We’re back after last week’s all-ages intervention helmed by my nephew Joko, and Judge Dredd: A Fallen Man, Azimuth: The Stranger and Hershey: The Cold in the Bones are all continuing, while Portals & Black Goo reaches its ghafflebette finale. Joining the line-up is another of my 3rillers in the shape of the zarjaz Die Hoard by Eddie Robson and Nick Brokenshire, plus I publish the winning Art Stars Dredd one-pager by Alan Kerr!
We’re just three weeks away from the ultrascrotnig Prog 2350 and the amazing delights it contains - more news on what you‘ll find inside that bumper issue to come - but while you’re eagerly anticipating that particular Thrill-splurge, make sure you keep your circuits topped up by immersing yourself in Meg 459, which features three new stories: there’s a complete Dredd, another retro Mega-City 2099 thriller, and the start of IDW‘s short-lived Rogue Trooper series by Brian Ruckley and Alberto Ponticelli.
Add to that more Lawless, Dreadnoughts, Johnny Red and Spector, interviews with John Stokes and Steve Sampson and much more, it‘d be a crime to miss it!
Cover: Stewart K. Moore
- Judge Dredd - A Fallen Man (Part 6) (Ken Niemand - Tom Foster)
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a former Judge called Kyle Asher has returned from Titan, and is working for the Mob… - Portals & Black Goo - Night Shift (Part 7) (John Tomlinson - Eoin Coveney)
In the near future, the job market is more perilous than ever and Generation Y must take on any task to make ends meet. Kroy Plemons is a rider for Devouroo — a food delivery service for creatures of the night. Devouroo policy is ruthless and Kroy barely escapes with his life after being placed on the Night Shift. Elsewhere, Magister Dain makes a fateful call and Nona Nomus fights off a self-styled vampire-hunter… - Tharg’s 3rillers - Die Hoard (Part 1) (Eddie Robson - Nick Brokenshire)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Earth, the twenty-second century, in the aftermath of a brutal war with an alien race called the Imishoi. Humanity’s data-storage systems were attacked, as well as libraries, museums and archives, erasing vast swathes of culture and history… - Hershey - The Cold in the Bones (Part 6) (Rob Williams - Simon Fraser)
Barbara Hershey was a respected young officer before she became Chief Judge. Leading the city through numerous challenges, the ‘Small House’ affair and the revelation of Judge Smiley’s clandestine operations on her watch made her reevaluate her position. Seriously ill from a microbial virus, she’s faked her death to deal with his legacy, and now alien creatures are loose, the result of a drug operation… - Azimuth - The Stranger (Part 5) (Dan Abnett - Tazio Bettin)
Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams and portents, which seem to have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter…
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