Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2350

Picture this: it's 1982 and the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, 2000 AD, decides to merge with Battle Action. This isn't the first time 2000 AD has merged with other titles, having already merged with Starlord and Tornado to create popular characters like Strontium Dog, Ro-Busters, Blackhawk, and The Mind of Wolfie Smith.

This special issue explores what would happen to Battle's characters if they were given a sci-fi/fantasy makeover and joined the 2000 AD empire. Characters like Major Eazy, Dredger, Hellman of Hammer Force, and El Mestizo are featured in this exciting issue.

In Prog 2350

Judge Dredd: Juves Rule OK!

Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Simon Coleby
Colours: Matt Soffe
Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Mega-City One, 2075 AD. Home to over 800 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. A teenage Cadet Dredd is a rising star in Justice Department, but the Judges and the metropolis itself are about to face a terrifying disaster...

Death Game 2049

Writer: Geoffrey D. Wessel
Art: Nick Dyer
Colours: John Charles
Letters: Jim Campbell

In the future, the privatised prisons gave rise to the brutal sport of Spinball, where the Death Row convict teams would play a live-action version of pinball, but on motorcycles and tooled up with all manner of lethal weaponry. These violent games were broadcast to a nation eager for spectacle until it was deemed too dangerous — but fifty years later, it's back and it's as bloody as ever...

El Mestizo: Demon With A Six-Gun

Writer + Art: Chris Weston
Letters: Simon Bowland

1860s Texas, and the legend of El Mestizo is known throughout the land. Born a slave, he escaped the plantation upon which he was forced to work and made it across the border, re-emerging during the American Civil War as a mercenary, working for both the North and the South. He had no allegiance to either the Union or the Confederacy — he sold his talents to the highest bidder. But El Mestizo now has a terrible secret...

Dredger: Time To Kill

Writer: Karl Stock
Art: Paul Marshall
Colours: Quinton Winter
Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Former Royal Marine turned DI6 agent Dredger is not a man to cross, nor get in the way of — tough, uncompromising and unwilling to negotiate, there isn't a situation he isn't prepared to punch, kick, or shoot his way out of. Few can get close to Dredger and though he was in the past partnered with former public schoolboy Simon Breed, who died in a bomb blast, his friendships tend to be short...

Hellman of Hell Force: Fiends of Ungeistwelt Ost

Writer: Arthur Wyatt
Art: Jake Lynch
Colours: Jim Boswell
Letters: Simon Bowland

Major Kurt Hellman was a Panzer tank commander, taking part in the 1940 German invasion of Belgium — but he refused to join the Nazi party, setting up ongoing conflicts with the SS. But now, in 1943, German scientists have created a gateway to Hell in a bid to overtake the Allies — and Hellman has found himself stationed there, punishment for his refusal to toe the line...

Major Eazy: The Treasure of Solomon

Writer: Gordon Rennie
Art: Dan Cornwell
Colours: Dylan Teague
Letters: Jim Campbell

The African desert, 1942. During the Allied campaign, few officers were as singular as Major Eazy — long-haired and laconic, this scruffy maverick never failed to irritate his superiors. With a cigar hanging from his lips and often found driving his distinctive Bentley, Eazy seemed crazy — but his eccentricities were overlooked because when it came to warfare, he always gets the job done...

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