2000 AD Prog 2483 Preview - The Oubliette Begins

2000 AD Prog 2483 lands this week, and it's the issue we've been waiting for since Prog 2460 first teased that the enigmatic Oubliette could be something big. This week sees a major Dreddverse event kick off. And it's a story so big that the Galaxy's Greatest Comic can't contain it on its own.

Headlining 2000 AD Prog 2483 is the first double-length episode of The Oubliette by Ken Niemand and Dan Cornwell. Ol' Stoney-Face wakes up inside the titular dungeon with no memory of how he got there - or who put him there.

The story then spills over into Judge Dredd Megazine 492, on sale the same week, where Niemand teams with Nick Percival on The Black Tower. An ominous structure materialises in the heart of Mega-City One, triggering a city-wide psychic shock and tying both threads together over the summer.

New to the arc? Messengers, the Dredd story leading directly into The Oubliette, is a free download on 2000AD.com. Just scan the QR code on the inside back cover of this week's prog.

• RELEASE DATE: 20th May £3.99
• LUNAR RELEASE DATE: 3rd June $7.99
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON WITH DYLAN TEAGUE

Inside 2000 AD Prog 2483

Judge Dredd: The Oubliette

Writer: Ken Niemand. 
Art: Dan Cornwell.
Colours: Chris Blythe. 
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, with the toxic Black Atlantic on one side and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. Crime is rampant, tensions run a knife-edge, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

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...

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 eighty-five 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...

Available in print from: newsagents and comic book stores via Diamond. 
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop and apps for iPad, Android, Windows 10.