The Galaxy’s Greatest Content: 2000 AD Prog #1653 Featurette
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As part of The Galaxy’s Greatest Content I take a look at the current week’s Prog, and do a sort of featurette about the week’s release, with a short description of the strips, and a bit of preview artwork. As I am in North America, I am not able to go to the store and just pick up this week’s issue, as the North American releases always lag a few weeks behind on the UK releases. So these will usually appear a little later in the week!
This week in 2000 AD:
- 2000 AD prog #1653 was released in shops across the UK this Wednesday, and should be available to buy from Clickwheel… sometime… soon?!
- 2000 AD prog #1652 was released in shops across the UK last Wednesday, and is available to buy in PDF format from Clickwheel right now!
- No progs out in North America this week, but check Clickwheel for the latest progs uploaded!
Notes: All of last week’s Thrills continue, and they just keep getting better!
This prog’s cover is by Dave Taylor, and goes along with this progs’s Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty strip.
In This Prog:
Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty, Part 4
Script Droid: John Wagner
Art Droid: Colin MacNeil
Colours: Chris Blyth
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
Mega-City One, 2131 AD. This vast urban nightmare is situated along the eastern coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth to the west and the polluted Black Atlantic to the east. Home to 400 million citizens, crammed into gigantic citi-blocks, overcrowding is rife, unemployment endemic and boredom universal. Tensions run a constant knife-edge, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges can prevent total anarchy. Empowered to dispense instant justice, these future lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD – he is the Law!
Recently, Dan Francisco has deposed Hershey as Chief Judge and established a scheme whereby four townships will be built in the Cursed Earth for the mutant population. Dredd has been stationed out there to oversee the project…
This week: Dredd discovers some serious issues with the security standards at a Cursed Earth detention center.
Strontium Dog: The Mork Whisperer, Part 3
Script Droid: John Wagner
Art Droid: Carlos & Hector Ezquerra
Letters: Ellie De Ville
Created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These ‘mutants’ became a victimized underclass, forced into ghettos by the ‘norms’ and the only job open to them was bounty hunting. One such Search Search/Destroy agent, or STRONTIUM DOG, is Johnny Alpha, whose eyes emit piercing alpha rays…
Recently, Johnny Alpha has been hired to find a missing wife…
This week: Johnny travels back in time in order to stop a crime before it happens!
Nikolai Dante: Lulu’s War, Part 3
Script Droid: Robbie Morrison
Art Droid: Paul Marshall
Colours: Gary Caldwell
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Created by Robbie Morrison & Simon Fraser
Year of the Tsar 2676 AD, and the bastard son of the Romanovs Nikolai Dante has bonded with a cyborganic Weapons Crest, an alien combat computer, which allows him to extrude lethal bio-blades. Dante is leading a rebellion against the tyrannical Vladimir the Conqueror, with the remaining members of the Romanov family allied to his cause…
Now, Imperial Nightstalkers have been tasked with destroying Lulu Romanov…
This week: Vampire pirates, explosions, blood, gore, and a battle beyond the death?!
Kingdom: Call of the Wild, Part 4
Script Droid: Dan Abnett
Art Droid: Richard Elson
Letters: Simon Bowland
Created by Dan Abnett & Richard Elson
Earth, the far future. Mankind has been all bu destroyed, those still surviving forced into hiding by Them – insectile creatures that have taken over the word. Charge with protecting humanity are genetically engineered dog soldiers like Gene the Hackman – savage warriors that patrol the wilderness, directed by Urgings from their Masters. Gene led his pack in ‘Anarchticy’, the one place that Them has not yet encroached upon, but his comrades were decimated when the monsters built a land bridge and invaded. With a pack to lead, Gene went wandering and came upon the promised land, a farming community that had managed to fence themselves off from Then – but he discovered that they were infected with tick-things, the latest evolution of the creatures. Saving a young girl, Leezee Sower, he continued to seek a home……
Recently, Gene and Leezee arrived in the the land of Auxtralia, and have hooked up with the Wild Bunch…
This week: Gene meets the leader of the Wild Bunch, and gets to meet… their pet…
Shakara: Destroyer, Part 4
Script Droid: Robbie Morrison
Art Droid: Henry Flint
Letters: Ellie De Ville
Created by Robbie Morrison & Henry Flint
The Galaxy is in turmoil. Once a place of peace and order, now a time of terror has descended upon it, with species waging war upon one another unchecked by any authority. Planets, civilisations, even star systems face total annihilation or enslavement. But a vengeful figure has emerged from the chaos, striking at targets with a ruthless determination. The alien being calls itself SHAKARA and is seemingly bent on wreaking revenge on those responsible for the destruction of its people. The shakara were once a warrior-race, brutally subduing any that dared transgress their laws, bringing justice and stability to the galaxy, but they were wiped out by an unholy alliance of criminal organizations. Their consciousness lives of, however, deep in the Time of the Shakara, from where they direct their relentless avenger….
But Now, there are those who plan to stop Shakara’s murderous rampage once and for all…
This week: Eva Procopio has invaded the tomb of the Shakara, and she cannot be allowed to live! Can Shakara resist the voices of the dead, urging him ever onward?
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