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‘The City was dying. It was dying hard, and dying ugly’ – Bad City Blue out now in digital!

“An enthralling insight into just what humanity might expect from life in the distant future.” – Big Comic Page

“One of the darkest stories ever told in 2000 AD” – Geek Native

“fast and punchy … a great little slice of speculative fiction” – Comicon.com

“gritty, dark and but strangely fascinating … A short, sharp hit of dystopian science fiction horror” – Kendall Reviews

The dark, dystopian sci-fi tale Bad City Blue is now available digitally for the first time!

Written by Alan Grant (Batman) with art by Robin Smith (The Bogie Man), this complete 2000 AD series from 1986 is available to buy in the 2000 AD app or download DRM-free from the 2000 AD webshop.

Blue is a ‘button man’ working for the wealthy elite of Bader City, a metropolis built on an asteroid. His job is to enforce order within ‘Bad City’, the 90% of the city which exists within in the asteroid, on behalf of the ‘topsiders’.

However, upon descending down into the plague-ridden ghetto Blue discovers the secret behind Bader City, and realises that time is running out…

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One of 2000 AD‘s digital-only releases for this year, this hidden gem was originally serialised in 2000 AD Progs 468-477 and is 2000 AD at its dark and gritty best!

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OUT NOW – Flesh: Midnight Cowboys!

The 23rd century, mankind is surviving on synthetic food, but the Trans-Time corporation has a solution: sending its employees back in time to the age of the dinosaurs and butcher them for their meat… but these humungous beasts aren’t afraid to bite back!

This futuristic Western story by Pat Mills and James McKay, and with cover art by Mark Harrison, is now available in an exclusive digital-only graphic novel for the first time!

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Created by Pat Mills, Flesh was one of the original stories featured all the way back in Prog 1, and quickly became a fan-favourite for bloodthirsty readers. Originally running from 1977 until 1979, there was a smattering of stories in the 1990s, but in 2007 the dinosaurs were brought back to life and Flesh was fully revived, and has been a staple of the Prog ever since.

In the original strip, and this – the modern continuation with art by James McKay – time travelling corporations send humans back to the ancient past to farm dinosaurs for meat to feed a hungry future, but the employees of Trans Time discover pretty quickly that their dinner likes to fight back!

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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:

5 May – Time Flies – Garth Ennis (w) Philip Bond, John Beeston, Roger Langridge (a)

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)