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It’s that time of the week again, Terrans, when we get to supercharge your imaginations with the finest in fantasy and sci-fi!

After last week’s takeover by Tharg’s nephew – Joko – we resume our regular business, with Max Normal, Scarlet Traces and Kingmaker carrying on where they left off a fortnight ago, plus a complete Dredd thriller from the Niemand and Holden droids, and the start of another Tharg’s 3rillers from James Peaty and new ‘bot on the block Brian Corcoran!

If that wasn’t enough to keep your diodes happy, also hitting the  shelves of your local Thrill-merchant this week is Megazine #408, which features the scrotnig conclusions to both the Dredd story The Crazy and Storm Warning, plus the penultimate instalments of Lawless: Ashes to Ashes and The Torture Garden, plus a complete Tale From the Black Museum by Rory McConville and Neil Googe.

Add to that interviews with art-droids Geoff Senior and Abigail Bulmer, and the first half of classic Starlord strip Mind Wars, and it’s another Thrill-packed package!

2000 AD Prog 2131 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 PJ Holden

 

JUDGE DREDD // THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CHIMPSKY

By Kenneth Niemand (w) P.J. Holden (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

SCARLET TRACES // HOME FRONT

Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

1968. It is decades since Mars waged war on Earth, and the major nations have access to Martian-derived technology, but Britain is still recovering from Martian bombardment in the 1940s, when much of the south of England was destroyed. This was followed by the arrival in the 1950s of two million Venusians, seeking refuge from Martian occupation. Now, the Martians have weaponised the sun, and are on the attack…

MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES

Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jim Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, and he’s now bought up old shuggy hall the Golden Pocket, a pivotal place in his childhood…

 

THARG’s 3RILLERS // THE CHIMERA

James Peaty (w) Brian Corcoran (a) Matt Soffe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! The Grind is a sprawling mega-city, where the divide between the haves and the have-nots is decidedly pronounced. Those that lack the credit are classed as ‘Dubes’ — short for ‘morally dubious’ — and are left to languish in the dark corners of the metropolis…

 

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, 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 believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…

Welcome, Earthlets, to the 2000 AD all-ages takeover issue for Prog 2130!

In an unusual act, Tharg has handed over the reins for this issue to his nephew – Joko-Jargo – who you might remember from last year’s Free Comic Book Day issue, along with the zarjaz strips aimed at readers of every generation. He’s back, and he’s got forty-eight zarjaz pages of scrotnig stories to thrill your circuits with!

Cadet Dredd returns, thanks to Chris Weston, with clone brother Rico in tow for an epic monster mash as he tangles with the awesome Grudzilla! Elswhere there’s more Mega-City mayhem as Psi-Judge Anderson tackles a dangerous videogame called Spellcraft, brought to you by the mids of Alec Worley and PJ Holden.

There’s also action on Nu-Earth for Rogue Trooper, by Cavan Scott and Nick Roche, a one-off Future Shock from Karl Stock and Brett Parson, and no less than TWO brand-new stories – Full Tilt Boogie by Alex De Campi and Eduardo Ocaña, and Finder & Keeper by Leah Moore, John Reppion and Davide Tinto.

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2000 AD Prog 2130 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 Neil Googe & Gary Caldwell

 

CADET DREDD // GRUDZILLA

By Chris Weston (w) Chris Weston (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

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. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — a zerotolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. CADET JOE DREDD —  together with his clonebrother Rico — is a rising star in Justice Department, and will one day be its finest officer. Make no mistake, he is the Law! 

 

FULL TILT BOOGIE

Alex De Campi (w) Eduardo Ocaña (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, and teenager Tee — together with her grandmother and cat — is a bounty hunter/hired help, operating from her patched-together spaceship the FULL TILT BOOGIE. Remarkably capable and resourceful for her age, there’s no job Tee won’t turn down, and when she’s paid to rescue the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison, it means braving the terrifying robot Borrower Bears…

 

FUTURE SHOCKS // THAT WEIRD KID

Karl Stock (w) Brett Parson (a) Simon Bowland (l)

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…

 

ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION // SPELLCRAFT

Alec Worley (w) PJ Holden (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Psi-Division is a section of Justice Department that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents — from precognition to exorcism, it deals with all manner of paranormal crimes, and is often the city’s first defence against supernatural threats. Cassandra ANDERSON is Justice Dept’s top telepath — warm, empathetic and often flippant, she’s not your usual Judge, and she still sees the good in the Big Meg’s citizens…

