Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2200
Don’t delay, jump on board today - 2000 AD Prog 2200 is the perfect jumping-on issue for the greatest comic in the galaxy!
Twice a year the legendary weekly anthology makes it easier than ever for new and lapsed readers to jump on board, the ideal way to step onto the Thrill-train that is 2000 AD!
Rob Williams (Suicide Squad), Arthur Wyatt (Dredd movie tie-in), and Boo Cook (Elephantmen) follow up on this summer’s mega-event, ‘End of Days’, with Judge Dredd: Carry The Nine, where the Judge Dredd strip continues its long tradition of reflecting current events by seeing a simple solution to the problem of crime in Mega-City One...
The longest-running series for 2000 AD from Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy) - Sinister Dexter - continues with a shocking turn of events. They’ve worked together - on and off - for 25 years, but could the partnership of mercenary gun sharks Finnigan Sinister and Ramone Dexter be coming to an end ... with a blast?
After the shocking surprise at the end of ‘The Thru'Penny Opera’ back in 2014, Ian Edginton and D’Israeli’s Stickleback returns with the story of how the genius detective Sherlock Holmes transformed himself into the kingpin of crime in Victorian London. Time has not diminished the impact of Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker’s distinctive style on this steampunk series with a twist. Welcome back, Stickleback - London needs you!
And forget Jaws - Hook-Jaw is the real terror from the deep (and the sequels are way better). Escaping from the pages of the controversial Action!, this pelagic predator is now chomping his way through the pages of its spiritual successor! A great new series for old comic and horror fans alike!
Cover: Tim Napper
Judge Dredd: Carry the Nine
by Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt (writer) Boo Cook (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)
Mega-City One, 2142 AD. Home to over 140 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only the Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, Dredd and the city attempt to recover after the destruction wrought by the Four Horsemen...
Future Shocks: Omnidetectorists
by Rory McConville (writer) Joel Carpenter (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)
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...
Hook-Jaw
by Alec Worley (artist) Leigh Gallagher (artist) Simon Bowland (letterer)
NEW STORY! His name is legend, a myth that has passed into popular culture via stories, word of mouth, comics, merchandise, and more — that of the formidable Great White shark known as HOOK-JAW. A spear protruding from his lower jaw, few who encounter him live to tell the tale, so terrible is his hunger. Bodies rent asunder in his wake, the sea stained red with the blood of his victims, he’s a true terror of the deep...
Sinister Dexter: Ghostlands
by Dan Abnett (writer) Nicolo Assirelli (artist) John Charles (colourist) Simon Bowland (letterer)
Gun-sharks Finnigan SINISTER and Ramone DEXTER are the best hitmen money can buy in the future city of Downlode. Having whacked Holy Moses Tanenbaum, a ganglord from an alternate dimension whose presence threatened the fabric of reality, they’ve found killing him reset the continuum, meaning no one knows who they are. Now, a rogue A.I. is at large, and the duo have teamed up with Carrie Hosanna and Billi Octavo...
Skip Tracer: Hyperballad
by James Peaty (writer) Paul Marshall (artist) Dylan Teague (colourist) Simon Bowland (letterer)
The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem, where it’s become home to every kind of wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACERNolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, who wields powerful psi-abilities. Now, following Nimrod’s attempt to destroy the Cube, it’s in orbit above Balbuena...
Stickleback: New Jerusalem
by Ian Edginton (writer) D’Israeli (artist) Jim Campbell (letterer)
London, the end of the nineteenth century. STICKLEBACK is a master criminal, pulling the strings amidst the denizens of the capital’s underworld, and led a gang of freaks, oddballs and semi-supernatural entities that had the city under their thumb. Mystery has always surrounded his past, and his identity has now been revealed as none other than Sherlock Holmes himself. But London faces a dire threat from otherworldly creatures...
