Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2371

This week's 2000 AD Prog, Prog 2371, is a special edition celebrating forty-seven years of thrilling stories. This issue is packed with exciting strips such as Dredd's current story A Better World, Thistlebone, The Fall of Deadworld, Indigo Prime, and Full Tilt Boogie. Get ready for some circuit-shattering action!

The lineup is an awesome showcase of the work that has been present in 2000 AD for over four and a half decades.

• UK and DIGITAL: 28 February £5.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 1 May $24.50 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: JAN241898
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON (a) DYLAN TEAGUE (c)

In Prog 2371

Judge Dredd: A Better World

Writer: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt
Art: Henry Flint
Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Mega-City One, 2146 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, Accounts Judge Maitland has been conducting an experiment in Sector 304 in a bid to reduce crime...

Indigo Prime: Black Monday

Writer: Kek-W
Art: Lee Carter
Letters: Jim Campbell

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, with most ofcatastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, with most of the personnel lost, and its assets acquired by the company ICP...

Full Tilt Boogie: Book Two

Writer: Alex de Campi
Art: Eduardo Ocana
Colour: Eva De La Cruz
Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, teenager Tee — together with her grandmother and cat — is a bounty hunter/hired help, operating from her spaceship the FULL TILT BOOGIE. Tee was paid to rescue the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison. In the process, she encountered a resurrected Anubite warrior, a member of the enemy race with whom the Luxine Empire was at war. Now, they’ve sought refuge on Tanzagar...

The Fall of Deadworld: Retribution

Writer: Kek-W
Art: Dave Kendall
Letters: Simon Bowland

The planet that became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a parallel dimension. But the end of days is here, and creatures called the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. While Sov forces have take advantage of the chaos and invaded, Jess Childs and co have been trying to save Judge Fairfax — but in the process Jess has been sucked through a portal...

Thistlebone: The Dule Tree

Writer: T.C. Eglington
Art: Simon Davis
Letters: Simon Bowland

Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, where she suffered at the hands of THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. One man in the village, Malcolm Kinniburgh, was keeping the Thistlebone legend alive — but it seems to be connected with an old ‘70s horror film...

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