If you’ve been waiting on the perfect jumping on point for 2000 AD, you’ll want to get yourself to your local newsagent on Wednesday with this week’s Prog 2200 offering up a selection of all-new stories (aside from the continuation of Dan Abnett’s Sinister Dexter). Check out a preview here…
Judge Dredd: Carry the Nine
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 — zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, Dredd and the city attempt to recover after the destruction wrought by the Four Horsemen…
Future Shocks: Omnidetectorists
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…
Hook-Jaw
NEW STORY! His name is legend, a myth that has passed into popular culture via stories, word of mouth, comics, merchandise, and more — that of the formidable Great White shark known as HOOK-JAW. A spear protruding from his lower jaw, few who encounter him live to tell the tale, so terrible is his hunger. Bodies rent asunder in his wake, the sea stained red with the blood of his victims, he’s a true terror of the deep…
Sinister Dexter: Ghostlands
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, a rogue A.I. is at large, and the duo have teamed up with Carrie Hosanna and Billi Octavo…
Skip Tracer: Hyperballad
The Cube, the 27th century. This vast 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 TRACERNolan Blake comes in, a former soldier turned tracker, who wields powerful psi-abilities. Now, following Nimrod’s attempt to destroy the Cube, it’s in orbit above Balbuena…
Stickleback: New Jerusalem
London, the end of the nineteenth century. STICKLEBACK is a master criminal, pulling the strings amidst the denizens of the capital’s underworld, and led a gang of freaks, oddballs and semi-supernatural entities that had the city under their thumb. Mystery has always surrounded his past, and his identity has now been revealed as none other than Sherlock Holmes himself. But London faces a dire threat from otherworldly creatures…
2000 AD Prog 2200 is released this Wednesday, September 23rd.
Via ComicBookNews
