2000 AD Prog 2459 Preview: Explosive Endings for Dredd and Void Runners

2000 AD Prog 2459 delivers a double dose of finales this week. Love getting excited about a finale. Especially when the stories have been enjoyable.

Judge Dredd's war against the worms reaches its explosive conclusion, following last week's cliffhanger. And to the Sea Return has been a wild ride. And Void Runners wraps up its second book, paving the way for more interstellar rebellion in the future.

Elsewhere, Red Dragon is approaching its own climax next issue, and Brass Sun and Rogue Trooper increase the tension as we head towards the end of 2025.

• UK and DIGITAL: 19 November £4.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 31 December $27.95 (Prog Pack)
• DIAMOND: SEP250169
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON WITH DYLAN TEAGUE

In Prog 2459

Judge Dredd: And to the Sea Return

Writer: Rob Williams. 
Art: Henry Flint.
Letters: Annie Parkhouse.

Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Home to over 250 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 mysterious mist has wafted in off the Black Atlantic, and Dredd has gone onboard the Barge...

Red Dragon

Writer: Rob Williams.
Art: Steve Yeowell & Patrick Goddard.
Colours: Dylan Teague.
Letters: Simon Bowland.

Siadwell Rhys was once a member of sixties British superhero team Cloud 9, who operated under the name RED DRAGON. When they disbanded due to illness and loss of powers, Siadwell returned to his home village in Wales, where his heavy drinking caught up with him. He died fighting against Masterman, but now, forty years later, journalist Martin Howe is looking into Red Dragon's past for a documentary...

Void Runners: Book Two

Writer: David Hine.
Art: Boo Cook.
Letters: Annie Parkhouse.

The far future. The Federation is made up of a huge number of planetary systems, and such an immense group of civilisations requires an enormous level of control. The Ankorites have taken it upon themselves to rule the Federation, using the drug Kali's Dust to stimulate visions, which is harvested from benign creatures called the Pleroma. VOID RUNNER Alice Shikari has decided to free people from the Federation...

Brass Sun: Pavane

Writer: Ian Edginton.
Art: INJ Culbard.
Letters: Simon Bowland.

The Orrery is a clockwork solar system, a clutch of planets orbiting a vast BRASS SUN, but the outer worlds are freezing as the sun dies. Young Wren was charged with finding the elements of the key that would restart the sun, and embarked on an epic quest with conductor novice Septimus. Now the two are separated, and Wren has partnered with Ariel O'Conner to fight back against the Enginemen...

Rogue Trooper: Ghost Patrol

Writer: Alex de Campi.
Art: Neil Edwards.
Colours: Matt Soffe.
Letters: Jim Campbell.

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where the atmosphere has been rendered poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, immune to the pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, the digitised souls of his dead comrades, he searches for the traitor that betrayed the clone-soldiers...

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