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2000 AD Prog 2275 is out now!

2000 AD Prog 2275 is out now! Featuring more new Judge Dredd, Intestinauts, Kingmaker, Brink, and Fiends of the Eastern Front!

PROG 2275 out now

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2275 is OUT NOW!

We say farewell to Kingmaker this prog as the current arc of Ian Edginton and Leigh Gallagher’s epic fantasy/SF mash-up reaches its finale — but we also welcome a new story as those gut-busting nanobots the Intestinauts are back in The Bowel Impactors, courtesy as ever of writer Arthur Wyatt and artist Pye Parr. Expect droid-on-droid action in the stinky surrounds of a futuristic sewer system as a fiery fight on a gargantuan fatberg has explosive consequences!

Elsewhere, Judge Dredd and his small squad of cadets infiltrate the mysterious Citadel of the story’s title, Constanta catches up with his target in East Berlin though he may not be all that he seems, and Maslow’s investigations into union workings bring him closer to a sect conspiracy in Brink.

All in all, another zarjaz issue from my emerald empire, delivered by my Command Module meks for your Terran enjoyment. Even after forty-five years, we’re still coming up with the Thrill-powered goods — and next week you’ve got the start of a new Hope series by Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton! How do we do it? Just naturally ghafflebette, we guess…

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Cover Art by Pye Parr

Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Citadel / 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 Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a former cadet called Winterton, due to be euthanised, is relating a story from the Apocalypse War forty years ago…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Tiernen Trevallion/ Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT // 1963 / Part Three!

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to meet
Constanta — the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, in 1963, the bloodsucking creature of the night has a new position in the Uncivil Service…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

KINGMAKER // Falls The Shadow / Part Twelve!

The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believed they may have the means to stop them — and now Duke Eschatus has been thrown into space, meaning Crixus is ostensibly in charge…


Script: Arthur Wyatt / Art & Letters: Pye Parr

INTESTINAUTS // The Bowel Impactors / Part One!

For stomach upsets, future technology has developed nano-robots called INTESTINAUTS, who fight parasites in the gut. These micro-droids are ingested orally, then once their brave battle against the various horrors that can be found in the stomach is over, they take the Big Flush, ready to be uploaded back to headquarters, where their accrued knowledge of the enemy will help them in future missions…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // Mercury Retrograde / Part Six!

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these
cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating …

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2000 AD Prog 2274 is out now!

2000 AD Prog 2274 is out now! Featuring more new Judge Dredd, Proteus Vex, Kingmaker, Brink, and Fiends of the Eastern Front!

PROG 2274 out now

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2274 is OUT NOW!

Lots to engage your Thrill-circuits at the moment, Terrans, not least this ghafflebette prog, which features the final part of the Proteus Vex thriller Desire Paths alongside the latest instalments of Judge Dredd, Fiends of the Eastern Front, Brink and Kingmaker.

Coming up over the weekend of 26-27 March is 2000 AD’s forty-fifth anniversary online convention, playing host to a galaxy of star guests, and needless to say should not be missed by any Squaxx. Streaming on Facebook, Twitch and YouTube (with all panels available to watch on YouTube afterwards), expect to see the likes of John Wagner, Mick McMahon, Brian Bolland, Garth Ennis and Alex De Campi alongside figures from the world of entertainment such as Robin Ince, Ian Rankin, and more!

Don’t miss too a new exhibition at the Dinner Party Gallery, Clerkenwell Road, London, as 2000 AD has partnered with Carhartt for ‘Prog-Ress’, where contemporary artists have taken inspiration from the pages of the GGC to create new works. It runs from 25 March to 10 April, and well worth checking out, Thrill-hungry humes!

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Cover Art by Cliff Robinson / Cover Colours by Dylan Teague

Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Citadel / 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 Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a former cadet called Winterton, due to be euthanised, is relating a story from the Apocalypse War forty years ago…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Tiernen Trevallion/ Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT // 1963 / Part Two!

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to meet
Constanta — the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, in 1963, the bloodsucking creature of the night has a new position in the Uncivil Service…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

KINGMAKER // Falls The Shadow / Part Eleven!

The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believed they may have the means to stop them — and now Duke Eschatus has been thrown into space, meaning Crixus is ostensibly in charge…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Desire Paths / Part Thirteen!

Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — has now become an enemy of the Alliance when he released information about past war crimes…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // Mercury Retrograde / Part Five!

