In Review: 2000AD Prog 2091 (plus, a plug for the new Brink and Lawless books out now from Rebellion)

2000AD Prog 2091 - Cover

Mark Harrison might have delivered a dramatic cover and a stunning episode of “Grey Area” for this week’s 2000AD (Prog 2091), but it seems it’s Dan Abnett who’s taken over Rebellion’s output this week more than anyone else, with collections of Brink Book Two and the terrific Lawless: Long Range War (from the Judge Dredd Megazine) both out now – details below.

Phil Winslade‘s art on Lawless: Long Range War is absolutely astonishing – you really should take a look and give this series a try.

In 2000AD, it’s good to see David Hitchcock on a new “Terror Tales”, but it’s surely Argentinian artist Leonardo Manco, who delivers an astounding episode of “Judge Dredd” who’s work is going to be most talked about. You’ll recall this DC Comics and Marvel artist’s work on the “Rogue Trooper” story in Prog 2050 last year, but this story really hits the spot.

Episodes include:

Judge Dredd » A better class of criminal (part 1)
By Rory McConville (Writer) Leonardo Manco (Artist) Chris Blythe (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Mega-City One, 2140 AD. Home to over 100 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. With unemployment endemic and boredom universal, tensions are always on a knife-edge. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — future law-enforcers empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is The Law!

2000AD Prog 2091 - Judge Dredd

The Order » The New World (part 5)
by Kek-W (Writer) John Burns (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wyrms, creatures from another plane that systematically break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a secret band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But the Wyrms have fractured time, noble robot knight Ritterstahl has been lost, and The Order themselves are splintering…

2000AD Prog 2091 - The Order

Tharg’s Terror Tales » Quilli (part 1)
by Laura Bailey (Writer) David Hitchcock (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Experience the terrifying side of Thrill-power with these one-off tales from beyond the veil of sanity. Whether they be ghostly goings-on that send shivers up the spine or guts-to-the-wall splatterfests that sear the retina, nothing is what it seems in these glimpses of a terrifying realm beyond our own. Jez and Rachel is one of the UK’s most revered ventriloquist double acts, but now it’s being taken in a new direction…

2000AD Prog 2091 - Tharg's Terror Tales » Quilli

Grey Area » K.I.A. (part 2)
By Dan Abnett (Writer) Mark Harrison (Artist) Ellie De Ville (Letterer)

The mid 21st century. Earth has a heavily armed defence network, and any ETs arriving on the planet are housed in the Exo Segregation Zone, known as the GREY AREA, which is policed by squads of Exo Transfer Control officers like Captain Adam Bulliet and his team — wife Birdy, linguist Kymn, weapons expert Feo, and alien transfer Resting Bitch Face. Confronted with all manner of life forms, they have to keep the peace…

2000AD Prog 2091 - Grey Area

The Fall of Deadworld » Damned (part 11)
By Kek-W (Writer) Dave Kendall (Artist) Ellie De Ville (Letterer)

The planet that eventually became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a dimension parallel to our own. But the end of days is coming: riots, storms, food shortages. Creatures known as the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. Now, Judge Fairfax is in the hands of the enemy, and his young ward Jess has teamed up with a rebel militia fighting the creatures…

2000AD Prog 2091 - Deadworld

2000AD is on sale in all good UK newsagents, comic shops and on various digital platforms including from the 2000AD online shop

Also On Sale This Week…

Brink Volume Two - CoverBrink Volume Two
By Dan Abnett (Writer), INJ Culbard (Artist), Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Humanity is on the brink in the second critically-acclaimed volume of smash comics duo Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard’s atmospheric space-noir. Her past as an Investigator seemingly behind her, Bridget Kurtis is sent to the under-construction Galina Habitat as a security consultant. With a skeleton crew of engineers, architects and security personnel, construction is running behind schedule and Mariam Junot herself (the acting-CEO of Junot Corp) has arrived to find out why.

Amid rumours of haunting and disappearances, Kurtis uncovers a sect conspiracy that may be more insidious and far-reaching than she ever imagined. Either the claustrophobic life in the space Habitats is driving humanity insane, or there are influences at play beyond any human understanding!

Lawless: Long Range War - CoverLawless: Long Range War
By Dan Abnett (Writer) Phil Winslade (Artist) Ellie De Ville (Letterer)

Book two of Dan Abnett’s and Phil Winslade’s sci-fi Western epic!

Since Colonial Marshal Metta Lawless unveiled their plans, the merciless hypercorp now consider Badrock a liability and are preparing to quietly wipe the frontier town and all its residents off the map! Unfortunately the residents in question are an uncooperative and pugnacious group of Muties, Meks, Humans and Uplifted Gorillas who have just been permanently removed from Munce Inc.’s employee roster; getting them to work together for survival will be no easy task!

Metta and her disparate band of peace-keepers must get the locals to put aside their differences and fight against the corporate threat, before they lose more than just their jobs!

• Rebellion books are on sale in all good UK book shops, comic shops and on various digital platforms including from the 2000AD online shop

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