REBELLION / 2000AD
2000 AD PACK MAR 2017 #81
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Na
Blazing SF action from the Eisner-nominated UK anthology! The line-up of stories that kicked off 2017 - Kingmaker, The Order, Hope, and Kingdom - all wrap up in Prog 2022, plus there's a couple of short Judge Dredd stories. Then in Prog 2023 a brand-new line-up commences: graffiti proves dangerous in Judge Dredd: Get Jerry Sing by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, and then the Mechanismo robot Judges return in Harvey by John Wagner and John McCrea; hyper-powered secret agent John Blake faces his final case in Greysuit: Foul Play by Pat Mills and John Higgins; The Fall of Deadworld continues in Cursed by Kek-W and Dave Kendall; the fate of the galaxy is at stake in Scarlet Traces: Cold War Book 2 by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli; and Titus Defoe has to find who is controlling the zombies in the seventeenth century horror thriller Defoe: Die Hards by Pat Mills and Colin MacNeil!
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #382
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) NA
More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! "Big Meg" follows the history of Mega-City One as seen through the eyes of an ordinary citizen, by T.C. Eglington and Boo Cook; Psi-Judge Anderson is a prisoner of a clandestine society in "Dragon's Blood" by Alan Grant and Paul Marshall; the population of Badrock build their defences against the coming attack from Munce, Inc. in Lawless: "Long Range War" by Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade; and a brand-new series starts from Si Spencer and Jake Lynch, as we enter the strange Scandinavian world of HAVN! Plus in the bagged graphic novel this month an unearthed classic from the UK archives - Tornado's criminal caper The Lawless Touch by Kelvin Gosnell and Barrie Mitchell!
KINGDOM AUX DRIFT TP
(W) Dan Abnett (A) Richard Elson (CA) Richard Elson
Genetically modified dog-soldier Gene the Hackman wages war against giant insects in a Mad Max future. In the far future, mankind has been all but destroyed and survivors are forced to hide from "Them" - giant insectile creatures that have taken over the world - with only savage genetically engineered dog-soldiers like Gene the Hackman to guard them. Having travelled the Earth without his pack, Gene now leads a band of mongrel "aux" warriors known as the Wild Bunch. They live alongside some human survivors in The Kingdom. But "Them" are growing in number and the Kingdom is getting harder to defend!
THE ORDER DIE MENSCH MASCHINE TP
(W) Kek-W (A) John Burns (CA) John Burns
The Expendables meets H.P. Lovecraft as knights and robots take on a dark, hidden power in medieval Europe! In 13th-century Germany, while reading the papers of her dead father, young Anna Kohl uncovers a shocking secret - that defending Earth from an other-worldly menace is a secret cadre of warriors known only as The Order. Now she and her father's rag-tag former comrades must do battle with the sinister forces of these eldritch creatures! From Teutonic Knights with robot heads to gun-toting warriors in high speed pursuits on the streets of Elizabethan Engand, The Order is an incredible genre mash-up of medieval and Renaissance history, action movies, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, and Hammer Horror!