…


Script: David Barnett / Art: Lee Milmore / Colours: Quinton Winter / Letters: Simon Bowland

THARG’S 3RILLERS // The Crawly Man, part two

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Wales 2022, and the village of Cudd has its own customs, its residents keen to keep its traditions secret. Outsiders are not welcome, and any problems will be solved internally. So when a young girl goes missing, they hire Herne and his dog Shuck to find her…


Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Simon Bowland

SKIP TRACER // Valhalla, part ten

The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake came in, a former soldier turned psi-tracker. But now the Cube has come under the malignant influence of a nearby blackstar, and Blake has entered it on a mission…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Steve Yeowell / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

DEXTER // Bulletopia Chapter Eleven: The End of The Pier Show, part two

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, and Dexter, Carrie Hosanna and Billi Octavo are on the run, trying to get to sanctuary in Mangapore…


Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Simon Coleby / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Jim Campbell

JAEGIR // Ferox, part seven

The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxywide war with the Southers, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals. She’s also suffering from the Strigoi curse, a fault in the Nort DNA. Now, she’s entered the Miasma to appeal to General Kurga to give her part of a weapon that can wipe out the Southers…

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2000 AD Prog 2297 is out now!

PROG 2297 out now

BORAG THUNGG, YOUNG EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2297 is OUT NOW!

Welcome to your weekly Thrill-blast — I am The Mighty Tharg, all-powerful alien editor!

After Joko-Jargo’s all-ages takeover last issue, we return to your regular programming. Alongside the latest instalments of Jaegir and Skip Tracer, there are three new stories starting — Sentientoid, the Sov war-droid hired to assassinate Dredd and Maitland in The Hard Way, travels to Mega-City One in a new thriller from Rob Williams and Jake Lynch; Dexter and co finally reach the coast in the last chapter of the Dexter story Bulletopia, courtesy of Dan Abnett and Steve Yeowell; and David Barnett and Thought Bubble winner Lee Milmore present the latest of my zarjaz Tharg’s 3rillers, The Crawly Man. Enjoy, my Squaxx!

2000 AD Prog 2297 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Jake Lynch

Script: Rob Williams / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

CADET DREDD // Sentientoid’s Big Idea, part one

Mega-City One, 2144 AD. Home to over 180 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, the Sov war-droid that had been hired to take out Dredd and Maitland on Atlantis seeks purpose to its life…


Script: David Barnett / Art: Lee Milmore / Colours: Quinton Winter / Letters: Simon Bowland

THARG’S 3RILLERS // The Crawly Man, part one

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Wales 2022, and the village of Cudd has its own customs and beliefs, its residents keen to keep its traditions secret. Outsiders are not welcome, and any problems will be solved internally. So when a young girl goes missing, they will deal with it themselves…


Script: James Peaty / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Simon Bowland

SKIP TRACER // Valhalla, part nine

The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake came in, a former soldier turned psi-tracker. But now the Cube has come under the malignant influence of a nearby blackstar, and Blake has entered it on a mission…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Steve Yeowell / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

DEXTER // Bulletopia Chapter Eleven: The End of The Pier Show, 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, and Dexter, Carrie Hosanna and Billi Octavo are on the run, trying to get to sanctuary in Mangapore…


Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Simon Coleby / Colours: Len O’Grady / Letters: Jim Campbell

JAEGIR // Ferox, part five

The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxywide war with the Southers, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals. She’s also suffering from the Strigoi curse, a fault in the Nort DNA. Now, she’s entered the Miasma to appeal to General Kurga to give her part of a weapon that can wipe out the Southers…

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2000 AD Regened Prog 2296 is out now!

PROG 2296 out now

BORAG THUNGG, YOUNG EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Regened Prog 2296 is OUT NOW!

Joko-Jargo here again, bringing you another special all-ages edition of the Galaxy’s Greatest!

Welcome to the third Regened issue of 2022. I’m sure you know the score by now, but if there are any newcomers amongst the Terrans poring through these Thrill-packed pages, then let me offer you cosmic greetings and explain that four times a year my Uncle Tharg passes me the keys to the Command Module — which he doesn’t do lightly, believe me — and allows me to take over 2000 AD, pulling together these bumper progs aimed at a wide audience, with one-off and brand-new stories, ideal for those dipping their toes into the Mighty One’s emerald empire.

This issue is no exception, with Cadet Dredd tackling mutant slavers in the Cursed Earth in Two Tribes, dwarf private detective Renk embroiled in a case involving a princess’s missing parents in the debut episode of a new fantasy series, Simon, Sam and the kids going on a day trip to the centre of Howard’s guts in ‘Splorers, and Department K having an overload of Estabons (don’t miss the forthcoming collection of previous Dept K stories, hitting the shelves in November). All this plus a synapse-searing Future Shock in which the world’s inequalities are solved in a flash (or are they?), and it’s another zarjaz line-up!

2000 AD Regened Prog 2296 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Nick Roche & Jim Boswell

Script: James Peaty / Art: Luke Horsman / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

CADET DREDD // Two Tribes

Mega-City One, 2077 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: Paul Starkey / Art: Anna Readman / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Jim Campbell

RENK

Crepuscularia is the biggest city in the eastern region, sitting on the edge of the Weeping Desert, home to over fifty thousand beings. It’s a massive melting pot, in which entities of all types live together amongst its narrow streets, and next to anything is bought and sold from the various traders. But if you want someone or something found, and you don’t have the gold to employ a wizard, or the silver for a warrior, then dwarf RENK will take your copper coin. A wily private detective, his diminutive stature belies a dogged determination to locate his quarry, and he knows the vast metropolis like the back of his hand…


Script: David Barnett / Art: Steve Roberts / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FUTURE SHOCK // Levelling Up

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. Now, at some point in the future, the gap between the haves and the have-nots will grow ever wider. When the incredibly wealthy Jon Mozes discovers that his fortune has now reached 7.8 quintillion dollars, what is his next step…?


