Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2201

After last weeks "jumping-on" prog, it's back to normal this week with four stories continuing from prog 2200 and one new one - joining the line-up this issue of Judge Dredd, Skip Tracer, Stickleback and Hook-Jaw is a new Fiends of the Eastern Front tale, Constanta, from Ian Edginton and Tiernen Trevallion, telling the origins of the vampire warrior.

The progs are usually good for covers, but Trevallion has smashed it this week with a brilliant cover to go with the new Fiends of the Eastern Front tale.

• UK and DIGITAL: 30 September £3.10
• NORTH AMERICA: 30 October $24 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: JUL201379
• COVER: TIERNEN TREVALLION

In this issue:

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, as the city recovers, Accounts Judge Maitland may have found a way for MC-1 to thrive...

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...

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, he’s been hired at great expense to bodyguard pop star India Sumner...

Fiends of the Eastern Front: Constanta
by Ian Edginton (writer) Tiernen Trevallion (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to meet Constanta — the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, in 1921, an British pilot, Lieutenant Tim Wilson, has travelled to Romania in search of him...

Hook-Jaw
by Alec Worley (artist) Leigh Gallagher (artist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

Cornwall, 2020. 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 encountered him lived to tell the tale, so terrible was his hunger. Now, Jack Noon has just seen his Uncle Kenver killed, seemingly devoured by perpetrators unknown...

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