2000 AD Prog 2111 Preview

To celebrate the festive season, todays 2000 AD prod is a bumper 100-page issue, featuring complete Christmassy tales for Judge Dredd and Durham Red, plus the start of new series for Skip Tracer and Fiends of the Western Front alongside the continuing Brink.

In addition to all that, there's the long-awaited final episode of Caballistics, Inc. - just eleven years on the making! - as well as new stories for Celtic warrior Sláine and the apocalyptic horror that is The Fall of Deadworld.

But wait, there's more! You also have no less than two interviews with a pair that have played pivotal roles in the development of the 2000 AD Prog over its forty-year history - Kelvin Gosnell and Richard Burton. There's plenty to keep you occupied over Christmas whilst there's the usual small break for some holidays.

• UK and DIGITAL: 12th December 2018 £4.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 12th January 2018 $9.99
• DIAMOND: OCT181871
• COVER: JOHN HIGGINS

In this issue:

Judge Dredd: Jingle All the Way
by TC Eglington (writer) Boo Cook (artist) Annie Parlhouse (letterer)

Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to over 100 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and crime is rampant. Tensions rest on a knife-edge and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD - he is the Law!

Caballistics, Inc.: Visiting Hour
by Gordon Rennie (writer) Dom Reardon (artist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

During the Second World War, a department was formed within the Ministry of Defence to combat Nazi occult warfare. When its funding was scrapped it was bought up by reclusive millionaire rock star Ethan Kostabi and turned into a new paranormal investigation outfit CABALLISTICS, INC. However, Kostabi had his own agenda, and his employees had to battle to bring him down. Now, they’re counting the cost...

Fall of Deadworld: Running Scared
by Kek-W (writer) Dave Kendall (artist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

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. A band of resistance fighters has attacked Sector House 13, but two of them, Spike and Patti, have become separated, and are at the mercy of Judge Fear...

Skip Tracer: Louder Than Bombs
by James Peaty (writer) Paul Marshall (artist) Dylan Teague (colourist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

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, who was left with psychic abilities after a clash on an alien planet...

Sláine: The Bogatyr
by Pat Mills (writer) Chris Weston (artist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

Albion. Celtic warrior SLÁINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland, but is now a wanderer, seeking adventure where the Goddess directs him. Having battled the Drune Lords on the Isle of Monadh, he's now travelled to the city of New Troy, with the intention of taking the fight for Albion's freedom to the tyrannical Emperor Brutus...

Brink: High Society
by Dan Abnett (writer) INJ Culbard (artist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. Bridget Kurtis, investigator with the Habitat Security Division, was involved in a sect-crime case that saw her partner murdered. Now, she's gone undercover on Yuliya Habitat, but she's been discovered, and is desperately trying to talk her way out of summary execution...

Fiends of the Western Front
by Ian Edginton (writer) Tiernen Trevallion (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he and his comrades encountered the terrifying Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon, who feasted on the blood of their Russian enemies. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to encounter Constanta on the battlefield - the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916...

Durham Red: Three Gifts
by Alec Worley (writer) Ben Willsher (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

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 former Search/Destroy agent is vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Feared by both the criminals she hunts and her fellow Stronts, Red has a formidable reputation that precedes her...

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