Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2447 - Bumper 48-Page Issue!

2000 AD Prog 2447 lands this week, and it's a bumper 48-page beast packed with ghafflebette goodness! As the third oversized issue of 2025, Prog 2447 cranks up the thrill-power with extra stories, bonus content, and a lineup that's guaranteed to melt your thrill-circuits.

Joining the latest instalments of Scarlet Traces and The Ravilious Pact, this issue brings the beginning of a new Nu Earth War Tale, The Survivors, by Karl Stock and Karl Richardson. You'll also find a complete Future Shock from the Peaty and Walters droids. Additionally, there's an explosive final instalment of Azimuth: Abandoned by God, a ten-page one-off Herne and Shuck flashback story, and Wessel and Roche's meks collaborate on this issue's Dredd thriller, Free Cherese, all ahead of the characters' return this Christmas for their second full-length adventure.

Last week's assertion that Dredd story Tunnels would return was unfortunately premature, but fear not - it will be coming soon!

• UK and DIGITAL: 27 August £4.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 1 October $26.99 (Prog Pack)
• DIAMOND: JUN251428
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON WITH DYLAN TEAGUE

In Prog 2447

Judge Dredd: Free Cherese

Writer: Geoffrey D.Wessel
Art: Nick Roche
Colours: Jack Davies
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 to the east, and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. 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!

Azimuth: Abandoned by God

Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Tazio Bettin
Colours: Matt Soffe
Letters: Jim Campbell

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. A stranger has ridden into town — none other than Ramone Dexter — and revealed that Azimuth is in fact Downlode recrafted by a rogue Artificial Intelligence...

Future Shocks: Let There Be Light

Writer: James Peaty
Art: Mike Walters
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…

The Ravilious Pact

Writer: T.C.Eglington
Art: Steven Austin
Colours: John Charles
Letters: Simon Bowland

London, 2025. Jason Ravilious is an enforcer for the notorious Boucher mob, one of the capital's more feared underworld organisations. But they are no ordinary gangland outfit — they have connections with demonic entities that have helped them build their criminal empire. Jason was loyal to the Boucher patriarch Archie, but he's now died and power has transferred to his unstable son Todd...

Herne & Shuck: Be Here Now

Writer: David Barnett
Art: Lee Milmore
Colours: Gary Caldwell
Letters: Simon Bowland

The UK. Herne is a troubleshooter and hired help for many different magical factions in the country. Accompanied by Shuck, a demon in dog form, he travels the country picking up work where he can, whether it be an exorcism or a rescue. Recently, he was tasked with saving a young girl called Carys from ritual sacrifice. Now, we flashback to the nineties, and one of young Herne's first experiences with the paranormal...

Scarlet Traces: Empire of Blood

Writer: Ian Edginton
Art: D'Israeli
Letters: Annie Parkhouse

England, the late nineteenth century. Earth has come under attack by Martian war machines, devastating huge swathes of the country with their heat rays and harvesting enormous numbers of people. Finally struck down by the planet's viruses, the Martians assault collapses. Now, humanity is picking up the pieces and coming to terms with the aftermath, but there appears to be vestiges of the aliens left...

Nu Earth War Tales: The Survivors

Writer: Karl Stock
Art: Karl Richardson
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. As he, together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, search for the traitor that sold them out, stories swirl around the characters involved in this conflict...

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