JUDGES: (In)famous by Zina Hutton is the latest in the JUDGES novella series exploring the origins of Judge Dredd’s world.
United States of America, 2057 A.D. Judge Kiera Clayton’s young, idealistic… and bored, watching videos to kill the time. Amara Dawson’s bid for internet fame isn’t paying off—until she attracts the attention of a group of viral pranksters.
But Amara’s not prepared for how far the gang are prepared to take things, and she’s going to need help. What’s wrong with wanting to be famous?
The (In)famous ebook is available from shop.2000AD.com, the 2000 AD app and Amazon’s Kindle store. Or you can pre-order one of 150 copies of the special edition paperback from the 2000 AD webshop now!
The exciting series charting the collapse of America and the rise of the Judges continues – read the exclusive extract below and pre-order the special edition paperback now!
JUDGES: (In)famous by Zina Hutton is the latest in the JUDGES novella series exploring the origins of Judge Dredd’s world.
United States of America, 2057 A.D. Judge Kiera Clayton’s young, idealistic… and bored, watching videos to kill the time. Amara Dawson’s bid for internet fame isn’t paying off—until she attracts the attention of a group of viral pranksters.
But Amara’s not prepared for how far the gang are prepared to take things, and she’s going to need help. What’s wrong with wanting to be famous?
The (In)famous ebook will be available from shop.2000AD.com, the 2000 AD app and Amazon’s Kindle store on 1 December. Or you can pre-order one of 150 copies of the special edition paperback from the 2000 AD webshop now!
My first video gets fifty views on my ViewTube channel, Amaramaramara, in the first week.
I wasn’t expecting a million—of course not, nothing that high—but only fifty? That’s messed up. Counting my extremely extended family, the people I hang out with when I’m forced to drop into meatspace interactions, and the people who I’m friends with thanks to the online school session I (thankfully) finished last year—
That’s not a lot.
And it’s not fair.
If it were just the views, I don’t think I’d mind so much. After all, this is my first attempt at being somebody online. Ultimately, I know I’m a nobody and it’s not as if I expected instafame or fortune. But only fifty views after everything? After all the work I’d put into the video—the editing software I’d splurged on with my allowance, the cool mystery script I’d written, having to bribe all of my annoying little siblings into rehearsing and performing—
No one cares, but they should’ve.
I worked so hard on getting everything together: hours of research on ViewTube, making sure that my video fit the ones trending, and had linked to everyone I could, urging anyone with the slightest amount of clout to share the video. It was the perfect video and yet, no bites. Barely any views.
In fact, the only comment on the video after the first few days is from one of my cousins on the other side of the city where we used to live.
So, pretty much nobody and no one.
I stare down at the comment from my cousin, a simple line of text that says Yo Amara, you’re killing it, and consider deleting it. It’s obviously not a bad comment and I guess I like my cousin, but—
This isn’t what I want.
Before I can click the little X next to the comment, I hear the sudden sound of chaos from the world outside of my tiny cube of a bedroom. First a loud clatter, and then the sound of shouting. It’s a familiar noise in our home once my younger siblings disengage from their school sessions and turn on each other for offline entertainment. I hate that I can figure out what time it is based on how loud the rest of the apartment gets every day.
As much as I love my siblings—most of the time—I also wish I wasn’t in charge of them all the time these days. Four children, four energetic personalities too big for a single teenager like me to handle. Before we’d moved into the family suite in the massive in-progress complex that our parents would be responsible for managing, I didn’t have to spend all my time with my siblings. We’d lived in a smaller building, one with an in-person school for them. Just a few months ago, my siblings—the twins Ria and Darren, Minnie stuck in the middle, and baby Tracey—had friends. They had more than each other. Most importantly? They had other, older people in charge of them.
People that weren’t me.
