Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2431
This week in 2000 AD Prog 2431, you can enjoy two complete tales, with Judge Dredd and a Future Shocks. There are also exciting new instalments of Ghosted, Rogue Trooper, and Silver. No new story arc this week, but hopefully you're prepared for next week as a new arc of Ian Edginton and D'Israeli's Martian invasion epic, Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood. In fact, those of you who picked up the 2000 AD Free Comic Book Day issue on the weekend have already had a sneak peek!
- UK and DIGITAL: 7 May £3.80
- NORTH AMERICA: 2 July $24.99 (Prog Pack)
- DIAMOND: MAR251585
- COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON WITH DYLAN TEAGUE
In Prog 2431
Judge Dredd: No Place Like Home
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Rob Richardson
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 irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. 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!
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...
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…
Future Shocks: The Takeover
Writer: James Peaty
Art: Cam Smith
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy's dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…
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...
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