Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2324

2000 AD Prog 2324 this week features a few endings with the pulsating finales to both Judge Dredd thriller Succession and Proteus Vex’s current arc Crawlspace. Plus The Out takes an extended hiatus after this episode, returning in a couple of months’ time with the concluding instalments of Book III.

Elsewhere, we have the continuing latest arc of The Order, and 2022 Thought Bubble winners Tom Watts and Mike Walters have their Future Shock Love Birds published which is definitely something to pay close attention to.

• UK and DIGITAL: 22 March £3.50
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• DIAMOND: JAN231771
• COVER: LEONARDO MANCO

In Prog 2324

Judge Dredd: Succession

Writer: Ken Neimand
Art: Leonardo Manco
Colours: Chris Blythe
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, a reshuffle at the top of Curare Corp has become a violent free-for-all...

The Out: Book Three

Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Mark Harrison
Letters: Simon Bowland

The furthest edge of the universe. 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, having learned what the Zoto have done to her, is looking for answers about the Up with old pal Cheerio...

Future Shocks: Love Birds

Writer: Tom Watts
Art: Mike Walters
Letters: Annie Parkhouse

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...

The Order: Heart of Darkness

Writer: Kek-W
Art: John Burns
Letters: Jim Campbell

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, members of The Order are battling Bacon’s forces at the edge of time itself...

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...

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