Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2315
2000 AD Prog 2315 is packed this week, as the extra-length finale to Hope means that Proteus Vex spills over onto the back cover. There isn't a spare page to be had between Judge Dredd, Joe Pineapples and The Out. The 2000 AD goodness is bursting at the seams!
- UK and DIGITAL: 18 January, £3.50
- NORTH AMERICA: 1 March, $22 (per pack)
- DIAMOND: NOV221768
- COVER: NEIL ROBERTS
In Prog 2315
Judge Dredd: The Night Shifter
Writer: Ken Nieman
Art: Niccolo Assirelli
Colours: Peter Doherty
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, an activist from Puerto Plata has accused a hottie cook of being her torturer...
Joe Pineapples: Tin Man
Writer: Pat Mills
Art: Simon Bisley
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongroland Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!
Hope... In The Shadows Reel Two
Writer: Guy Adams
Art: Jimmy Broxton
Letters: Jim Campbell
An alternate 1940s USA. WWII is over, victory having been secured by occult means, and consequently magic is a part of everyday life. Mallory HOPE is one such skilled operative, though calling on the dark arts takes its toll on the user. He’s also a P.I., hired for all manner of down n’ dirty jobs — and an investigation into a cursed movie now finds him trapped in a mansion, the film’s power-warping reality...
The Out: Book Three
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Mark Harrison
Letters: Simon Bowland
The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now she’s being held and questioned after her brush with the Tankinar...
Proteus Vex: Crawlspace
Writer: Mike Carroll
Art: Jake Lynch
Colours: Jim Boswell
Letters: Simon Bowland
The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out...
Available in print from: newsagents and comic book stores via Diamond
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop and apps for iPad, Android, Windows 10
