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2000AD Prog 1637 - 27 May 2009

Judge Dredd (Rennie/Holden)

Zombo (Ewing / Flint)
Slaine (Mills / Langley)
Cradlegrave (Smith / Bagwell)
Savage (Mills / Goddard)
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Synopsis by Gavin Hanly
No review this week
Summaries contain spoilers for this issue.

2000AD Thrill 1
2000 AD: Judge Dredd
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It Came From Bea Arthur Block - Part 1

Script: Gordon Rennie
Art: PJ Holden
Colours: Chris Blythe
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
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2000AD: Judge Dredd
Things get hairy for Leon...


Synopsis: The bald Leon Lutz, has just returned from Felder's World, ready to take part in the sector Slaphead championships. Only a small spot on his head threatens to spoil his chances - until the spot turns out to be a parasite, but promises to do him no harm if they work together. Elsewhere, Dredd is dealing with a naked human who also seems to be possessed by the "concordate of Zzzm" - and, after defeating it, expects more of the same...





2000AD: Thrill 2
2000AD: Zombo
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Part 6

Script: Al Ewing
Art: Henry Flint
Letters: Ellie De Ville
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2000Ad - Zombo

More flesh-eating bad guys...



Synopsis: The survivors and Zombo are captured by some inbred mutant cannibals who crashed on the planet while they were being ferried to a world where they could be dissected and researched upon. They start carving up one of the survivors limb by limb, while Agent Ying tells them to stay away from Zombo who hasn't recovered from the gas. They kill the agent and as they cut into Zombo, he enters Emergency Defence Mode, killing a couple of the cannibals and taking the remaining two survivors with him. They rush off, straight into something they call the "Death Shadow" the creature that's been stalking them...

 


2000AD: Thrill 3
2000AD: Slaine
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The Gong Beater - Part 2

Script: Pat Mills
Art: Clint Langley
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
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2000Ad - Slaine

There's little else Ukko responds to...



Synopsis: Slaine beats the gong, summoning a Cyth. Slaine defeats the Cyth and Ukko tells him that it has happened before. Ukko believes that the gong can set up a doorway in time and space to get rid of the Cyth's but it's too late as "The Dark Gods are returning"





2000AD: Thrill 4
2000AD: Cradlegrave
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Part 5

Script: John Smith
Art: Edmund Bagwell
Letters: Ellie De Ville
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2000AD - Cradlegrave

Ted delivers a dark warning...



Synopsis: The neighbourhood seems to think that it was Cal's dad who ran over the girl, so the police are looking for Shane and Cal. Meanwhile, Ted arrives home from shopping to find Cal still at his house, throwing up in the garden - and Ted says Mary's taken a shine to him. Later, Cal and Shane's brother Craig arrive to take him to Ted and Mary's to sort out an alibi. They go into see Mary - who appears to be a grotesquely bloated creature...

 





2000AD: Thrill 5
2000AD: Savage
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1984 - Part 5

Script: Pat Mills
Art: Patrick Goddard
Letters: Simon Bowland
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2000Ad - Savage

Savage was thankful for the handily thematic pinball machine...



Synopsis: Savage and Tyler fight off the police, who have caught up to their van. The Americans drop an E bomb, which helps them escape to the meeting point. Savage is extracted by helicopter, so that he can give the Americans him information before thousands are ambushed by the Volgans in the upcoming invasion...





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