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Multiver-City One: 2000 AD Prog 1858

By and | November 13th, 2013
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Welcome, citizens, to this week’s installment of Multiver-City One! Each and every Wednesday we will be examining the latest Prog from Tharg and the droids over at 2000 AD, and giving you all the pertinent information you’ll need headed into this week’s Thrill-Zine!

I. THIS WEEK IN PROG 1858

NOW ARRIVING- Judge Dredd: Ferals

Emma Beeby, the first woman to ever write a Judge Dredd strip, is back to pen a brand new tale of The Meg. While on a routine call, Dredd encounters a band of street children in the ruins of the Lindsay Lohan Block. These kids certainly do not trust the helmeted lawman, and they are armed to the teeth. Apparently, they think they need to defend themselves from monsters. Isn’t that just the cutest little thing you ever heard? Monsters, indeed!

I’m excited to see where this story goes. Not only am I curious about these post Chaos Day street urchins, but I am completely enamored with Burns’ art. His painterly approach to comic art feels almost Rockwellian at times, opening the strip with a rosy-cheeked little blonde boy playing a future version of cops and robbers. It’s almost a picture-book perfect dystopian America!

Credits: Emma Beeby (script), John Burns (art), Annie Parkhouse (letters)

NOW DEPARTING- Tharg’s 3rillers: Rewind

This is it! Almost as quickly as it appeared, another one of Tharg’s 3rillers is gone. The real twist of the tale came in the second chapter, so this final installment was all the exposition you need to have a tidy and satisfying conclusion. Not much to go into without spoiling, so let’s just say there’s plenty of comeuppance for the guilty, as well as an ending that leaves plenty of room for a future writer to come in and expand the story.

Credits: Robert Murphy (script), Jesus Redondo (art), Eva De La Cruz (color), Ellie De Ville (letters)

II. ACROSS THE BLACK ATLANTIC

IDW TO LAUNCH MEGA-CITY TWO MINI-SERIES

When it comes to bringing the long arm of Dredd’s law from the UK to the US, 2000 AD enlisted the help of IDW to put out new tales of Judge Dredd for the American market. This includes the Judge Dredd ongoing by Duane Swierczynski and Nelson Daniel and the all-reprint Judge Dredd Classics, as well as supplemental minis like Year One. But this January, IDW will give readers everywhere their first real in-depth look at Mega-City Two, the west coast counterpart to Dredd’s Mega-City One. Bringing this rarely referenced and barely seen locale into stunning focus is writer Douglas Wolk and artist Ulises Farinas.

“(Ulises) instinctively has a feel for this stuff,” Wolk said in a recent interview with Multiver-City One. “Totally American, it’s very compatible with what we’ve seen over the last 35 years, but it has a very different look and feel to it than any kind of Dredd story I’ve ever seen, and I love that.” And as the writer of Dredd’s Comportment, the ongoing historical backups in the IDW series, as well as the proprietor of the Dredd Reckoning review blog, he’s seen a LOT of Dredd stories. But this won’t be just a scenic tour of the Second Meg, by any means.

“It’s a hyper-violent, science fiction tribute to Joan Didion,” said Wolk only half-jokingly. “It’s a chance to talk about California and Los Angeles in that satirical Dredd way, but it’s also a chance to do one of my very favorite kind of Dredd stories, which is where Dredd has to go somewhere else and he is totally and culturally a fish out of water. In Mega-City Two, they do things a little differently. Actually, a LOT differently. I wanted to see what putting him in this very different American setting would bring out in him that we usually don’t get to see. Dredd with his tools taken away from him, and thrown into an environment that he’s not used to, not the city that he knows and is a part of. We’ll see what happens. Plus? Ulises Farinas, so it’s going to look amazing no matter what.”

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Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two will run five issues starting in January 2014, and is available for pre-order now from your LCS. Look for our full talk with Douglas Wolk in a few weeks.

III. AN ORAL HISTORY OF JUDGE DREDD

The tale of Judge Dredd has been continually published since 1977, and has been brought to us by some of the most creative minds to ever work in comics. As a result, there have been some out-of-this-world story beats woven into the fabric of the character. We thought it would be interesting to talk with the writers and artists behind Mega-City One and see what their favorite bits of Dredd’s history are. This week, PJ Holden returns to talk about Dead Man, Necropolis, and Dredd in the bath.

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(Here’s the direct download)

 

IV. FUTURE PERP FILES

ATTN: ALL CITIZENS OF THE MEG! Be aware that there is always a Judge watching you. Each sector is equipped with millions of HD-CCTV and bioID units. They are there for your protection. If your intent is upright citizenry, then you have no qualm with our surveillance. And remember: if you see something, you are now an accessory to a crime. That’s six months in an Iso-Cube, creep! Random CPU algorithms has selected this citizen for immediate surveillance and assessment…

That’s gonna do it for us this week! Prog 1858 is on sale today and is available from finer comic shops everywhere, from 2000ADonline.com, and via the 2000 AD Newsstand app for iPad and iPhone. So as Tharg the Mighty himself would say, “Splundig vur thrigg!”

 


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Greg Matiasevich

Greg Matiasevich has read enough author bios that he should be better at coming up with one for himself, yet surprisingly isn't. However, the years of comic reading his parents said would never pay off obviously have, so we'll cut him some slack on that. He lives in Baltimore, co-hosts (with Mike Romeo) the Robots From Tomorrow podcast, writes Multiversity's monthly Shelf Bound column dedicated to comics binding, and can be followed on Twitter at @GregMatiasevich.

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Mike Romeo

Mike Romeo started reading comics when splash pages were king and the proper proportions of a human being meant nothing. Part of him will always feel that way. Now he is one of the voices on Robots From Tomorrow. He lives in Philadelphia with two cats. Follow him on Instagram at @YeahMikeRomeo!

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