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, and crime is rampant. Only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, former members of the Apocalypse Squad are fleeing the city, having freed a friend...

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 I am The Mighty Tharg, galactic godhead at the Wetherall. Little do those that meet the pair know that the Professor is actually an actor helm of this award-winning SF anthology! called Reginald Briggs, a stooge covering for the fact that Madelyn is not human. Now, the We’re barrelling towards the explosive finales of all sinister Professor Praetorius is aiming to stop a dimensional infection from spreading...

the current Thrills next prog to make way for a brand- The Alienist created by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby & Eoin Coveney new line-up to commence in the truly scrotnig Prog 2050. Last week I spoke of the Rogue Trooper story GREYSUIT // FOUL PLAY by James Robinson and Leonardo Manco that you’ll London, 2014. John Blake is a GREYSUIT, a Delta-Class assassin working for a branch of find within its pages, but what else will be joining it? British Intelligence. Given superhuman powers through mental conditioning, Greysuits Well, steel your Thrill-receptors for the return of Sláine are feared for their ruthlessness. But Blake’s programming has broken down, and his in the fourth and final Brutania Chronicle, Archon, by memories have returned. Now, he’s getting payback on his handlers, including Dunstan Pat Mills and Simon Davis. With the Celtic warrior and Wood, who Blake has ordered to shoot himself, whilst in the guise of a superior... Sinead facing down the Archon’s stone army, not only Greysuit created by Pat Mills & John Higgins must they battle to escape the isle of Monadh but Sláine himself will also be rocked by revelations about FUTURE SHOCKS // TERMINAL his true father. Just who was his mother Macha having Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting secret assignations with? Find out in a few weeks’ time, to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and Terrans! around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking Joining it in Prog 2050 will be a new series of Indigo ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the Prime, those extra-dimensional troubleshooters, from galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected… writers John Smith and Kek-W and artist Lee Carter. Terminal created by Rory McConville & Tilen Javornik Picking up where Perfect Day left off in 2014, A Dying Art sees IP’s Imagineers comatosed from psychic HOPE // ...FOR THE FUTURE shock. In a bid to save their minds, agents Crippen, An alternate 1940s Hollywood. WWII is over, victory having been secured by occult Unthur and Burroughs are going to have to enter the means. Now, magic is a part of everyday life, its practitioners commonplace. Mallory haunted houses that are their heads... Don’t miss it! HOPE is one such skilled operative, though calling on the dark arts takes its toll on the SPLUNDIG user. He’s also a private investigator, hired for all manner of down n’ dirty jobs, and now, VUR THRIGG! tasked with finding missing child star Buster Ritz!, he’s uncovered the kid’s murderer... Hope created by Guy Adams & Jimmy Broxton THRILLS OF THE FUTURE

COVER ART Luke Preece

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PART WAR BUDS FOUR

WE’RE THROUGH! GO, KWANO!

WE’RE FLYIN’, MAN!

SCRIPT JOHN WAGNER NEXT STOP ART DAN TC! CORNWELL COLOURS ABIGAIL BULMER LETTERS ANNIE PARKHOUSE

KWAN WAS BADLY INJURED BY A TOTAL WAR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE, 2119. REQUIRED EXTENSIVE BIONICS. BEEN WORKING AS AN AUXILIARY DRIVER SINCE THEN. IT’S HIS NAME ON SampleTHE HUVVALUVVA RENTAL. file WHAT ABOUT COSTA?

NO CONFIRMATION OF HIS PRESENCE ABOARD. THE APOCALYPSE SQUAD, THERE WAS HERSHEY TOO, AND BUT THEY’D HUNG TOUGH, STAYED WITH FOR THE OTHERS... IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. ANDERSON _ THEY HAD BEEN THE JOB. NEITHER OF THEM WOULD GET WOULD BE THE FINAL THERE, ON THAT FATEFUL MISSION. MIXED UP IN LAWBREAKING LIKE THIS. ACT OF THE TRAGEDY.

PERPS PASSED THROUGH BEFORE THEY COULD BE HALTED. WALL BATTERY IS TARGETING.

