2000 AD #2476: Prog 2476

I am The Mighty Tharg, Betelgeusian bringer of Thrills — welcome to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! Make sure you upgrade your Thrill-buffers, Terrans, because you’re about to absorb a bumper amount of zarjazness, direct into your eyeballs — this is the first extra-sized prog of 2026, and I’ve got scrotnig delights aplenty to energise and entertain.Within these scrotnig pages you’ll find the start of a new Judge Dredd story Flames & White Phosphorus by T.C. Eglington & Paul Marshall, plus the doublelength opener to Ian Edginton & D’Israeli’s steampunk aerial drama Helium, with Red October picking up where 2023’s Scorched Earth left off (Progs 2351-2363), as Hodge and Sol face being blackmailed into returning to Ris, the city beneath the Poison Belt.Alongside the latest instalment of Brink, there’s also two complete tales — a one-off Rogue Trooperfrom Andi Ewington & Karl Richardson, and a special Red Dragon epilogue to last year’s hit series, courtesy of the regular creative team of Rob Williams, Steve Yeowell & Patrick Goddard!JUDGE DREDD // FLAMES AND WHITE PHOSPHORUS, Part OneMega-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!HELIUM // RED OCTOBER, Part OneThe far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eightyfive per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged from a city below the belt, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge was tasked with protecting him, but it came at great cost…RED DRAGON // THE LLANGENECH INCIDENTSiadwell Rhys was once a member of sixties British superhero team Cloud 9, who operated under the name RED DRAGON. When they disbanded due to illness and loss of powers, Siadwell returned to his home village in Wales, where his heavy drinking caught up with him. All he wanted to do was be left alone, but the British establishment wasn’t going to ignore a potentially dangerous superhero…BRINK // THE CALL OF THE VOID, Part FiveThe late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division is investigating their reach…ROGUE TROOPER // ENEMY MINEDNu 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. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, the digitised souls of his dead comrades, he searches for the traitor that betrayed the clone-soldiers…