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these
cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating …

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2000 AD Prog 2273 is out now!

2000 AD Prog 2273 is out now! Featuring more new Judge Dredd, Proteus Vex, Kingmaker and Brink, plus brand new Fiends of the Eastern Front!

PROG 2273 out now

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2273 is OUT NOW!

The vampire Constanta returns this prog in a new series of Fiends of the Eastern Front by Ian Edginton and Tiernen Trevallion. Having seen him on the Western Front in the First World War, and learnt of his origins, we fast-forward along the timeline to 1963, at the height of the Cold War, where the bloodsucker is an instrument of espionage.

Given the worrying events taking place in Europe at the time of writing, the idea of East vs West is unfortunately more on-point than anticipated — alongside Judge Dredd battling invading Sovs in The Citadel, sometimes Tharg’s powers of prescience scare even him.

Thankfully, you’ve also got the deep-space intrigue of Brink, the all-out alien action in Proteus Vex, and the epic fantasy of Kingmaker to distract you from impeding reality! There’s more distraction too in Meg 442, which is out right now, and features the latest instalments of Dredd, Death Cap, Surfer, Diamond Dogs and Lawless, plus the third chapter of Hawk the Slayer, a moving tribute to the late art-droid Ian Kennedy, and lots more. Head direct to a Thrill-merchant now!

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Cover Art by Tiernen Trevallion

Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Citadel / 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 Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a former cadet called Winterton, due to be euthanised, is relating a story from the Apocalypse War forty years ago…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Tiernen Trevallion/ Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT // 1963 / Part One!

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to meet
Constanta — the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, in 1963, the bloodsucking creature of the night has a new position in the Uncivil Service…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

KINGMAKER // Falls The Shadow / Part Ten!

The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believed they may have the means to stop them — and now Duke Eschatus has been thrown into space, meaning Crixus is ostensibly in charge…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Desire Paths / Part Twelve!

Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — has now become an enemy of the Alliance when he released information about past war crimes…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // Mercury Retrograde / Part Four!

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these
cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating …

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2000 AD Prog 2272 is out now!

2000 AD Prog 2272 is out now! Featuring more new Judge Dredd, Proteus Vex, The Order, Kingmaker and Brink!

PROG 2272 out now

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2272 is OUT NOW!

It’s that time of the week again, Thrill-hungry humanoids, when your circuits are given another good workout by the ghafflebette contents of Tharg’s illustrious organ.

As editor of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, it’s Tharg’s job to corral the Command Module’s team of creator-meks to bring you the finest stories in the known universe, and any droid not delivering one hundred per cent zarjazosity will face his terrifying Betelgeusian wrath. Thankfully, forever toiling under this very real threat means they’re committed to pushing their script and art talents to the maximum — and thus you have scrotnig progs like this one, where every strip thrums with sheer cosmic energy.

There’s explosive wartime action in Judge Dredd, sinister intrigue in Brink, deep-space conflict in Proteus Vex, left-field developments in the sword n’ sorcery saga that is Kingmaker, and darkness on the edge of time in the nerve-shredding finale to The Order: Fantastic Voyage!

But as 2000 AD rolls on, it means that standard must be maintained every seven days — so look out for new Fiends of the Eastern Front next issue!

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Cover Art by INJ Culbard

Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Citadel / 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. Crime is rampant and only the Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a former cadet called Winterton, due to be euthanised, is relating a story from the Apocalypse War forty years ago…


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE ORDER // Fantastic Voyage / Part Eleven!

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and now the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, the various members of The Order have become separated at the edge of time…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

KINGMAKER // Falls The Shadow / Part Nine!

The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believed they may have the means to stop them — and now Duke Eschatus has been thrown into space, creating a power vacuum at the top…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Desire Paths / Part Eleven!

Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — has now become an enemy of the Alliance when he released information about past war crimes…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // Mercury Retrograde / Part Three!

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating …

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2000 AD Prog 2271 is out now!

2000 AD Prog 2271 is out now! Featuring more new Judge Dredd, Proteus Vex, The Order, Kingmaker and Brink!

PROG 2271 out now

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2271 is OUT NOW!

We trust your circuits have fully recovered from the bumper birthday bonanza that was last week’s anniversary issue — we’re back to the regular page-count this prog but the Thrills are still giant-sized as Judge Dredd: The Citadel and Brink: Mercury Retrograde launch into their scrotnig second chapters, while Proteus Vex, Kingmaker and The Order all build towards their respective climaxes, with Fantastic Voyage’s finale coming in just seven days’ time!