 

FINDER & KEEPER

Leah Moore & John Reppion (w) Davide Tinto (a) Pippa Mather (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Somewhere in the UK, 2019. Meera Hundal and Eliot Hunter are a pair of friends at the local Stonecroft school. Although essentially good kids, they find themselves in trouble more often than they’d like thanks to their inability to walk away from a fight. Strongwilled and not afraid to speak their minds, their latest escapade has landed them with community clean-up chores as a punishment — and this particular job they’re not going to forget in a hurry…

 

ROGUE TROOPER // SECRET OF THE KEEP

Cavan Scott (w) Nick Roche (a) Abigail Bulmer (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Nu Earth, just one planet among many caught up in a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers. Strategically vital, both sides are desperate to secure it but use of chemical weapons has rendered the atmosphere poisonous. Only Genetic Infantrymen like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind, can survive on its surface — and he, together with his biochip buddies, is hunting for the Traitor General that betrayed them…

Welcome to our latest pulse-pounding weekly issue, Terrans, where you can plunge head first into the awe-inspiring worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

Inside these pages you’ll find the final part of current Dredd thriller The Long Game and the Future Shock story from Thought Bubble pitchfest and portfolio winners Billy Higgins and Tony Allcock, plus Kingmaker, Scarlet Traces and Max Normal — all of whom will be returning in two weeks as next prog is a bumper all-ages special!

Also, head down to your friendly specialist comics store this week for it’s FCBD 2019 on Saturday 4 May, where you can not only pick up the Treasury of British Comics’ Funny Pages — featuring reprints of classic strips like Frankie Stein and Grimly Feendish — but also the 99p/99c 2000 AD Villains Takeover special, starring Judge Death, Slough Feg and more in all-new stories by Pat Mills, Rob Williams, Chris Weston, Kyle Hotz and more!

2000 AD Prog 2129 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 David Millgate

 

JUDGE DREDD // THE LONG GAME

By Michael Carroll (w) Mark Sexton (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, the truth behind treachery in organised crime outfit The Parliament has been discovered…

 

SCARLET TRACES // HOME FRONT

Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

1968. It is decades since Mars waged war on Earth, and the major nations have access to Martian-derived technology, but Britain is still recovering from Martian bombardment in the 1940s, when much of the south of England was destroyed. This was followed by the arrival in the 1950s of two million Venusians, seeking refuge from Martian occupation. Now, the Martians have weaponised the sun, and are on the attack…

 

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, 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 believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…

 

MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES

Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, and he’s now bought up old shuggy hall the Golden Pocket, a pivotal place in his childhood…

 

FUTURE SHOCKS // THEY SHOOT MONSTERS, DON’T THEY?

Billy Higgins (w) Tony Allcock (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)

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…

It’s another mega-wow Wednesday this week, Terrans – 2000 AD Prog 2127 is out now!

This Prog sees the continuation of Judge Dredd: The Long Game, Kingmaker, Max Normal, and the second strip in the brand new Scarlet Traces story PLUS the fantastical finale of Survival Geeks!

2000 AD Prog 2127 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 Cliff Robinson (a) Jim Boswell (c)

 

JUDGE DREDD // THE LONG GAME

By Michael Carroll (w) Mark Sexton (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, one of the made men of organised crime outfit The Parliament has been killed by Dredd…

 

SURVIVAL GEEKS // DUNGEONS & DATING (BASIC)

Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby (w) Neil Googe (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Somewhere in the outer limits of space/time, plunging through the planes of reality, is what looks like a regular suburban two-up two-down, but it is in fact powered by misfiring transdimensional technology. Inside live sci-fi obsessives Clive, Rufus and Simon, plus reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond. Now, they’ve entered a role-playing simulation of Clive’s invention…

 

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, 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 believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…

 

MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES

Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, and he’s now bought up old shuggy hall the Golden Pocket, a pivotal place in his childhood…

 

SCARLET TRACES // HOME FRONT

Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

1968. It is decades since Mars waged war on Earth, and the major nations have access to Martian-derived technology, but Britain is still recovering from Martian bombardment in the 1940s, when much of the south of England was destroyed. This was followed by the arrival in the 1950s of two million Venusians, seeking refuge from Martian occupation. Now, the Martians have weaponised the sun, and are on the attack…

Welcome, Thrill-hungry humanoids, to your weekly blast of Thrill-power, courtesy of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – the only title on the shelves to give you rad-burns simply by opening the cover.