Script: Rory McMconville / Art: Nick Dyer / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Simon Bowland

DEPARTMENT K // Crisis of Infinite Estabons

Mega-City One, 2144 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…


Script: Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby / Art: Neil Googe / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Simon Bowland

‘SPLORERS // The Big Splash

Once upon a time there were three twentysomething geeks — Simon, Rufus and Clive — who shared what looked like an ordinary semi-detached on a regular suburban street. But Clive had fitted the house with a transdimensional drive that enabled it to cross time and space, although it malfunctioned and they spent years bouncing between worlds. Joined by sceptical new housemate Sam, their travels finally came to an end when they returned to Earth and became responsible adults — Rufus entered politics, Clive became a CEO, and Simon and Sam got together as a couple, eventually having kids. But the adventures didn’t stop there…

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2000 AD Regened Prog 2288 is out now!

PROG 2288 out now

2000 AD‘s all-ages special Regened returns in Prog 2288 – out now from all good newsagents, comic book stores, and digitally from the 2000 AD webshop and app!

It’s that time once again when Joko-Jargo storms the Command Module, temporarily boots his Uncle Tharg out of his office and assumes control of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

In this zarjaz all-ages issue you’ll find another case for Cadet Dredd as he investigates disappearances at the Alien Zoo in Zootrapolis by Liam Johnson and Joel Carpenter; Roger Langridge and Brett Parson reunite for a new Pandora Perfect caper as a giant chicken rampages through the city; wheeler-dealing duo Scooter & Jinx return and must track down a missing actor in The Big, Grand Souffle of Nothing; we head back to the rundown comprehensive school for wizards for the second episode of David Barnett and Anna Morozova’s Lowborn High as Andy Frost is co-opted into the Orbitus playoffs; and there’s a mind-bending short story in Future Shocks: Into the Void from Karl Stock and Tom Newell!

Remember, humes, if you missed any of my previous Regened issues, you can now get the stories in four scrotnig book collections, available from shop.2000AD.com.

2000 AD Prog 2288 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover by Peter Yong

CADET DREDD: ZOOATRAPOLIS

Script: Liam Johnson / Art: Joel Carpenter / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

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!


LOWBORN HIGH: GOOD SPORT

Script: David Barnett / Art: Anna Morozova / Letters: Jim Campbell

For as long as anyone can remember, Wychdusk Manor has been the school to which all the top magical novices are sent, where they are trained to become the world’s greatest wizards. There, students are taught every form of spellcasting by the wisest of mages, and to be part of Wychdusk’s alumni is an incredible honour. But what about those that don’t make the grade, that don’t have the talent or the family name to make it to this prestigious establishment? For them, there’s LOWBORN HIGH, a rundown inner-city comprehensive that is often struggling with funding, but its pupils can still be capable of some truly amazing feats…


FUTURE SHOCKS: INTO THE VOID

Script: Karl Stock / Art: Tom Newell / Colours: Barbara Nosenzo / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

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. Now, at some point in the future, the online world will become ever more sophisticated, allowing users to leave reality — or solidstate — behind and exist in an environment of nothing but memes and dreams…


SCOOTER & JINX: THE BIG, GRAND SOUFFLE OF NOTHING

Script: James Peaty / Art: Steve Roberts / Letters: Simon Bowland

Scooter Occultatum was working at Mondo’s Mektail Bar on Eco- Point when she encountered Jinx Calhoun, a rogue and a thief, who has more than enough secrets of his own and plenty of enemies with scores to settle. When gangsters came after them, keen to get their hands on something Jinx had stolen, the pair went on the run, Jinx discovering in the process that Scooter is in fact a Bone Machine, a highly lethal cybernetic organism. When Jinx was severely wounded, Scooter managed to save his life but lost her self-repairing functionality — and the two became bonded at a level neither them fully understands…


PANDORA PERFECT: FEED THE BIRD

Script: Roger Langridge / Art: Brett Parson / Letters: Simon Bowland

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 some pills that increase the size of poultry…

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2000 AD Regened Prog 2280 is out now!

PROG 2280 out now

2000 AD‘s all-ages special Regened returns in Prog 2280 – out now from all good newsagents, comic book stores, and digitally from the 2000 AD webshop and app!

Joko-Jargo brings you another special all-ages edition of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – precision-tooled to engage as inclusive an audience as possible!

And what a line-up — Cadets Dredd and Rico investigate med-supplies being released onto the streets in Red Medicine; skysurfer Chopper has a mystery of his own to unpick when Boingers start going missing in What Goes Up; there’s a complete Future Shock as household appliances become aware in Smart Home; the unruly Class Omega-Default IV (who first appeared in Prog 2130) return in The Unteachables; and Lowborn High makes its debut, showing where student wizards go that don’t manage to make it into the prestigious Wychdusk Manor academy!

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2000 AD Prog 2280 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!

CADET DREDD: RED MEDICINE

  • Script: James Peaty
  • Art: Luke Horsman
  • Letters: Annie Parkhouse

THE UNTEACHABLES

  • Script: Karl Stock
  • Art: Xulia Vicente
  • Colours: Matt Soffe
  • Letters: Simon Bowland

FUTURE SHOCKS: SMART HOME

  • Script: Honor Vincent
  • Art: VV Glass
  • Letters: Annie Parkhouse

LOWBORN HIGH

  • Script: David Barnett
  • Art: Anna Morozova
  • Letters: Jim Campbell

CHOPPER: WHAT GOES UP⁣⁣⁣

  • Script: David Barnett
  • Art: Nick Roche
  • Colours: John Charles
  • Letters: Simon Bowland