2000AD Prog 2448 is on sale this week in all good Local Comic Shops, TG Jones, newsagents that still exist, and select supermarkets.

There’s four Thrills waiting for you in this week’s issue behind a dramatic cover by Karl Richardson. With the delayed “Tunnels” set to return next week, in its place enjoy a complete “Judge Dredd” story from Ken Niemand and Cam Smith, featuring the intriguing title “The Wild Man of Brian Eno”.

The penultimate parts of ritualistic magic gangster series “The Ravilious Pact” and the current “Scarlet Traces” are also on offer, while “Nu Earth War Tales” wraps up its latest story.

Because: guess what? A new jumping-on Prog is on the way! 2000AD 2450 arrives on the 17th September, featuring a new Rob Williams and Henry Flint “Judge Dredd” story, the return of “Brass Sun” and “Void Runners”, the start of “Ghost Patrol”, a major new Rogue Trooper storyline (as we reported last week), and a crossover Judge Anderson story that will start in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic and end in Judge Dredd Megazine on the same day!

2000AD 2448
UK and DIGITAL: 3rd September August £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 29th October $28.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: JUL250841
COVER: Karl Richardson

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD // THE WILD MAN OF BRIAN ENO by Ken Niemand (Writer) Cam Smith (Artist) Emilio Lecce (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Home to over 250 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the toxic Black Atlantic to the east, and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. Tensions are on a knife-edge, crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

THE RAVILIOUS PACT by T.C.Eglington (Writer) Steven Austin (Artist) John Charles (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

London, 2025. Jason Ravilious is an enforcer for the notorious Boucher mob, one of the capital’s more feared underworld organisations. But they are no ordinary gangland outfit — they have connections with demonic entities that have helped them build their criminal empire. Jason is loyal to the Boucher patriarch Archie, but he’s dying, and soon there will be a transference of power…

SCARLET TRACES // EMPIRE OF BLOOD
by Ian Edginton (Writer) D’Israeli (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

England, the late nineteenth century. Earth has come under attack by Martian war machines, devastating huge swathes of the country with their heat rays and harvesting enormous numbers of people. Finally struck down by the planet’s viruses, the Martians’ assault collapses. Now, humanity is picking up the pieces and coming to terms with the aftermath, but there appears to be vestiges of the aliens left…

NU EARTH WAR TALES // THE SURVIVORS by Karl Stock (Writer) Karl Richardson (Artist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where the atmosphere has been rendered poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, immune to the pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. As he, together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, search for the traitor that sold them out, stories swirl around the characters involved in this conflict..

Available in print from the 2000AD webshop, TG Jones and select supermarkets, and comic shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android

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John Freeman

John  is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of  comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.

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