This week 2000 AD is channelling atomic levels of zarjazness, so zip up your haz-suit, don the regulation gloves and hood, and enjoy…

For starters, we’ve got the start of a scrotnig new Judge Dredd story in the shape of ‘The Long Game’ by Michael Carroll and Mark Sexton!

We’ll also be returning to Scarlet Traces, the War of the Worlds legacy series by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli. The last time we left it in the second book of ‘Cold War’ (Progs 2023-2034 – also available as a graphic novel collection!), Earth-born Venusian Ahron Shakepseare had travelled to the planet that his parents had fled in a bid to find a way to repel the Martian occupiers. But the warmongering Martians have weaponised the sun, destroying mankind’s battle fleet, and now once again are taking the fight to humanity. Nowhere on Earth is going to be safe when the Tripods return…

On top of this delicious helping on zarjazosity, there’s more Survival Geeks, Kingmaker, and Max Normal! Prepare for blazing sci-fi action, Terrans, the likes of which your eye-pods will never have processed before!

2000 AD Prog 2126 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 D’Israeli

JUDGE DREDD // THE LONG GAME

By Michael Carroll (w) Mark Sexton (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. With the populace crammed into vast city blocks, unemployment is rife, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — a zero-tolerance police force empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, 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 believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…

 

SURVIVAL GEEKS // DUNGEONS & DATING (BASIC)

Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby (w) Neil Googe (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Somewhere in the outer limits of space/time, plunging through the planes of reality, is what looks like a regular suburban two-up two-down, but it is in fact powered by misfiring transdimensional technology. Inside live sci-fi obsessives Clive, Rufus and Simon, plus reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond. Now, they’ve entered a role-playing simulation of Clive’s invention…

 

MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES

Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, and he’s now bought up old shuggy hall the Golden Pocket, a pivotal place in his childhood…

 

SCARLET TRACES // HOME FRONT

Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

1968. It is decades since Mars waged war on Earth, and the major nations have access to Martian-derived technology, but Britain is still recovering from Martian bombardment in the 1940s, when much of the south of England was destroyed. This was followed by the arrival in the 1950s of two million Venusians, seeking refuge from Martian occupation. Now, the Martians have weaponised the sun, and are on the attack…

Borag Thungg, Earthlets – you are now channelling Thrill-power direct from the source.

2000 AD Prog 2125 is out now, and it’s guaranteed to frazzle your excitement diodes with the very best graphic entertainment with its fusion of fantasy and sci-fi in one awe-inspiring anthology!

This prog sees the explosive finale of Judge Dredd: Unearthed, and Dan Abnett’s scrotnig Grey Area, where a ‘God Star’ weapon has been unleashed. Add to this even more action in Kingmaker, Survival Geeks, and Max Normal, and you’ve got yourself a brain-meltingly zarjaz line-up!

You’ll be pleased to know the Abnett and Harrison droids will be reteaming somewhere in the near future in this pulse-pounding publication onb a new deep-space drama – The Out – so keep your optical sensors peeled…

In other news, next week continues the zarjazosity, with the start of a new case for Mega-City’s best cop, in the shape of The Long Game by Mike Carroll and Mark Sexton, as well as the next dispatch from mankind’s war with the martians in Scarlet Traces: Homefront, by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli!

So plug in and enjoy, Terrans!

2000 AD Prog 2123 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 Mark Harrison

JUDGE DREDD // UNEARTHED

By Rob Williams & Chris Weston (w) Patrick Goddard (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. The populace is crammed into vast city blocks, and unemployment is rife, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a Sov craft that has been buried since the Apocalypse War is freed…

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, 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 believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…

SURVIVAL GEEKS // DUNGEONS & DATING (BASIC)

Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby (w) Neil Googe (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Somewhere in the outer limits of space/time, plunging through the planes of reality, is what looks like a regular suburban two-up two-down, but it is in fact powered by misfiring transdimensional technology. Inside live sci-fi obsessives Clive, Rufus and Simon, plus reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond. Now, they’ve entered a role-playing simulation of Clive’s invention…

MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES

Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, so when he hears that shuggy hall the Golden Pocket is up for sale, he has an eye on buying it…

GREY AREA // MAKING HISTORY

Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ET arrivals are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Now, a blacktops team has gone rogue and launched a ‘God Star’ weapon at the Congruence…

Borag Thungg, Earthlets, and welcome to this week’s scrotnig delights of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

2000 AD Prog 2124 is out now, and it’s a real doozy!

Max Normal – how old were you when the Pinstripe Freak first swaggered into the pages of Judge Dredd?

