On Sale Now! Judge Dredd Megazine 392
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THARG’S NERVE CENTRE IN THIS PROG JUDGE DREDD // THE SHROUD Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to over 72 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, 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! After crashing in the Siberian wastes, he’s been picked up by scavengers, who have sold him on to slavers... Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra ABC WARRIORS // FALLOUT Mars, the far future. War droids created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! ABC WARRIORS are resistant to Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical warfare. Charged Mighty are my scrotnig powers and Mighty is with bringing peace to the civil war-ravaged frontier colonies on the Red Planet, the my illustrious organ — I am Tharg, alien editor! Mek-nificent Seven have recently recruited the mechanic Tubal Caine, who was once Another Thrill-packed issue to galvanise those Happy Shrapnel. Now, in the city of Mekana, divisions are appearing within the team... excitement sensors and get your optical circuits ABC Warriors created by Pat Mills, Kevin O’Neill, Mick McMahon & Brendan McCarthy popping, Terrans — this week we start the third arc of Dredd’s Siberian escapades with writer Michael Carroll BRASS SUN // ENGINE SUMMER joined by art-bot Paul Davidson on The Shroud as the The Orrery is a clockwork solar system, a clutch of planets orbiting a vast BRASS lawman finds himself in the hands of slavers and very SUN, but the outer worlds are freezing as the sun dies. Young Wren must find the far from Mega-City One indeed. Can he escape this elements of the key that will restart the sun, and has embarked on an epic quest with frozen hell? Keep watching the progs, my Squaxx! conductor novice Septimus. An aspect of the Blind Watchmaker, the Orrery’s creator, A reminder that Judge Dredd Megazine 392 it out was implanted in Wren’s head, and there are factions that will kill to get it... now, if you haven’t yet picked it up, and features no Brass Sun created by Ian Edginton & INJ Culbard less than three zarjaz new stories — ape Judge Harry Heston is back in Krong Island by Arthur Wyatt and SAVAGE // THE THOUSAND YEAR STARE Jake Lynch; Cursed Earth Koburn returns courtesy of In 1999, Britain was invaded by the Volgans, and lorry driver BILL SAVAGE’s family Rory McConville and Carlos Ezquerra in The Law of the were killed. He led the resistance to victory in 2010, when the enemy surrendered. Now, Cursed Earth; and the final DREDD comic-book sequel in 2015, Savage has been stationed in Volgan-occupied Berlin under the guise of bar commences, introducing the Dark Judges to the movie owner Herr Wilder, but his hatred of Volgans caused him to go on killing sprees. Now universe, in The Dead World by Wyatt, Alex De Campi he has partnered with Volgan cop Nika Volodina to investigate Volgan experiments... and Henry Flint. Add to that the latest Lawless and Bill Savage created by Pat Mills & Jesus Blasco Devlin Waugh episodes and you have a ghafflebette line-up. If that wasn’t incentive enough to rush off BAD COMPANY // TERRORISTS and subscribe via shop.2000AD.com, Meg subbers It has been a decade since man fought the Krool on the planet Ararat. Danny Franks was will also now receive a print of the cover artwork just a raw recruit until he was drafted into the guerrilla unit known as BAD COMPANY. absolutely free! Am I good to you Earthlets or what? Kano, Fly-Trap, Mad Tommy and Thrax were living in a veterans’ compound, dosed in SPLUNDIG psyche-chem to keep the memories at bay, when they realised the truth about the VUR THRIGG! war had been hidden from them. They busted out, and are now enemies of the state... Bad Company created by Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins & Jim McCarthy ON SALE NOW! JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 392 COVER ART Chris Weston 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 © 2018 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. Any resemblance to people living or dead, or to any companies or institutions (except for satirical purposes) is unintended and purely coincidental. Printed in Great Britain by PCP. Sample Distribution/Tradefile Enquiries: Seymour, 2 East Poultry Avenue, London EC1A 9PT. Tel: 