Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2416
Reading time: 2 minutes
2000 AD Prog 2416 aims to keep the freezing January chill away with the warmth of some freshly produced Thrills. This issue is packed with five ongoing tales, making it a thrilling thirty-two-page read. Featured stories include Judge Dredd, The Out, Fiends of the Western Front, Portals & Black Goo, and Hawk the Slayer. Enjoy the red-hot excitement!
- UK and DIGITAL: 22 January £3.80
- NORTH AMERICA: 5 March $24.99 (Prog Pack)
- DIAMOND: NOV241785
- COVER: DAVE TAYLOR
In Prog 2416
Judge Dredd: Soft
Writer: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt
Art: Jake Lynch
Colours: Matt Soffe
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Home to over 250 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, in the wake of Judge Maitland's assassination, the repercussions are still being felt for Sector 304...
Hawk the Slayer: The Last of Her Kind
Writer: Alec Worley
Art: Simon Coleby
Colours: Gary Caldwell
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
It is a time of legend. HAWK THE SLAYER defeated his evil brother Voltan some years before, and now he and his compatriots are keeping an eye on the malign spread of the Black Wizards' influence. Rumours of dark magic abound, and armed with his fabled Mindsword, Hawk must keep the peace. Now he's entered the city of Valensfort, ruled by the Lady Morlaine, who's using necromancy to maintain order...
Portals & Black Goo: A Quorum of Fiends
Writer: John Tomlinson
Art: Eoin Coveney
Colours: Jim Boswell
Letters: Simon Bowland
In the near future, the job market is more perilous than ever and Generation Y must take on any task to make ends meet. Kroy Plemons was a rider for Devouroo — a food-delivery service for creatures of myth and legend. Devouroo policy is ruthless and Kroy has in the past barely escaped with his life after being given the night shift, when London's most lethal denizens are hungry. Indeed, there's unrest across the capital...
Fiends of the Western Front: Wilde West
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 now he's in North America in the late nineteenth century...
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...
Available in print from: newsagents and comic book stores via Diamond
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop and apps for iPad, Android, Windows 10
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