Perhaps you’re a long-standing Squaxx dek Thargo, and you were picking up the prog back in 1977 when Max made his debut appearance in The Comic Pusher story. Maybe you remember him playing an integral part in Block Mania, or you might recall his solo strips in the annuals of the early eighties.

Since those heady days, Mega-City’s coolest cat kind of dropped out of the scene but he hasn’t been forgotten — he made something of a comeback in the Lenny Zero story Zero’s 7 in 2012, and then we caught up with the greying narc in No Comics For Old Men by Guy Adams and Ben Willsher in the Xmas issue Prog 2015.

Now, starting this prog, script-droid Adams has crafted a whole new series for Max, with art provided by Dan Cornwell, as we finally learn the origins of the shampagne-swilling shuggy champion — don’t miss a single episode, Thrill-groovers!

Elsewhere, we have the start of a new Dredd story in Unearthed, scripted by the Williams and Weston droids and drawn by Patrick Goddard, more Kingmaker and Survival Geeks, plus the penultimate part of the nail-chewingly tense Grey Area — enjoy!

2000 AD Prog 2123 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 Jon Davis-Hunt

JUDGE DREDD // UNEARTHED

By Rob Williams & Chris Weston (w) Patrick Goddard (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. The populace is crammed into vast city blocks, and unemployment is rife, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, 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 believe they may have the means to stop them — not least because Crixus can somehow manifest the Ebora, the world-spirit…

SURVIVAL GEEKS // DUNGEONS & DATING (BASIC)

Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby (w) Neil Googe (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Somewhere in the outer limits of space/time, plunging through the planes of reality, is what looks like a regular suburban two-up two-down, but it is in fact powered by misfiring transdimensional technology. Inside live sci-fi obsessives Clive, Rufus and Simon, plus reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond. Now, they’ve entered a role-playing simulation of Clive’s invention…

MAX NORMAL // HOW THE MAX GOT HIS STRIPES

Guy Adams (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Jom Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. MAX NORMAL was once Dredd’s go-to informer, the Pinstripe Freak who had his ear permanently to the slab, the shuggy-playing legend with a taste for shampagne and the high life, who cruised the streets of the metropolis picking up all manner of info. Forty years later, he’s left much of his nark larks behind him, but the city’s coolest cat can still get himself into trouble, especially with ape pal Vito…

GREY AREA // MAKING HISTORY

Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ET arrivals are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Now, a blacktops team has gone rogue and launched a ‘God Star’ weapon at the Congruence…

Welcome, Thrill-hungry humanoids, to the weekly wonder that is the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

2000 AD Prog 2123 is out now!

This issue sees a zarjaz new line-up commence in the shape of the second series of Kingmaker, a rip-roaring role-playing adventure for the Survival Geeks, and a complete Mega-City thriller featuring 22nd-century cop Judge Dredd!

Add to that the beginning of the climactic arc for Grey Area and you’ve got yourself another awe-inspiring package of cosmic excellence!

2000 AD Prog 2123 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 Leigh Gallagher

JUDGE DREDD // CITIZENSHIP

By Rory McConville (w) Jake Lynch (a) John Charles (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along  the  east  coast  of  post-apocalyptic  North  America. The  populace  is  crammed  into  vast  city  blocks,  and  unemployment  is  rife,  boredom  universal,  and  crime  is  rampant.  Only  the  Judges  —  empowered  to  dispense  instant  justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

SURVIVAL GEEKS // DUNGEONS & DATING (BASIC)

Gordon Rennie & Emma Beeby (w) Neil Googe (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Somewhere  in  the  outer  limits  of  space/time,  plunging  through  the  planes  of  reality,  is  what  looks  like  a  regular  suburban  two-up  two-down,  but  it  is  in  fact  powered  by  misfiring  transdimensional  technology.  Inside  live  sci-fi  obsessives  Clive,  Rufus  and  Simon, plus reluctant housemate Sam and pet Cthulhu Howard: explorers on the edge of beyond, they’re never far from trouble on the worlds they visit. Now, tensions are rising within the group, but Clive has invention that may help them pull together…

