Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2430
2000 AD Prog 2430 this week continues events from last week, delivering another stunning issue with creators at the very top of their game. The difference between this week and last? There are two finales to look forward to, as Chimpsky's Law and the current Dredd storyline, Blitzers, reach their explosive finales with deadly results.
There is also more Rogue Trooper, Ghosted, and Silver to round off another pulsating prog before things get switched up next week with two new stories to complement these ongoing thrillers.
- UK and DIGITAL: 30 April £3.80
- NORTH AMERICA: 4 June $36.00 (Prog Pack)
- DIAMOND: FEB251945
- COVER: SIMON DAVIS
In Prog 2430
Judge Dredd: Blitzers
Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Dan Cornwell
Colours: Dylan Teague
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. Tensions are on a knife-edge, 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, former Mob-blitzers are trying to escape to a new life before they explode...
Chimpsky's Law: The Truth Conundrum
Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: PJ Holden
Colours: Jack Davies
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape living in Ludi Wittgenstein block, and he sees it as his mission to protect his fellow residents from the various threats and problems that can befall a citizen of the Big Meg. He does all this secretly, allowing others to take the credit — but now he's encountered a rogue droid that's perfecting a truth gas that plans to unleash it on the city...
Silver: Perfidious
Writer: Mike Carroll
Art: Joe Currie
Letters: Simon Bowland
Earth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the resting place of a five hundred-year-old vampire, who may just help them against the alien Sepsis, who invaded the planet a few decades earlier. The vamp, called Baroness DeSilva, has proved powerful in battling the extra-terrestrials, and now, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, has been given a new mission to undertake...
Ghosted: Book One
Writer: Guy Adams
Art: Megan Huang
Letters: Simon Bowland
Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the far future. One of the fastest-growing mega-cities in the world, the metropolis is now a walled city-world, so vast and divorced from the rest of the planet that it's virtually its own realm. Rich and diverse, it prides itself on being the perfect place to live — but for well-to-do citizen Benu something strange is going on in her head…
Rogue Trooper: Tides of War
Writer: Andi Ewington
Art: Paul Marshall
Colours: Pippa Bowland
Letters: Jim Campbell
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, immune to the pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. He and his biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman have gone AWOL, hunting for the Traitor General that sold them out. Now, he's joined a patrol-boat crew...
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