But the forty-fifth celebrations are not over yet — not least because the beginning of March marks the anniversary of a certain 22nd century lawman’s debut — for as you will no doubt have seen from the adverts, the Command Module is hosting a special
free online convention at 2000AD.com on 26-27 March that will feature a plethora of zarjaz guests talking about the Galaxy’s Greatest and its pervading influence.

Not only will there be comics creators like John Wagner, Garth Ennis, Alex De Campi and Dan Cornwell attending, but also fans from outside the field, including Robin Ince, Ian Rankin, Mitch Benn, Dane Baptiste, and more. Don’t miss it, Terrans!

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2000 AD Prog 2271 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 / Cover Colours by Dylan Teague

Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Citadel / 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 Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE ORDER // Fantastic Voyage / Part Ten!

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and now the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, the various members of The Order have become separated at the edge of time…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

KINGMAKER // Falls The Shadow / Part Eight!

The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believed they may have the means to stop them — but Ichnar manifested in Ablard, and Crixus and Yarrow were forced to kill him. Ichnar’s spirit escaped…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Desire Paths / Part Ten!

Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — has now become an enemy of the Alliance when he released information about past war crimes…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // Mercury Retrograde / Part Two!

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating …

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2000 AD Prog 2270 is out now!

2000 AD Prog 2270 is out now! This zarjaz bumper birthday issue features more new Judge Dredd, Proteus Vex, and The Order, plus brand new Indigo Prime, Tharg the Mighty, Brink and Kingmaker!

PROG 2270 out now

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS – Prog 2270 is OUT NOW!

Welcome to a bumper issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic this week, Terrans, as we celebrate an incredible forty-five years channelling Thrill-power.

It’s a remarkable achievement for a newsstand title to have weathered four and a half decades and still be here producing scrotnig stories every seven days, and it’s testament to the ghafflebette talents of our droids — script, art, lettering, colourists, editorial — that 2000 AD is globally renowned as one of the most important and influential anthologies to have been beamed into your reality.

And of course we wouldn’t be here without you loyal Squaxx so this prog we’re marking the forty-fifth milestone with new Thrills in Dredd and Brink, ongoing adventure in Proteus Vex, The Order and Kingmaker, and a couple of one-offs in Indigo Prime and a special tale from the Command Module.

Alas, some sad news reached us just as this issue was being assembled — ace art-droid Ian Kennedy passed away on 7 February 2022. His zarjaz work on Ro-Busters, Dan Dare and more is rightly legendary, and he will be much missed.

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2000 AD Prog 2270 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 Brian Bolland

Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Citadel / 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 Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!


Script: Kek-W / Art: Lee Carter / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

INDIGO PRIME // Whatever Happened to Mickey Challis?!

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, with most of the personnel lost. Mickey Challis is about to be extracted by IP head Clive Vista…


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE ORDER // Fantastic Voyage / Part Nine!

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and now the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, the various members of The Order have become separated at the edge of time…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Leigh Gallagher / Letters: Jim Campbell

KINGMAKER // Falls The Shadow / Part Seven!

The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believed they may have the means to stop them — but Ichnar manifested in Ablard, and Crixus and Yarrow were forced to kill him. Ichnar’s spirit escaped…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Desire Paths / Part Nine!

Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — has now become an enemy of the Alliance when he released information about past war crimes…

Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // Mercury Retrograde / Part One!

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these
cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating …

Script: David Barnett / Art: Robin Smith / Letters: Jim Campbell

THARG THE MIGHTY // Stars on 45!

The Nerve Centre, Earth, 2022 AD. Within this fortified bunker nestled in Oxford, Betelgeusian editor THARG THE MIGHTY corrals his creator-droids to bring the planet’s Squaxx the gift of Thrill-power via the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. He’s been doing this for forty-five years now, and as the anniversary approaches he’s got certain ideas on how to celebrate the milestone event..

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2000AD Covers Uncovered – Brinkeye!

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Someone had moved the ‘Out of Order’ sign form the lift…

“I wanted something with tentacles showing a break in sanity, something very familiar to me with the work I’ve done over the years for SelfMadeHero. What’s already been well established in series one was The Eye of Vovek. So I used that again here, exactly the same way as it features in series one, but with Bridget reflected in it with a similar fearful expression as per the 1st cover for this second series, a sort of visual call back. The rough I did even used the line art of the face from the previous cover just copied and pasted in this purpose.”

