Preview: 2000 AD Prog 2173

This weeks 2000 AD Prog features two finales. The current Dredd Story The Relic ends after just three parts, and there's also the end for the psychedelic series The Zaucer, which has had a pretty entertaining run over the previous 10 instalments. Elsewhere, Sinister Dexter moves onto its second part along with Skip Tracer, and Feral & Foe continues with part 12.

Prog 2173 goes on sale this Wednesday, 18th March.

• UK and DIGITAL: 18 March 2019 £2.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 18 April 2019 $7.99 (per pack)
• DIAMOND: JAN201939
• COVER: CLIFF ROBINSON (artist) DYLAN TEAGUE (colourist)

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, and has had to retrieve them by force...

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, he’s discovered that the Criminaut is Tutu from the future...

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. Now, Sinister is trying to put the frighteners on fairground owner Buddy Lister to make him sell up...

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, where it’s become home to every kind of wanted criminal. That’s where SKIP TRACER Nolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, who wields powerful psi-abilities. Now, a mysterious figure called Nimrod has come to The Cube...

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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