2000 AD #2482: Prog 2482

I am The Mighty Tharg, the galactic green godhead at the helm of this awesome anthology! Welcome back to Thrill-power Central, my Squaxx, as once again I’m here to supercharge your reality with your regular weekly injection of cosmic excitement, courtesy of this illustrious organ. Inside you’ll find the latest instalments of Helium, Brink and Silver, plus the finales to both the 3riller Poster Girl and the Dredd tale Crossed Lines.JUDGE DREDD // CROSSED LINES, 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 SevenThe 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 SixEarth, 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 ElevenThe 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 3RILLERS // POSTER GIRL, Part ThreeThree episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! In the near future, the Avalon Project created supersoldiers to fight wars and protect the UK. Years later, these experimental troops are all dead, their identities mostly forgotten, but one group of journalists think they can track down a survivor…