The dianoga makes a cameo in Brink!

“Again with the flatting.”

The view from the lavvy as Kurtis has one gin too many…

“And then colors, final inks, and done.”

“Erm… can I have my ball back please?”

Awesome! Vovek sized thanks to Ian for sending the break downs and commentary, they’re brilliant! Earthlets should look ut for Brink Book One when it is released in September this year!

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2000AD Covers Uncovered – Brink Special!

Prog 1978 saw the debut of Tharg’s newest thrill, the glorious Brink, by scriptdroid Dan Abnett and mind boggling artdroid, INJ Culbard.

This futuristic, police-based procedural sees cops Carl Brinkman and Bridget Kurtis investigating drug crime and murder on the Odette Habitat – a festering space station inhabited by all manner of oddbods, addicts and cultists following the evacuation of Earth.

Following his runaway success on Brass Sun, the Culbard droid is bringing his unique world building skills to this new, deeply unsettling tale. Ian was kind enough to give me the rundown on his first two stunning covers to date, he said…

“Below is the initial rough sketch working from a brief set by Tharg which read “The two investigators in the foreground, with the habitat behind them and something vaguely Lovecraftian and menacing in the spacey backdrop”. So, with the latter part of the brief, and given the nature of the series, I went for cosmic tentacles. Not so much menacing as just, vast. I’ve done a fair bit of Lovecraftian stuff before, and for this series particularly, the kind of vague Lovecraftian vibe is more like an aurora borealis. An amazing light show, but in reality you’re looking at a solar storm battering our planet’s atmosphere and that’s actually pretty scary. On a far grander more cosmological scale, the sort of scale befitting anything Lovecraftian, if you could imagine the Horsehead Nebula, utterly beautiful and serene, now imagine that destroying everything in its path. Hence, cosmic tentacles…”

Oh dear, the Culbard droid has leaked oil all over his work…

He continues “I did at one point include a more detailed and populated background, but it was decided that that it looked too busy and took away from the focus, which at launch really needed to be the two main protagonists. Going back to what I was saying about the Horsehead Nebula, that influenced a good real of colour for the cosmos.”

“Come out law breakers! I know you’re here somewhere!!!”

And here’s Ian’s finished piece, absolutely wonderful!

The Horsehead Nebula is actually Vito Corleone’s favourite constellation…

“For the second cover I did a really quick rough sketch to Tharg’s brief which I don’t have to hand but it was something along the lines of Bridge falling down a rabbit hole so I did just that, with Bridge, gun in hand, falling backward down the piped corridors of the habitat ventilation system, with cultist’s arms poking through to grab her. Initially I had Anish’s drive system behind her but that ended up just complicating the image so I left it out but retained the red from the environment in which we first encounter Anish…”

“The Claws!”

“Tharg felt it looked like Bridge was floating towards us and suggested I draw her falling backwards, arms and legs flailing. He also wanted some sect graffiti on the pipe work, all of which led to the final image. Always loved that bike chase sequence in Akira where you get the tail lights streaking, so I decided to have that coming from the magazine light on Bridge’s gun!”

When crowd surfing goes wrong…

All of which brings us up to speed with the world of Brink! A huge, HUGE thanks to INJ Culbard for sending the info and circuit scrambling images! Grud only knows how this twisted tale is going to end but I’m however it does, I’m hooked!

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Exclusive preview: Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard’s ‘Brink’

We’re very pleased to unveil a preview of the first episode of the new Thrill by Dan Abnett (Sinister Dexter, Insurrection) and INJ Culbard (Brass Sun) – Brink!

This brand-new series is a deepspace police procedural drama set in the aftermath of mankind’s evacuation from Earth.

The human race now populates a number of orbiting Habitats, artificial environments that are breeding grounds for drug crime, murder and all sorts of insanity, and Habitat Security Division officers Carl Brinkmann and Bridget Kurtis are about to investigate a case that will take them to the very edge.

Don’t miss a single zarjaz episode of this tense, eerie thriller, Terrans, which will keep your circuits stoked over the next three months!

Brink begins in Prog 1978, which lands on April 27th at all good Thrill stockists and the 2000 AD webshop and apps, and you can read an interview with the Abnett droid from late last year about this new series here!