Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2362

Welcome to the festive edition of 2000 AD Prog 2362, where we wrap up the year with a bang! This prog is packed with both new and continuing stories, featuring some of the most beloved characters from the Galaxy's Greatest.

In the second half, you'll find the ongoing adventures of Helium, The Devil's Railroad, Enemy Earth and Feral & Foe, which will resume in 2024.

But in the first half, there is quite a treat waiting for you - a bunch of standalone stories starring Judge Dredd (sort of), Rogue Trooper, Anderson, Strontium Dog, and more.

Plus, there's a new chapter of Dan Abentt and Tazio Bettin's Azimuth. What a way to end the year!

• UK and DIGITAL: 13 December £5.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 6 March $28.99 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: NOV231655
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON (A) DYLAN TEAGUE (C)

In Prog 2362

Judge Dredd: A Matter of Life & Dredd

Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Tom Foster
Colours: Gary Caldwell
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 with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the poisoned Black Atlantic to the east. Unemployment is rife, and 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!

Azimuth: Snow Zone

Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Tazio Bettin
Colours: Matt Soffe
Letters: Jim Campbell

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams and portents, which seem to have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter..

Anderson, PSI-Division: The Game Within

Writer: Torunn Grønbekk
Art: Kieran McKeown
Colours: Pippa Bowland
Letters: Rob Steen

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Psi-Division is a section of Justice Department that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents — from precognition to exorcism, astral projection to pyrokinesis, its operatives deal with all manner of paranormal crimes. Cassandra ANDERSON is Psi-Div's top telepath, who has been responsible for saving the city on a number of occasions from supernatural threats...

Fiends of the Eastern Front: Silent Knight

Writer: Ian Edginton
Art: Tiernen Trevallion
Letters: Jim Campbell

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 person to meet Constanta — the vampire has popped up throughout history, in various countries and under various guises, and in Romania he ruled over his cowed subjects...

Strontium Dog: Alpha

Writer: Rufus Hound
Art: Dan Cornwell
Colours: Dylan Teague
Letters: Simon Bowland

Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These 'mutants' became a victimised underclass, forced into ghettos, and the only job open to them was bounty hunting. One such Search/Destroy agent, or STRONTIUM DOG, is Johnny Alpha, whose eyes emit piercing alpha waves. Partnered with his Viking buddy Wulf Sternhammer, they're good men in a bad galaxy...

Rogue Trooper: Runaway

Writer: Geoffrey D. Wessel
Art: Simon Coleby
Colours: F Segala & S. Del Grosso
Letters: Rob Steen

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where use of chemical weapons has rendered the atmosphere poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, bred to be immune to the planet's lethal cocktail of pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, they're searching for the traitor that sold them out...

Helium: Scorched Earth

Writer: Ian Edginton
Art: D'Israeli
Letters: Simon Bowland

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty- five per cent of the Earth's surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they've been followed...

Enemy Earth Book III

Writer: Cavan Scott
Art: Luke Horsman
Letters: Simon Bowland

The near future. Mother Nature has turned against the people that live upon the Earth's surface. Now, the planet's flora and fauna have mutated and are attacking humanity. As society crumbles, and survivors seek safety, young Zoe, who has lost her own family, has rescued Jules, who's the prime minister's son. Now, the plane carrying the PM and the two youths has been shot down en route to India, and they've been captured...

The Devil's Railroad

Writer: Peter Milligan
Art: Rufus Dayglo
Colours: Jose Villarrubia
Letters: Jim Campbell

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the carnage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it'll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey...

Feral & Foe: Bad Godesberg

Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Richard Elson
Letters: Jim Campbell

It's been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they've travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that's in trouble...

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