OUT TODAY: 2000 AD Prog 2044
16th August 2017
Welcome to another scintillating slice of zarjaz sci-fi – 2000 AD Prog 2044 is out now!
The long-awaited return this prog of magical P.I. Mallory Hope takes place this week after a lengthy hiatus! This dark and moody horror/noir hybrid is set in an alternate 1940s Hollywood where magic is a part of everyday life. Hope is one such skilled operative, though calling on the dark arts takes its toll on the user. He’s also a private investigator, hired for all manner of down n’ dirty jobs, and now his services are required to find a missing boy, the child star Buster Ritz…
2000 AD Prog 2044 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps!
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JUDGE DREDD // OUROBOROS
by Michael Carroll (w) Paul Marshall (a) Quinton Winter (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2139 AD. Home to over 72 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Unemployment is rife, poverty widespread, and crime is rampant. Only the zero-tolerance Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, mutant Paradox Vega has given him a lead on dangerous new drug Spike…
Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
GREY AREA // SIGNAL SIX TWENTY-FOUR
by Dan Abnett (w) Mark Harrison (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The mid twenty-first century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ETs attempting to arrive on the planet 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. Confronted with all manner of off-world life-forms, they have to keep the peace…
Grey Area created by Dan Abnett & Karl Richardson
THE ALIENIST // INHUMAN NATURES
by Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie (w) Eoin Coveney (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
England, 1908. Madelyn Vespertine, an Edwardian woman of unknown age and origin, investigates strange events of an apparently occult nature, accompanied by Professor Sebastian Wetherall. Little do those that meet the pair know that the Professor is actually an out-of-work actor called Reginald Briggs, a stooge covering for the fact that Madelyn is not human. Now, she has teamed up with the sinister Professor Praetorius to look into a time-breach…
The Alienist created by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby & Eoin Coveney
GREYSUIT // FOUL PLAY
by Pat Mills (w) John Higgins (a) Sally Hurst (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Bolivaria, 2014. John Blake is a GREYSUIT, a Delta-Class assassin working for a branch of British Intelligence. Given superhuman powers through extreme mental conditioning, Greysuits are feared for their ruthlessness. But Blake’s programming has broken down, and his memories have returned. Now, he’s getting payback on his handlers. He’s targeted corrupt arms dealer Hugo Prince, determined to bring him to justice…
Greysuit created by Pat Mills & John Higgins
HOPE // …FOR THE FUTURE
by Guy Adams (w) Jimmy Broxton (a) Simon Bowland (l)
An alternate 1940s Hollywood. WWII is over, victory having been secured by occult means. Now, magic is a part of everyday life, its practitioners commonplace. Mallory HOPE is one such skilled operative, though calling on the dark arts takes its toll on the user. He’s also a private investigator, hired for all manner of down n’ dirty jobs, and now his services are required to find a missing boy, the child star Buster Ritz!…
Hope created by Guy Adams & Jimmy Broxton
