Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2406 - Bumper-Size Issue!
This week's edition of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic is a bumper-sized 2000 AD Prog 2406! A 48-page bundle packed with excitement, featuring a special clash between 2000 AD icons Sam Slade and Johnny Alpha from Garth Ennis and Henry Flint, following their Dredd vs Robo-Hunter tale.
There's also a complete Terror Tale, a Dredd thriller from Ken Niemand and Dan Cornwell, and the latest episodes of The Out, Rogue Trooper, and Nightmare New York.
Plus, enjoy the return of Dan Abnett and Tazio Bettin's Azimuth, and the final episode of Brink epic Consumed. Thankfully, it's not the end of Brink, as work has started on Book 7: The Call of the Void!
- UK and DIGITAL: 30 October £4.99
- NORTH AMERICA: 4 December $31.99 (per pack)
- DIAMOND: AUG242084
- COVER: JOHN MCCREA WITH MIKE SPICER
In Prog 2406
Judge Dredd: Return of the Dead Chief Judges' Society
Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Dan Cornwell
Colours: Matt Soffe
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 the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, he’s having to deal yet again with a citizen who claims he’s possessed by the spirits of former Chief Judges...
The Out: Book Four
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Mark Harrison
Letters: Simon Bowland
The furthest edge of the universe. Cyd Finlea was a 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 lost her old pal Cheerio and said goodbye to her daughter Joey, she’s finding work...
New! Tharg's Terror Tales: Cell Therapy
Writer: Ed Whiting
Art: Dave Taylor
Letters: Jim Campbell
Experience the terrifying side of Thrill-power with these one-off tales from beyond the veil of sanity. Whether they be ghostly goings-on that send shivers up the spine or splatterfests that sear the retina and paralyse the mind, nothing is what it seems in these glimpses of a realm beyond our own. Now, the terrorist group S.A.N.E is hitting various targets in the UK, preaching a strange philosophy...
Nightmare New York
Writer: Kek-W
Art: John Burns
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Lower Manhattan, 1845. Paradise Square is at the centre of Five Points in Old New York, where five street corners meet. The early days of the North American metropolis are marked by a mix of poverty, organised crime and hardscrabble lives, where ragpickers rub shoulders with Christian missionaries. Young Lil, living rough on these dank streets, has just turned eighteen, and has been rescued by the mysterious Jimmy Blind...
New! Azimuth: The Fabled Basilisk
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. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams, which seem to have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter, who’s teamed up with Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson to save Downlode...
New! Robo-Hunter vs. Strontium Dog
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Henry Flint
Letters: Rob Steen
Sam Slade is a Robo-Hunter, a freelance tracker of rogue robots and missing droids. Together with his idiot understudy Hoagy and excitable robo-cigar Stogie, he’s been responsible for cracking some of Brit-Cit’s biggest cases. Now, his latest quarry is about to make him cross paths with Search/Destroy agent Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter from further in the future...
Brink: Consumed
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: INJ Culbard
Letters: Simon Bowland
The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division is investigating their reach...
Rogue Trooper: When a G.I. Dies
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Patrick Goddard
Letters: Rob Steen
Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where the atmosphere has been rendered poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, bred to be immune to the 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...
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