Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2417

by Benjamin Williams
26th January, 2025
2 minutes

The Galaxy's Greatest Comic is here to keep you entertained with more exciting stories in 2000 AD Prog 2417.

In this edition, we say goodbye to Cyd as we reach the end of Book Four of The Out. But don't worry - Abnett and Harrison are already working on the next exciting story arc. This issue also includes a complete Judge Dredd story by Mike Carroll and Nicolo Assirelli, along with Fiends of the Western Front, Portals & Black Goo, and Hawk the Slayer to round out the lineup!

  • UK and DIGITAL: 29 January £3.80
  • NORTH AMERICA: 5 March $24.99 (Prog Pack)
  • DIAMOND: NOV241785
  • COVER: MARK HARRISON

2000 AD Prog 2417 cover by Mark Harrison

In Prog 2417

New! Judge Dredd: Dog's Life

Writer: Mike Carroll
Art: Nicolo Assirelli
Colours: John Charles
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, with the toxic Black Atlantic on one side and the irradiated wasteland the Cursed Earth to the west. 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!

Judge Dredd: Dog's Life

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...

Hawk the Slayer: The Last of Her Kind

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...

Portals & Black Goo: A Quorum of Fiends

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...

Fiends of the Western Front: Wilde West

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 been finding work to give her life meaning, she's discovered that her pal Cheerio is in fact alive...

The Out: Book Four

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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