KINGMAKER // OUROBOROS

Ian Edginton (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The people of the Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace and harmony, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn — a race of aliens that occupied their world, destroying those that stood in their way. Recruiting the locals to aid their Shrike troopers, the Thorn

are hunting down all those with magical abilities, a  power  they’ve  been  strip-mining  for  their  own  ends.  Wizard  Ablard,  ork  Crixus  and  dryad Princess Yarrow believe they may have the means to stop them… 

GREY AREA // MAKING HISTORY

Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ET arrivals are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist  Kymn,  weapons  expert  Feo,  and  alien  transfer  Resting  Bitch  Face.  Kymn  and  Bitch, thought KIA, were actually seconded to a black-ops unit led by an insane bigot named Grell. It’s believed he’s going to disrupt the immient Congruence talks… 

It’s that time of the week again, Terrans, when the excitement levels in the psychosphere spike alarmingly as thousands of Squaxx open their Progs and stream pure zarjazosity!

2000 AD Prog 2122 is out now!!

This issue we’re channelling the scrotnig finales of no less than four stories as Judge Dredd: Machine Law, Tharg’s 3rillers Tooth and Nail, Skip Tracer: Louder Than Bombs and Jaegir: Bonegrinder all reach their explosive climaxes!

2000 AD Prog 2122 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 Alex Ronald

JUDGE DREDD // MACHINE LAW
by John Wagner (w) Colin MacNeil (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 100 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, his former protégé Logan has stepped up to become Chief Judge and has appointed a robot to the Council of Five…

SKIP TRACER // LOUDER THAN BOMBS
by James Peaty (w) Paul Marshall (a) Quinton Winter (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s now home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, with powerful psi-abilities. Now, Blake must stop a bomb plot at a concert…

THARG’S 3RILLERS // TOOTH AND NAIL
by Andi Ewington (w) Staz Johnson (a) Abigail Bulmer (c) Simon Bowland (l)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Max Ha is having a very bad day, capped by finding himself handcuffed and beaten by mystery Russian assailants. Max is the sole survivor of a massacre that left seventeen dead, and his interrogators want to know more about the man responsible, who dragged Max into this mess…

GREY AREA // THE GREY & THE BLACK
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ET arrivals are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Captain Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Kymn and Bitch, thought KIA, were actually seconded to a black-ops unit, which they’ve now fled…

JAEGIR // BONEGRINDER
by Gordon Rennie (w) Simon Coleby (a) Len O’Grady (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxy-wide war with the Souther forces, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals amongst her own ranks. Now, while on a mission with her team on Nu Earth, she’d taken command of Forward Firebase Gogol, under relentless attack by the Southers, and surrendered herself to their interrogators…

Welcome, Thrill-seekers, to your weekly refuge from the mundane demands of everyday reality — here in the pages of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic you can plunge into worlds beyond your imagining!

2000 AD Prog 2121 is out now!!

Judge Dredd, Skip Tracer, Tooth and Nail, and Jaegir barrel towards their conclusions next week as this get increasingly difficult for the Grey Area team in ‘The Grey & The Black’!

2000 AD Prog 2121 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 Steven Austin (a) Chris Blythe (c)

JUDGE DREDD // MACHINE LAW
by John Wagner (w) Colin MacNeil (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 100 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, his former protégé Logan has stepped up to become Chief Judge and has appointed a robot to the Council of Five…

SKIP TRACER // LOUDER THAN BOMBS
by James Peaty (w) Paul Marshall (a) Quinton Winter (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s now home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, with powerful psi-abilities. Now, Blake must stop a bomb plot at a concert…

THARG’S 3RILLERS // TOOTH AND NAIL
by Andi Ewington (w) Staz Johnson (a) Abigail Bulmer (c) Simon Bowland (l)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Max Ha is having a very bad day, capped by finding himself handcuffed and beaten by mystery Russian assailants. Max is the sole survivor of a massacre that left seventeen dead, and his interrogators want to know more about the man responsible, who dragged Max into this mess…

GREY AREA // THE GREY & THE BLACK
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ET arrivals are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Captain Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Kymn and Bitch, thought KIA, were actually seconded to a black-ops unit, which they’ve now fled…

JAEGIR // BONEGRINDER
by Gordon Rennie (w) Simon Coleby (a) Len O’Grady (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxy-wide war with the Souther forces, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals amongst her own ranks. Now, while on a mission with her team on Nu Earth, she’s taken command of Forward Firebase Gogol, which is under relentless attack by the Southers, and has offered her conditional surrender…