020-7429-4000. ISSN 0262 284X. TMO assisted by Cyber-Matt. Design by SAM 2.0, OZ-BRN-1 and MA2. Damage Report: Day one of Mek-Quake’s exercise and well- being regime, and surprisingly inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s website — who knew the Terra-Mek was such a fan of Goop. FEATURING JUDGE DREDD, LAWLESS, DEVLIN com? Maybe he found it a good source for torture ideas — each droid must start the day with a hot-lube enema to clear out WAUGH, CURSED EARTH KOBURN AND MORE ‘impurities’. A furious Burt says he’s not taking this lying down... WWW.2000AD.COM 128 PAGES // STILL ONLY £5.99 FOR SUBS ENQUIRIES, BACK ISSUES AND MERCHANDISE CALL 01865 797022 OR VISIT SHOP.2000AD.COM JUDGE JOSEPH DREDD. YOU HAVE CAUSED YOU HAVE WHO ME SO MUCH BEEN A WORTHY THE HELL ARE TROUBLE OVER OPPONENT, BUT WAS YOU? THE YEARS. THE OUTCOME OF OUR CONFLICT EVER TRULY IN DOUBT? SCRIPT MICHAEL CARROLL ART PAUL DAVIDSON COLOURS CHRIS BLYTHE LETTERS ANNIE THE SHROUD PART 1 PARKHOUSE AMUSING! YOU ARE ORDER, WHO AND \ AM CHAOS... AND AM \ ? \ AM YOU ARE BUT IT IS A UNIVERSAL MAUL. A SPECK TRUTH THAT CHAOS ON _ ALWAYS PREVAILS OVER ORDER. ALWAYS. YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO GIVE ME A FEW HINTS. Sample file AS FOR YOU, PATHAK... THE AMERICANS AND EAST-MEG ARE SEARCHING FOR DREDD AND YOU PARADED HIM THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE REGION LIKE SOME KIND OF DAMN TROPHY! \ DO NOT TOLERATE FOOLS. WE’RE MOVING OUT. WORD WILL ALREADY HAVE SPREAD. CONTACT KARAG. WE’RE TAKING DREDD WITH US TO THE SHROUD... ‘...AND REPAIR HIS GET \ HEARD ARM SO THAT HE MOVIN’! OF THIS PLACE. CAN WORK!’ THEY SAY ONCE YOU GO UNDER THE SHROUD, NEED YOU NEVER COME A HAND OUT AGAIN. NOT GETTING DOWN, ALIVE. JUDGE? \’LL MANAGE. Sample file NAME’S NUALA RED-CARDED QUINK-MAHER. \ WAS THE OTHERS. KEPT ON A PILGRIMAGE, ME ALIVE BECAUSE EURO-CIT TO THEY SAID \ LOOKED SINO. APPETISING. FOLLOWING THE PATH OF THE 2094 EMERALD ISLE CAMOGIE WORLD-CUP SQUAD, OBVIOUSLY. DROKKERS AMBUSHED US OUTSIDE ANKARA. JUDGE DREDD! \ KNEW MAUL’S RECRUITMENT AGENTS LUKA WERE GOOD, BUT TO CATCH WE’VE MET SHIROKOV. YOU... \’M EVEN MORE BEFORE, BUT \’M MEGA-CITY SOV IMPRESSED. SURE YOU DON’T INTERNMENT CAMP, REMEMBER. FOUR YEARS IT WAS _ AGO.* *THARGNOTE: SEE ‘WOLVES’, PROGS 1820-1822. DIDN’T WANT TO BE DEPORTED SO YOU TOOK ‘...THIS, TOO, WILL A WOMAN HOSTAGE. SHOT NOT BREAK ME.’ AND KILLED A CIT WHO WAS TRYING TO \ SURVIVED HELP HER. BULGARIN’S REGIME BEFORE THE WAR. \ SURVIVED TWENTY YEARS \ SEEM IN MEGA-CITY ONE. TO REMEMBER AND \ SURVIVED PUTTING THREE S.E. YOU... ROUNDS THROUGH YOU. DIDN’T EXPECT YOU TO LIVE. Sample file THIS IS YOUR HOMELAND, SHIROKOV. HOW DID THEY CAPTURE YOU? \ WENT TO MEGA-CITY ONE BECAUSE \ WAS NO LONGER WELCOME IN EAST-MEG TWO. ‘\ OWED SOME PEOPLE A LOT OF MONEY. POWERFUL PEOPLE. ‘AND POWERFUL PEOPLE ARE QUICK TO ANGER AND SLOW TO FORGET. ‘THE EXTRADITION DELIVERED ME INTO THEIR HANDS. THEY SENT ME HERE FOR PUNISHMENT.’ BUT IF YOU HELP \ OWE ME GET OUT OF HERE, YOU FOR THAT, PERHAPS \ WON’T HAVE \’VE DREDD. MY PEOPLE BUTCHER GOT MY OWN YOU FOR THE PLANS. WOLVES. NOT Sample INTERESTED. file SHUT UP, ALLA YOU! NOTHIN’ BUT ICE AND MOUNTAINS OVERHEAD... FOR A HUNDRED THAT AIN’T SKY. ‘S A KAY IN EVERY HOLOGRAM. LOOKS LIKE DIRECTION. SNOW FROM ABOVE, KEEPS THIS PLACE HIDDEN. YOU FISH FOR SQUIDIPEDES. THEY’RE WORTH ALMOST NOTHIN’ DEAD _ AN’ IT BLOCKS ALL RADIO SIGNALS. SO NO ONE’S GONNA FIND YOU, IF THERE’S ANYONE EVEN LOOKIN’. STRIP ‘THEY NEED TO THEM. BUT LEAVE UNDERSTAND THAT _ GOTTA STILL DREDD WITH HIS EVEN JUDGE DREDD BE WRIGGLIN’ WHEN HELMET. CAN BE TAMED.’ THE BUYER OPENS WE THE TANKS. WANT TO BE SURE THE OTHERS KNOW WHO THEIR \ SEE ONE. NEW BUNKMATE FIFTEEN METRES IS... DOWN. CIRCLING... STARTING TO RISE... GET READY. Sample file NO _ PLEASE! \ DON’T NEW FISH THIS IS A BAD HAS TO BE CALL, REF! WANNA DO THIS! THE BAIT, NUALA. THAT’S THE RULE. MORE YOU STRUGGLE, MORE YOU HEAT UP. THEY LIKE THAT. OH GRUD... HERE IT COMES... OH SWEET MERCIFUL JOVIS! Sample file NEXT PROG ON THE HOOK! STEELHORN! YOU’VE GOT TO STOP THIS MADNESS! OR \ WILL STOP YOU! Sample file PART FIVE // SCRIPT // // ART // // LETTERS // PAT MILLS CLINT LANGLEY ANNIE PARKHOUSE REDWOLVES! THEY EAT THROUGH METAL _ WE’RE ON THIS PLANET TO INCREASE THE PEACE, STEELHORN, NOT TO CAUSE DEATH AND Sample fileDESTRUCTION..