2000 AD #2477: Prog 2477

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! Call me The Mighty Tharg, for I am the allpowerful alien editor at the helm of 2000 AD! After last week’s bumper selection of Thrills, we’re back to the regular number of pages this prog, but no less thrumming with zarjazness as the third series of vampire vs aliens circuitscorcher Silver returns, courtesy of the regular creative team of Mike Carroll & Joe Currie. The previous arc ended with the Baroness being instrumental in the destruction of a French nuclear facility and almost obliterating herself in the process — but centuries-old vamps don’t die easily, and the occupying Sepsis want revenge against the resistance.Elsewhere, there’s more scrotnig action in Judge Dredd, Helium, Brink, and we have a complete Future Shock from the Johnson & McCoy droids! Next to the 22nd-century lawman, Future Shocks are one of the longest-running features of the GGC, and a master of these twist-in-thetales was undoubtedly Alan Moore.JUDGE DREDD // FLAMES AND WHITE PHOSPHORUS, Part TwoMega-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 TwoThe 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…SILVER // MALIGNANT, Part OneEarth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the resting place of a five hundred-year-old vampire, who may just help them against the alien Sepsis, who invaded the planet a few decades earlier. The vamp, called Baroness DeSilva, has proved powerful in battling the extra-terrestrials, and now, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, has just been instrumental in blowing up a nuclear facility…BRINK // THE CALL OF THE VOID, Part SixThe 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…THARG’S FUTURE SHOCKS // CLEAN SLATEOut in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…