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Tharg's Nerve Centre THARG’S NERVE CENTRE IN THIS PROG JUDGE DREDD // WAR BUDS Mega-City One, 2139 AD. Home to over 72 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Unemployment is rife, poverty widespread, and crime is rampant. Tensions rest on a constant knife-edge, and only the zero-tolerance Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra THE ALIENIST // INHUMAN NATURES England, 1908. Madelyn Vespertine, an Edwardian woman of unknown age and origin, BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! investigates strange events of an occult nature, accompanied by Professor Sebastian Call me Tharg The Mighty, all-powerful alien Wetherall. Little do those that meet the pair know that the Professor is actually an actor editor of this explosive SF anthology! called Reginald Briggs, a stooge covering for the fact that Madelyn is not human. Now, Two new Thrills this prog, Terrans: Gordon Rennie, she has teamed up with the sinister Professor Praetorius to look into a time-breach... Lawrence Rennie and Karl Richardson team up for an The Alienist created by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby & Eoin Coveney infernal 3riller in the shape of Mechastopheles, while John Wagner and Dan Cornwell collaborate on the GREYSUIT // FOUL PLAY Judge Dredd story War Buds, which deals with the London, 2014. John Blake is a GREYSUIT, a Delta-Class assassin working for a branch fallout — emotional or otherwise — from the nuking of of British Intelligence. Given superhuman powers through extreme mental conditioning, East-Meg One at the end of the Apocalypse War. You Greysuits are feared for their ruthlessness. But Blake’s programming has broken down, may recognise the Cornwell droid as the pencil-bot on and his memories have returned. Now, he’s getting payback on his handlers, and the Rok of the Reds, the football/sci-fi mini-series that next one on his list is Doctor Green, responsible for his terrifying ‘primals’... was scripted by Wagner and Alan Grant, and published Greysuit created by Pat Mills & John Higgins by BHP Comics, and here he makes his debut for the Galaxy’s Greatest under my emerald eye! HOPE // ...FOR THE FUTURE Don’t forget, my Squaxx, that the first volume in An alternate 1940s Hollywood. WWII is over, victory having been secured by occult the utterly scrotnig Hachette Partworks 2000 AD means. Now, magic is a part of everyday life, its practitioners commonplace. Mallory Ultimate Collection is out 23 August, for a mere £1.99 HOPE is one such skilled operative, though calling on the dark arts takes its toll on the — yes, I know! You can own The Horned God for just a user. He’s also a private investigator, hired for all manner of down n’ dirty jobs, and now couple of groats! — and if you catch this in time pop his services are required to find a missing boy, the child star Buster Ritz!... along to London’s Forbidden Planet on the 23rd where Hope created by Guy Adams & Jimmy Broxton spine artist Boo Cook will be signing copies between 6 and 7pm, and the first lucky hundred purchasers of THARG’S 3RILLERS // MECHASTOPHELES issue one will be able to pick up a print of the zarjaz Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged spine art. In the meantime, humes, head over to Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! It is a year after the Fall, 2000ADcollection.com for all the subs details! when the demons rose and society collapsed. Now, the human survivors that are SPLUNDIG scratching out an existence amongst the ruins struggle to avoid the creatures that VUR THRIGG! roam this blighted world as they search for a safe haven that they can call home... Mechastopheles created by Gordon Rennie, Lawrence Rennie & Karl Richardson THRILLS OF THE FUTURE COVER ART Cliff Robinson COVER COLOURS Dylan Teague Advertising, Marketing and PR Enquiries: 01865-792201 ([email protected]). 2000 AD is published every Wednesday by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES, Earth. All contents © 2017 Rebellion A/S, unless specifically stated otherwise. 2000 AD® is a registered trademark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in any form or by any means without prior permission of Rebellion is strictly forbidden. 2000 AD must not be sold for more than the selling price shown on the cover. 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WE WERE HARDLY PART CLOSE. WAR BUDS ONE THE RESTRAINT SUIT PREVENTS HIM HARMING HIMSELF _ OR OTHERS. HE’S CAPABLE SampleOF BOTH. file SCRIPT JOHN WAGNER ART DAN CORNWELL COLOURS ABIGAIL BULMER LETTERS ANNIE PARKHOUSE DO YOU \’M THINK \ DON’T SORRY! \’VE REGRET IT? EVERY TOLD YOU A MOMENT OF MY THOUSAND DAMN LIFE! TIMES _ OH GRUD, IF ONLY \ COULD! IF ONLY \ COULD! HE WANTS TO DIE _ TO ATONE FOR WHAT HE’S DONE, OR IMAGINES HE HAS. THIS IS A SAD CONDITION TO FIND YOU IN, D-DREDD...? COSTA. HELLO, COSTA. UHHHH...? WE... WE DID WE DID IT’S THE A TERRIBLE THING, WHAT WE BABIES, DREDD. DREDD. HAD TO. THEY’RE THE WORST. MILLIONS AND \ WAS MILLIONS OF A DOCTOR! A BABIES. DOCTOR! DO NO HARM! THAT’S WHAT \’VE WE LIVE BY! DO _ COUNTED NO _ HARM! OH, THEM. \ COUNT \ DID HARM ALL THEM EVERY RIGHT! DAY, EVERY NIGHT. CAN YOU HEAR THEM? Sample fileSCREAMING? CRYING? BECAUSE OF WHAT WE DID. YOU AND ME. \ TELL THEM \’M SORRY! \ TELL THEM ALL THE TIME! THEY WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE! 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