Digital 2000 AD Prog 2273

The Coldest War

Writers: Dan Abnett, Ian Edginton, John Wagner, Mike Carroll

Artists: INJ Culbard, Leigh Gallagher, Jake Lynch, Dan Cornwell, Tiernen Trevallion

Colourers: Dylan Teague, Jim Boswell

Letterers: Annie Parkhouse, Jim Campbell , Simon Bowland

Cover Artist: Tiernen Trevallion

Episodes include:

Judge Dredd » The Citadel (Part 4)

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!

Kingmaker » Falls the Shadow (Part 10)

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...

PROTEUS VEX » Desire Paths (Part 12)

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...

Fiends Of The Eastern Front » 1963 (Part 1)

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first trooper to meet Constanta — the vampire was on the Western Front too, in France in 1916. Now, in 1963, the bloodsucking creature of the night has a new position in the Uncivil Service...

Brink » Mercury Retrograde (Part 4)

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 ...

Stories include:

• The Citadel
• Falls the Shadow
• Desire Paths
• 1963
• Mercury Retrograde