Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2418

by Benjamin Williams
2nd February, 2025
3 minutes

Get ready for an exhilarating ride with 2000 AD Prog 2418, featuring two new Thrills alongside the return of Hawk the Slayer, Fiends of the Western Front, and Portals & Black Goo.

First of the new Thrills sees Ken Niemand and Nick Percival present The Shift, a chilling tale of Judge Dredd encountering a juve myth that leads to a horrific parallel dimension. Next, De Campi and Ocana return for the final book of Full Tilt Boogie, where Tee and her friends gear up to confront the Luxine Empire and its Empress. 

You don't miss out on the latest adventures in the Galaxy's Greatest Comic!

  • UK and DIGITAL: 5 February £3.80
  • NORTH AMERICA: 2 April $25.99 (Prog Pack)
  • DIAMOND: DEC241817
  • COVER: NICK PERCIVAL

2000 AD Prog 2418 cover by Nick Percival

In Prog 2418

New! Judge Dredd: Shift

Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Nick Percival
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: Shift part 1

New! Full Tilt Boogie: Book Three

Writer: Alex de Campi
Art: Eduardo Ocana
Colours: Giulia Brusco
Letters: Simon Bowland

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 battled. Now, Tee and her allies must take on the Empress herself, who is once again going to war...

Full Tilt Boogie: Book Three part 1

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 part 6

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 part 6

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 part 6

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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