2000 AD Prog 2115 Preview

It’s that time of the week again! Get ready for another thirty-two pages of scintillating sci-fi action from 2000 AD.  There’s tense action in Brink and Skip Tracer, the finale of Fiends of the Western Front, there's another 3rillers in the shape of the supernatural Keeper of Secrets by Robert Murphy and Steven Austin, and the big one with John Wagner and Colin MacNeil reuniting once again for the start of a new Judge Dredd story Machine Law that picks up the plot threads from Harvey that ran in Progs 2024-2029. There's also a superb cover full of detail.

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• UK and DIGITAL: 23rd January 2019 £2.85
• NORTH AMERICA: 23rd February 2018 $22.40 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: NOV181941
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON (artist) DYLAN TEAGUE (colourist)

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD: MACHINE LAW
by John Wagner (writer) Colin MacNeil (artist) Chris Blythe (colourist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

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 - empowered to dispense instant justice - can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD - he is the Law! Robot Judges have been trialled before, with disastrous results - but now the new generation are appearing on the streets...

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 HSD, has gone undercover on Yuliya Habitat to look into sect activity, and now she and fellow officer Ludo Gentry are confronting the ringleaders...

SKIP TRACER: LOUDER THAN BOMBS
by James Peaty (writer) Paul Marshall (artist) Quinto Winter (colourist) (artist) 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, with powerful psi-abilities. Now, Blake must investigate a terrorist cell...

THARG'S 3RILLERS: KEEPER OF SECRETS
by Robert Murphy (writer) Steven Austin (artist) Pippa Mather (colourist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story - a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! London, 2019, and during the day Jon Tanner is an apprentice butcher at Smithfield Market. At night, he likes to live it large at the capital's many clubs - but when he meets a young woman called Jemima on the dancefloor, he's responsible for unleashing a dangerous ancient entity...

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 encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to meet Constanta - the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, Constanta is battling the giant bats of the Black Max...

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