On 26th March, the weekly anthology comic will publish a
special issue designed specifically to give new readers an easy place to start
reading. ‘Prog’ 1874 will feature the first parts of five new stories,
including two brand new series from some of the top talent the industry can
offer.
This 32-page issue will be available as a day-and-date
DRM-free digital download from the 2000 AD webshop, as well as through the 2000
AD iPad app.
Prog 1874 marks the return of Judge Dredd co-creator John
Wagner to the strip with JUDGE DREDD: MEGA-CITY CONFIDENTIAL, drawn by Scottish
artist Colin MacNeil. A whistleblower goes on the run, threatening to reveal
all about what Justice Department is up to in the mysterious Section Seven.
Pat Mills’ Celtic barbarian Sláine also returns, with a
brand new artist in a series Mills claims will top the artistic heights of
Simon Bisley’s famous work on Sláine: The Horned God. Simon Davis’ exquisite
painting adorns SLÁINE: A SIMPLE KILLING, in which the warrior travels to the
ancient isle of Monadh to save a captured maiden.
New York Times best-seller Dan Abnett’s future hitmen
Finnigan Sinister and Ramone Dexter are back in SINISTER DEXTER: GUN SHY, with
art by Smudge, as they cross Generica and gather weaponry for their war against
mob boss Moses Tanenbaum.
OUTLIER is a fresh new series from T.C. Eglington and Karl
Richardson in which a private detective hunts an alien entity who picks off
selected victims - could it have something to do with what happened to the crew
of the salvage vessel Outlier?
And JAEGIR: STRIGOI by Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby is
set in the world of 2000 AD classic character Rogue Trooper. Kapitan-Inspector
Atalia Jaegir serves in the Nordland State Security Police, hunting down the
war criminals that have escaped justice!
2000 AD Prog 1874
Published 26th March 2014
32 pages
£1.99/$2.99 digital, £2.45 (print)
