2000 AD Prog 2504 Preview: Azimuth, Dredd and Durham Red

Author: Ben Williams

Reading time: 2 minutes

2000 AD Prog 2504 arrives on 14th October and continues with the line-up that launched in Prog 2500. There's more Judge Dredd, Azimuth, Herne & Shuck, Durham Red and Ghosted.

Every strip in this prog is mid-story. Judge Dredd deals with the fallout from Judge Maitland's assassination, while Benu discovers the alien war is being fought outside Kinshasa's wall. Durham Red wakes among corpses with no memory of how she got there.

  • RELEASE DATE: 14th October £3.99
  • US RELEASE DATE: 28th October $7.99
  • COVER: TAZIO BETTIN

2000 AD Prog 2504 cover by Tazio Bettin

In 2000 AD Prog 2504

Judge Dredd: The New Future

Writer: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt. Colours: Henry Flint. 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 DREDD — he is the Law! Accounts Judge Maitland attempted to lower crime through social programmes, and was shockingly assassinated...

Judge Dredd: The New Future

Ghosted: Book Two

Writer: Guy Adams. Art: Megan Huang. Letters: Simon Bowland.

Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the far future. One of the fastest-growing mega-cities in the world, the metropolis is now a walled city-
world, so vast and divorced from the rest of the planet that it's virtually its own realm. Young citizen Benu found herself neurally connected to a soldier fighting an alien war — but upon fleeing the city, she's discovered that war is taking place outside the wall…

Ghosted: Book Two

Durham Red: Hungry City

Writer: Alec Worley. Art: Ben Willsher. Letters: Simon Bowland.

Late 22nd century. Of all the mutants that have operated as Search/Destroy agents, perhaps the most feared is vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Mistrusted by both the criminals she hunts and her fellow Strontium Dogs, Red has a formidable reputation that precedes her, and now she's awoken amongst dead bodies on a resort world with next to no memory of what happened...

Durham Red: Hungry City

Azimuth: How to Train Your Dagon

Writer: Dan Abnett. Art: Tazio Bettin. Colours: Matt Soffe. Letters: Rob Steen.

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. A stranger has ridden into town — none other than Ramone Dexter — and revealed that Azimuth is in fact Downlode recrafted by a rogue Artificial Intelligence...

Azimuth: How to Train Your Dagon

Herne & Shuck: Storming the Stone

Writer: David Barnett. Art: Lee Milmore. Colours: Quinton Winter. Letters: Annie Parkhouse.

The UK. Herne is a troubleshooter and hired help for many different magical factions. Accompanied by Shuck, a demon in dog form, he travels the country picking up work where he can, whether it be an exorcism or a rescue. Recently, he was tasked with saving young Carys from ritual sacrifice, and has made an enemy of the organisation known as St Michael. Now, they have her again, and Herne must lead a rescue...

Herne & Shuck: Storming the Stone

Pick up 2000 AD Prog 2504 in print from newsagents and comic book stores via Diamond.
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop and apps for iPad, & Android.

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