But moving to the new building where our parents have Responsibilities, as thousands of residents file in to fill the apartments as they’re finished and furnished, has changed things. Instead of teachers watching my siblings, I have to spend time with them so they don’t short-circuit our section of the apartment or set the building on fire. With thousands of people in the building so far, even the parks on the upper floors are off limits for them. So, I’m stuck in here with them more often than not because our parents have to do things like ‘work’ and ‘manage the move-in for all the residents’ and a ton of other boring things that I don’t exactly keep track of, but that keeps our parents away for most of the day.
And I hate it.
The door to my tiny bedroom slides open with a muted hiss that’s quickly overshadowed by the sound of every single one of my siblings rushing in and shouting over one another. It’s just loud and a lot all at once.
I wince, resisting the urge to cover my ears with my hands. I know I should be used to this by now because it’s an everyday occurrence, but I feel like my head is about to crack open. All of my siblings that can talk do. I catch snatches of the complaints, but none of the word spill makes sense.
Not at first.
I minimise the window on my screen and then turn around so that I can look at my siblings with a stern look straight up stolen from our busy mother. “One at a time or else I kick you all out and put a lock code on my door.”
It’s a threat that only works because they’re all so desperate to speak to someone with some kind of parental power. If our parents weren’t out of the suite from dawn until dinner time, this wouldn’t work. But I’m the only person that can deliver any judgements about the dozens of petty little problems they have across the day, and so they fall in line.
Silence reigns for a moment before Darren, with Tracey on his hip, pushes forward past his sisters and says, “Can you please tell Minnie to leave my game alone?” That sets off the other two, and their volume ratchets up another nearly deafening level until I wince and reach for the headset dangling over the edge of my monitor. The headset is a pricey VR one someone got me as a gift for graduating. It’s the kind that blocks out everything, and the kids clock the threat for what it is. If the headset goes on, I won’t surface from the VR communities I have been haunting until it’s past all of their bedtimes.
I thrust the headset out at my scowling siblings, brandishing it almost like I would a weapon, and say, “If you’re going to be loud like this…”
Silence follows the dangling end of my warning as the sullen quartet in front of me tries to show that they’re capable of being quiet.
I sigh loudly and let the headset drop down to my lap. Here’s the thing: I know that my siblings won’t simply go quietly into the rest of the apartment. If I don’t go out with them, they’ll be back within the hour and louder than before. “I’m only doing this because I want you all to stop arguing,” I say, directing a sharp and scathing look at the kids in front of me. “Give me ten minutes to check my messages and shut down, and I’ll be right out,” I say. When Ria opens her mouth wide to complain, I snap my fingers and then point sharply at the door to their bedroom. “Ten minutes of quiet out there or I put the headset on and pretend you goblins don’t exist until it’s time for us to eat. Choose wisely.”
The kids nearly trample each other on the way out, returning me to the dark silence from before. It should feel good to be respected, but it doesn’t.
That’s the thing, though: I only feel seen and surrounded by my siblings. And even then, they’re seeing me as a parent replacement, not as Amara-as-a-person.
At every other point—even more so with this ViewTube thing—it feels as though I’m trying to be seen in a crowd and no one’s looking in my direction.
With that on my mind, I’m prepared for more of the same when I glance back at my monitor and then prepare myself to delete my cousin’s comment on ViewTube page. But then I notice a bright blue notification at the top of the page.
“A message?” I lean in close to the page as if the proximity will reveal that it’s a fake notification or a glitch on the site. But no, it’s a real message from someone that I really don’t know.
The message is short, but life-changing even in its brevity.
ChannelDel: Your video was good. You should’ve gotten more views. If you’re looking for a way to get a bigger audience, hmu. I recognised the view from the balcony at 5:39. You’re in Timm Block, same as me. If you’re free around 2pm tomorrow, let’s link up at the park on the twentyfifth floor. I’ll be the guy with the pink ponytail and pet rock.—Del
I know, as I read the message, that I should pause to question… all of that. From the fact that the person, this ‘Del,’ figured out where I live from the view outside a balcony, to the whole… pet rock thing, this should be a whole bunch of red flags, and the flags are set on fire.
