Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2171

2000 AD Prog returns to normal this week after it's bumper all-ages takeover this Wednesday just gone. Dredd kicks off a new story arc, with an alien coming to Mega-City One, discovering that MCO is it's usual accommodating, tolerant self in  The Relic. Skip Tracer returns, there's the final chapter for Proteus Vex, and the latest instalments for The Zaucer of Zilk and Feral & Foe!

• UK and DIGITAL: 4 March 2019 £2.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 4 April 2019 $7.99 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: JAN201939
• COVER: JIMMY BROXTON

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD: THE RELIC
by Kenneth Niemand (writer) Jake Lynch (artist) Jim Boswell (colourist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

Mega-City One, 2142 AD. Home to over 140 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. With unemployment rife and boredom universal, tensions run a constant knife-edge. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

PROTEUS VEX: ANOTHER DAWN
by Michael Carroll (writer) Henry Flint (artist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is now over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions of Obdurate citizens, caused by the Alliance teleporting a dying white dwarf star into their system. Now, Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX has caught up with the missing Chancellor Rho 7 Baryon, who he has learnt plans to destroy an innocent colony world...

SKIPER TRACER: NIMROAD
by James Peaty (writer) Paul Marshall (artist) Dylan Teague (colourist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

The Cube, the 27th century. This vast city floating in the depths of space was once a monitoring station, but has been refitted by the Earth-led Consociation as a solution to a universal housing problem. It’s now home to every kind of undesirable and wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, who, after a battlefield injury, was left with powerful psi-abilities...

THE ZAUCER OF ZILK: A ZAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
by Peter Hogan (writer) Brendan McCarthy (artist + colourist) Len O'Grady (colourist) Jim Campbell (letterer)

The realm of Zilk, on the fringes of the imagination. The Zaucer was the wizard to the royal court of Curtaindown, and was the most famous and powerful person in the kingdom. But then came Errol Raine, master of despair from the world of Dankendreer, who tried to take him down, and the Zaucer sacrificed his immortality to save his young ward Tutu. Now, a mysterious figure called the Criminaut has been targeting him...

FERAL & FOE
by Dan Abnett (writer) Richard Elson (artist + colourist) Joe Elson (colourist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

It is five years after the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord, whose army of creatures sought to eradicate humanity. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered across the lands, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and have been offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE...

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