Get ready for all-out action! This week’s edition of 2000AD, Prog 2449, clears the decks for all-new thrills ahead with a Jump-on issue next week.

Today sees the dramatic conclusion of “Tunnels”, the Judge Dredd thriller which has seen the Lawman of the Future take to the jungle in search of his target! 

From Rob Williams and RM Guera, this is the first of three finales this week, as “The Ravilious Pact” comes to a bloody end, and “Scarlet Traces” also concludes!

Don’t miss out!

2000 AD Prog 2449
UK and DIGITAL: 10 September August £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 29 October $28.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: JUL250841
COVER: Toby Willsmer

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD // TUNNELS 
by Rob Williams (Writer) RM Guera (Artist) Giulia Brusco (Colourist) Jim Campbell (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. 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! Now, he’s been tracking a terrorist in the Amazon, following an attack on a Sector House…

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 was loyal to the Boucher patriarch Archie, but he’s now died, and power has transferred to his unstable son Todd…

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…

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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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