Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2172

It's that time of the week where we bring you the weekly Prog Preview. This week sees the return of Sinister Dexter, courtesy of Dan Abnett and Steve Yeowell, with the duo still reeling from the fallout of trying to protect Artificial General Intelligence Lilith from unknown enemies, in Progs 2147-2149.

Elsewhere, there's an angry alien on the loose in Judge Dredd: The Relic, Nolan Blake discovers there's a new threat in town in Skip Tracer: Nimrod, Wrath and Bode join a warband to take on Haggart Morn, the Butcher of Kurnoe, in Feral & Foe, and the Zaucer of Zilk is staggered to learn the true identity of the Criminaut in A Zaucerful of Zecrets.

• UK and DIGITAL: 11 March 2019 £2.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 11 April 2019 $7.99 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: JAN201939
• COVER: JAKE LYNCH

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. 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 the alien Qgggl has come to the metropolis to reclaim his grandfather’s remains, but has been stonewalled...

SINISTER DEXTER: THE FRIGHTENERS
by Dan Abnett (writer) Steve Yeowell (artist) John Charles (colourist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

Gun-sharks Finnigan SINISTER and Ramone DEXTER are the best hitmen money can buy in the future city of Downlode. Having whacked Holy Moses Tanenbaum, a ganglord from an alternate dimension whose presence threatened the fabric of reality, they’ve found killing him reset the continuum, meaning no one knows who they are. Having recently tried to protect an A.G.I. from unknown enemies, Dexter has been injured...

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...

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

The Cube, the 27th century. This vast deep-space city 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 wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACERNolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, with powerful psi-abilities. Now, he’s been reunited with his late brother Kennan’s lover Specialist Pamela Hastings...

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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