It’s been a year since the release of Rebellion’s acclaimed videogame Atomfall, so this issue we return to that world for the start of a new three-parter, The Wicked Isle, by the regular creative team of Jonathan L. Howard & Anthony Williams (look out too for an Atomfall novel, The Omega Order,coming in July by James Lovegrove). Elsewhere, Karl Stock & Dan McDaid - who you might remember drawing IDW’s Dredd arc The Blessed Earth a decade ago - collaborate a complete case for the lawman, Fear City, and Chris Weston takes over art duties on Megatropolis, stepping in to complete the last four episodes of this second series following the sad passing of Dave Taylor last year. Meanwhile, there’s more Fargo & McBane, Dept K and Rok the World, plus we take a peek at the all-new Trigan Empire graphic novel coming next month from Mike Carroll & Tom Foster, there’s a deep-dive on DC Thomson’s superhero King Cobra, and much more. Make sure you don’t miss next issue as it features the start of major new Dredd epic The Black Tower, tying in with 2000 AD’s The Oubliette. Enjoy, citizens! JUDGE DREDD // FEAR CITYMega-City One, 2146 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens, bordered by the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Tensions run a knife-edge and crime is rampant. Stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the Law! MEGATROPOLIS II, Part SEVENImagine a Mega-City One from an alternate timeline - less the gleaming metropolis of the twenty-second century but instead an art deco retro-future variation. Joe Rico is the one good cop in a police department riddled with corruption, and partnered with the young Amy Jara, they investigated a series of vigilante killings committed by a robot… ATOMFALL // THE WICKED ISLE, Part OneWyndham village, 1958. A year ago, reporter Jenny Coggins was sent by her newspaper to write a story on the Windscale Atom Plant, but she’d been receiving inside information that all was not what it seemed with the facility. While she was there, however, the plant exploded, and the entire area was quarantined by the military - now a new society has developed, and more mysteries emerge… FARGO & MCBANE // FAVOURED SONS, Part TwoNew York City, the 1970s. Detective Jack McBane was one of the toughest cops to patrol the metropolis, having no compunction in handing out summary justice upon criminals. Although his ruthless attitude wins him few friends, he has one in Officer Eartha Fargo, who’s partnered with him to investigate strange crimes on the mean streets of the Big Apple… ROK THE WORLD // Chapter FourDEPARTMENT K // …NO MORE, Part ThreeMega-City One, 2148 AD. Justice Department has many divisions within it tasked with dealing with the various threats that face the metropolis. The mysterious Department K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies that are seeking to break through the walls of reality. Young intern Afua recently had an encounter with one such entity…
