2000 AD Prog 2485 Preview - The Oubliette Continues With a Dredd Twist

2000 AD Prog 2485 hits shelves on 3rd June, and it's a packed issue. This prog sees a major shift in the Judge Dredd saga. Dredd himself is strangely absent, and Mega-City One is still reeling from the psychic fallout of the Black Tower's manifestation. It falls to former psi-Judge turned private investigator Lana Locke (introduced in Prog 2470), and her fellow P.I. Joe Fargo, to figure out what's going on. It's the first of several Finders interludes within the Oubliette mega-epic.

Elsewhere, Ben Wheatley and Simon Coleby's Judge Dee returns after its mid-series break, picking up with the demon-possessed psi-operative hot on the trail of a Sov plot to free a dangerous spirit from the walls of Bleeke Mansion. There's also more Silver, Brink and Helium.

• RELEASE DATE: 3rd June £3.99
• LUNAR RELEASE DATE: 17th June $7.99
• COVER: JAKE LYNCH

In 2000 AD Prog 2485

Judge Dredd Rico: The Outbliette

Writer: Ken Niemand.
Art: Jake Lynch.
Colours: Emily Roach.
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. Crime is rampant and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE RICO — he is the Law! Now, the city is under psychic attack as a mysterious black tower has materialised in the metropolis, causing chaos...

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. 
Colours: 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... 

Judge Dee

Writer: Ben Wheatley. 
Art: Simon Coleby. 
Colours: Jack Davies. 
Letters: Simon Bowland.

Mega-City One, 2148 AD. JUDGE DEE is a psi-operative in Justice Department's Psi-Division, in which psychic powers are deployed in the fight against supernatural threats as well as everyday crime. She has an unmatched arrest record, which is causing some suspicion amongst her superiors — however, little do they know that she is host to a demon that is assisting her in her investigations... 

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...

Pick up 2000 AD Prog 2485 in print from newsagents and comic book stores via Diamond. 
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