2000 AD Prog 2479 Preview - Thought Bubble Winners Make Their 2000 AD Debut

2000 AD Prog 2479 hits shelves on 22nd April, and it's a packed issue. Judge Dredd wraps up the tense Flames and White Phosphorous storyline, while Brink, Silver, and Helium continue their latest chapters. The highlight for many readers will be Future Shocks: Creature Featurette - written by Lilith Allen with art by Philip Read, this brand-new short story comes from the winners of the 2000 AD Thought Bubble talent search, making their debut in the Galaxy's Greatest Comic.

"It's about a Lovecraftian pigeon monster who has an existential crisis," says winning writer Lilith Allen. Allen is twenty-six and originally from Newcastle upon Tyne. She has lived in Edinburgh since moving there in 2019.

Missed last week? Read our 2000 AD Prog 2478 preview here.

• RELEASE DATE: 22nd April £3.99
• COVER: STEVEN AUSTIN WITH MATT SOFFE

In Prog 2479

Judge Dredd: Flames and White Phosphorous

Writer: TC Eglington.
Art: Paul Marshall.
Colours: Quinton Winter.
Letters: Annie Parkhouse. 

Mega-City One, 2148 AD. Home to over 300 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Tensions are on a knife-edge, 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 pair of teens are waging a war of revenge against certain elite business types...

Brink: The Call of the Void

Writer: Dan Abnett.
Art: INJ Culbard.
Letters: Simon Bowland. 

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. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division is investigating their reach...

Silver: Malignant

Writer: Mike Carroll.
Art: Joe Currie.
Letters: Simon Bowland. 

Earth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the resting place of a five hundred-year-old vampire, who may just help them against the alien Sepsis, who invaded the planet a few decades earlier. The vamp, called Baroness DeSilva, has proved powerful in battling the extra-terrestrials, and now, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, has just been instrumental in blowing up a nuclear facility...

Future Shocks: Creature Featurette

Writer: Lilith Allen.
Art: Philip Read.
Letters: Rob Steen. 

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…

Helium: Red October

Writer: Ian Edginton.
Art: D'Israeli.
Letters: Annie Parkhouse. 

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eightyfive per cent of the Earth's surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged from a city below the belt, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge was tasked with protecting him, but it came at great cost...

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