THINK THE WALL HOVER MOTOR’S GUN’S GOT A FOULED UP BEAD! STAY IN ANYWAY! TRAFFIC! KEEP Sample LOW! file FIRST TIME \’VE SEEN YOU SMILE SINCE YOU GOT BLEW UP, JUST KWANO! LIKE OLD TIMES!

GO THE APOCALYPSE SQUAD!

Sample file TELL THE WALL BATTERY TO STANDING HOLD FIRE! ORDERS STIPULATE WE STOP ALL FUGITIVES, DREDD _

\ SAID HOLD FIRE! THAT’S MY ORDER!

WHATEVER THEIR CRIMES, THEY’D BEEN WITH HIM WHEN IT MATTERED.

DREDD _ !

THEY’VE HAD TO BEAR THE BURDEN OF THAT ACT EVER SINCE. THE ANNIHILATION OF EAST-MEG ONE HAD LEFT NONE OF THEM UNTOUCHED.

SO THEY DESERVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION, WHATEVER LENIENCY HE CAN SHOW THEM.

WHAT’S THEIR TC? MEDICAL IN THEIR POSITION INTENTION? SURELY TREATMENT? IT _ AND HE HAD COSTA MUST BE WAS ALL THAT BEEN _ HADN’T HE WHO IS ABOARD... MADE SENSE. HIMSELF TAKEN THIS? SIMILAR ACTION? IT’S DREDD, CHIEF JUDGE.

THE EVIL FORCES. THEY’VE TAKEN OVER JUSTICE Sample file DEPARTMENT _ KEEPING US PRISONER HERE! THEY’RE GOING TO DREDD? KILL US, YOU NEVER HEARD OF KNOW? HIM! WHO ARE YOU? \ THEY SENT YOU, KNOW. DIDN’T THEY? DAMN RIGHT! WHERE ARE THERE’S TRAITORS ALL! WE GOING? A BAND OF WE’LL SETTLE THEIR CANNIBALS HASH! THEY’LL KNOW OPERATING OUT HILDA MARGARET WHO ARE NEAR WARHEAD McGRUDER IS YOU? THE GULCH. BACK! NAME’S DREDD, MA’AM. YOU THINK WE DEAL WITH COMMON CANNIBALS? WE’RE CHIEF JUDGE _ THEY DON’T COME \ KNOW _ NO CHIEFER! BUT THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE \ COULD TRUST.

ITEM SEVEN HER MIND IS GONE. \ ON THE AGENDA _ SEE NO GOOD REASON TO PROLONG HER FORMER CHIEF JUDGE TORMENT. SHE SHOULD BE GRANTED McGRUDER. A DIGNIFIED EXIT.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOUR OF LETHAL INJECTION?

Sample file YOU DID GOOD, THEY WERE SONNY. WHAT’D _ KOFF! _ GOING YES. _ KOFF! _ WHAT’D YOU TO... GOING TO SAY YOUR NAME DREDD, KILL US, YOU WAS? MA’AM. KNOW...? AND YOU DESERVED BETTER.

COMMENDABLE, THAT INSTINCT TO HELP AN OLD WAR BUD. WORTH TRYING, EVEN. EXPERTS AREN’T ALWAYS RIGHT.

TAKING COSTA HE CAN OVERLOOK. BUT THEY HAVE BROKEN OTHER LAWS. BATTERY AND IMPERSONATION ARE SERIOUS CRIMES. THOSE HE CANNOT IGNORE.

LET’S MAKE THIS EASY ON EVERYBODY. CALL THE HIRE COMPANY _ HUVVALUVVA _ ORDER A RECALL!

MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE ORDERED IT HIMSELF, NOT JUST SWALLOWED THE LINE. H-WAGON! WE HAVE THEM NO MAYBE. SHOULD. IF ON VISUAL. ABOUT ANYONE DESERVED A SIXTY KAYS DUE BREAK, IT WAS COSTA. SOUTH WEST OF JUNCTION 7, HEADING OVERLAND.

\ THINK WE’RE IN THE CLEAR! KEEP HER MOVIN’, Sample KWANO! file

YOU’RE JUST KIDDIN’ YOURSELVES. YOU WERE JUDGES _ YOU SHOULD KNOW THEY’RE NOT GOING TO LET US RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET.

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