2000 AD Prog 2129 Preview

Out this Wednesday (1st May), it's the 2000 AD Prog issue 2129 featuring 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 the super cool Max Normal, before a weeks break from the current story's as next prog is a bumper all-ages special.

• UK and DIGITAL: 1st May 2019 £2.85
• NORTH AMERICA: 1st June 2019 $22.40 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: MAR191963
• COVER: DAVID MILLGATE

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD: THE LONG GAME
by Michael Carroll (writer) Mark Sexton (artist) John Charles (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 — 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
by Ian Edginton (writer) D'Israeli (artist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

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
by Guy Adams (writer) Dan Cornwell (artist) Jim Boswell (colourist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

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?
by Billy Higgins (writer) Tony Allcock (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

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...

KINGMAKER: OUROBOROS
by Ian Edginton (writer) Leigh Gallagher (artist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

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...

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