Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2249

This week sees everything wrap up in the prog, as 2000 AD make way for the bumper jumping-on issue coming next week. So that means we have the finales of the current Judge Dredd arc The House on Bleaker Street, Skip Tracer and his daughter in Eden, Jaegir with The Path of Kali along with Thargs Tales and the latest 3riller.

• UK and DIGITAL: 15 September £3.10
• NORTH AMERICA: 27 October $31 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: JUL211885
• COVER: PAUL MARSHALL (artist) DYLAN TEAGUE (colourist)

In this issue:

Judge Dredd: The House on Bleaker Street
by Kenneth Niemand (writer) Nick Percival (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

Mega-City One, 2143 AD. Home to over 160 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and violent crime is rampant. Tensions rest on a knife-edge and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, he’s trapped in a mysterious derelict house with an eerie reputation...

Tharg's 3rillers present The Mask of Laverna
by Robert Murphy (writer) Steven Austin (artist) Matt Soffe (colourist) Simon Bowlan (letterer)

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! London, 2021, and Adelphi is an Oracle, capable of communicating with the gods. Assisted by her guardian spirit Erwin, she keeps tabs on the the ancient deities. Now, gangster Genadi Chakarov is using magical means to terminate his whistle-blowing former partner...

Skip Tracer: Eden
by James Peaty (writer) Paul Marshall (artist) Dylan Teague (colourist) Jim Campbell (letterer)

The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s now home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned psi-tracker. Now, Blake and his infant daughter must escape from captivity... 

Terror Tales: The Thing in Cell 4
by John Tomlinson (writer) Silvia Califano (artist)

Experience the terrifying side of Thrill-power with these one-off tales from beyond the veil of sanity. Whether they be ghostly goings-on that send shivers up the spine or guts-to-the-wall splatterfests that sear the retina and paralyse the mind, nothing is what it seems in these glimpses of a realm beyond our own. In a London police station, Detective Constable Lee Ryall is interviewing a strange suspect called Skene... 

Jaegir: The Path of Kali
by Gordon Rennie (writer) Simon Coleby (artist) Len O'Grady (colourist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

The Greater Nordland Republic. While the Norts are currently engaged in a galaxy-wide war with the Southers, it falls to military officers such as Kapiten-Inspector Atalia JAEGIR of the Nordland State Security Police to investigate war criminals amongst her own ranks. She’s also suffering from the Strigoi curse, a fault in the Nort DNA. Now, after having been tortured by Southers, Jaegir’s determined to wipe out the enemy... 

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