2000 AD (2000 AD #2270)

Episodes include:
• Judge Dredd » The Citadel (part 1)
Mega-City One, 2144 AD. Home to over 180 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Unemployment is rife, and boredom universal. Tensions rest on a constant knife-edge. Crime is rampant and only the Judges - zero-tolerance cops empowered to dispense instant justice - can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD - he is the Law!

• PROTEUS VEX » Desire Paths (part 9)
Another galaxy, the far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX - who is operated by a flesh-pilot - has now become an enemy of the Alliance when he released information about past war crimes...

• Indigo Prime » Whatever happened to Mickey Challis? (part 1)
The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, with most of the personnel lost. Mickey Challis is about to be extracted by IP head Clive Vista...

• Kingmaker » Falls the Shadow (part 7)
The Nine Kingdoms may have defeated Ichnar the Wraith King to live in relative peace, but they hadn’t reckoned on the Thorn - a race of aliens that occupied their world with the intention of strip-mining its magic. Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and dryad Princess Yarrow believe they may have the means to stop them - not least because Crixus can somehow conjure the Ebora, the world-spirit. But Ichnar has manifested in Ablard...

• Tharg The Mighty » Stars on 45 (part 1)
The Nerve Centre, Earth, 2022 AD. Within this fortified bunker nestled in Oxford, Betelgeusian editor THARG THE MIGHTY corrals his creator-droids to bring the planet’s Squaxx the gift of Thrill-power via the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. He’s been doing this for forty-five years now, and as the anniversary approaches he’s got certain ideas on how to celebrate the milestone event..

• The Order » Fantastic Voyage (part 9)
Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are the men and women of THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and now the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Anna Kohl and the others, fleeing Bacon, have tumbled over Times Edge...

• Brink » Mercury Retrograde (part 1)
The 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 both the Habitat Security Division and certain journalists are investigating ...