If not for the fact that I do want fame and fortune and more than fifty-freaking-views, I’d delete the message outright. Because I know better. I’ve seen the crime shows my parents watch when they think we’re all asleep. Even now, things are bad. I know this isn’t smart.
However, desperate times call for desperate measures. And besides, I don’t have that much time before my siblings decide to break down my door and return to chaos.
I reply to the message with a simple OK and then close everything down before I can overthink things and delete my entire account.
The exciting series charting the collpase of America and the rise of the Judges continues – get the special edition paperback and ebook now!
Judge Dredd is still in the future – but the present is scary enough without him! In JUDGES: What Measure Ye Mete, author C. E. Murphy takes you on a thrilling, disturbing case in a world that is slowly falling apart as the police are replaced with the Judges.
Out as now, What Measure Ye Mete is available from shop.2000AD.com, the 2000 AD app and Amazon’s Kindle store, plus you can now order one of 150 copies of the special signed limited edition paperbacl from the 2000 AD webshop!
In 2053, there’s not a lot left for the last few cops of what was once New York City to do. Officer Cera Cortez once dreamed of chasing down killers, but now she mostly just puts a friendly face on the implacable justice of the Judges.
Until a tiny robot falls onto her face screaming murder, giving her one last chance to do her job—and signs point to the killer being a Judge…
The exciting series charting the collapse of America and the rise of the Judges continues – buy now in ebook and special edition paperback!
JUDGES: Necessary Evil by Michael Carroll is the latest in the JUDGES novella series exploring the origins of Judge Dredd’s world.
United States of America, 2051 A.D. Chief Eustace Fargo is dead…
A routine stop, a gunshot, and the world changes. It’s been twenty years since Francesco Deacon first put on the badge, and it grows heavier every year; but today more than ever, there’s work to do.
And then Judges in Philadelphia pick up Dallas Hawker, a long-time fugitive and Deacon’s closest ever link to a crime-lord he’s been chasing his whole career…
The Necessary Evil ebook is available from shop.2000AD.com, the 2000 AD app and Amazon’s Kindle store. Or you can buy one of 150 copies of the special edition paperback from the 2000 AD webshop now!
The exciting series charting the collpase of America and the rise of the Judges continues – pre-order the special edition paperback now!
Judge Dredd is still in the future – but the present is scary enough without him! In JUDGES: What Measure Ye Mete, author C. E. Murphy takes you on a thrilling, disturbing case in a world that is slowly falling apart as the police are replaced with the Judges.
Out as an ebook on 25 August, What Measure Ye Mete will be available from shop.2000AD.com, the 2000 AD app and Amazon’s Kindle store, you can now order one of 150 copies of the special signed limited edition paperbacl from the 2000 AD webshop!
In 2053, there’s not a lot left for the last few cops of what was once New York City to do. Officer Cera Cortez once dreamed of chasing down killers, but now she mostly just puts a friendly face on the implacable justice of the Judges.
Until a tiny robot falls onto her face screaming murder, giving her one last chance to do her job—and signs point to the killer being a Judge…
The exciting series charting the collpase of America and the rise of the Judges continues – pre-order the special edition paperback now!
JUDGES: Necessary Evil by Michael Carroll is the latest in the JUDGES novella series exploring the origins of Judge Dredd’s world.
United States of America, 2051 A.D. Chief Eustace Fargo is dead…
A routine stop, a gunshot, and the world changes. It’s been twenty years since Francesco Deacon first put on the badge, and it grows heavier every year; but today more than ever, there’s work to do.
And then Judges in Philadelphia pick up Dallas Hawker, a long-time fugitive and Deacon’s closest ever link to a crime-lord he’s been chasing his whole career…
The Necessary Evil ebook will be available from shop.2000AD.com, the 2000 AD app and Amazon’s Kindle store on 7 July. Or you can pre-order one of 150 copies of the special edition paperback from the 2000 AD webshop now!
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…
