Comics

OUT NOW: 2000 AD Prog 2089

11th July 2018

OOK OOK! Go ape for some hirsuite high-altitude hoodlumism – 2000 AD Prog 2089 is out now!

This week we wave farewell to both Skip Tracer and Durham Red as they reach their respective finales, while Judge Dredd battles monkeys on a criminal mission to rob the rich in the climactic instalment of Elevator Pitch from the Williams and Weston droids.

Add to that the latest episodes of The Order and The Fall of Deadworld, and you have a Prog worthy of falling to your knees and genuflecting before!

2000 AD Prog 2089 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 to locations in the UK is free!

Cover by Chris Weston

JUDGE DREDD // ELEVATOR PITCH
by Rob Williams (w) Chris Weston (a) chris Blyhte (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to 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, a newly opened space elevator for the rich has been hijacked by an ape gang…

THE ORDER // THE NEW WORLD
by Kek-W (w) John Burns (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wyrms, creatures from another plane that systematically break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a secret band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But the Wyrms have fractured time, noble robot knight Ritterstahl has been lost, and Anna Kohl is determined to find him…

SKIP TRACER // HEAVY IS THE HEAD
by James Peaty (w) Paul Marshall (a) Dylan Teague (c) Simon Bowland (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 an easy refuge for wanted criminals. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker-for-hire. Now, he’s learned the truth behind ‘the Crown’…

DAMNED: THE FALL OF DEADWORLD
by Kek-W (w) Dave Kendall (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
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: riots, storms, food shortages. Creatures known as the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. Now, Judge Fairfax is in the hands of the enemy, and his young ward Jess has vowed to rescue him, her team having breached the Sector House walls…

DURHAM RED // BORN BAD
by Alec Worley (w) Lee Carter (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by Strontium 90 fallout. These ‘mutants’ became a victimised underclass, forced into ghettos, with bounty hunting the only job open to them. One such Search/Destroy agent is ruthless vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Out of work and needing cash, she’s been hired by dying mutant ganglord Monkey Harris to find his mother…