2000 AD #2483: Prog 2483

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! Welcome to your weekly Thrill-fix, courtesy of me, The Mighty Tharg, alien editor extraordinaire! A major event in the Dreddverse starts this week, Terrans, and it’s a story so big that it couldn’t be contained in just the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. This prog features the first double-length episode of The Oubliette by Ken Niemand & Dan Cornwell, with Ol’ Stoney-Face waking up in the titular mysterious dungeon, with no idea as to how he got there or who’s behind his incarceration.Meanwhile, over in Meg 492 — on sale this very week! — you’ve got the Mega-City side of things in the shape of The Black Tower, by Niemand & Nick Percival, as an ominous building suddenly materialises in the middle of the metropolis, causing massive psychic shock.Make sure you don’t miss a single episode of this epic story as it runs over the summer months, Earthlets, as you’ll discover how the two threads are connected — and if you need a quick refresh on the lead up to The Oubliette, the Dredd story Messengers is available now as a free download from 2000AD.com (check out the QR code on the inside back cover of this pulse-pounding issue)!JUDGE DREDD // THE OUBLIETTE, 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 EightThe 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 SevenEarth, 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 TwelveThe 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…