We take a look at this week’s cyberpunk and dystopian comic releases.

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THE LAST DRIVER #1

From the publisher –

AMERICA, THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE—NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE…EXCEPT FOR HIM! As technology in America advanced, cities began creating the GRID—a robotic transportation system that not only made cars obsolete, it made them illegal. But an outlaw named “Clutch” has no choice but to get behind the wheel one more time. What starts out as a race to save his granddaughter’s life quickly turns into a rebellion against technology, fascism, and the future of a divided America. 

The Last Driver is a brand new comic series, created by Sean Murphy. It’s a gritty love letter to the classic American road stories, a Mad Max for the cyberpunk genre. High octane, 100 mph, playing like a last hurrah for driving without care before the process is completely sanitised by automation.

IF DESTRUCTION BE OUR LOT #4

From the publisher –

END OF STORY ARC Abe can’t stop seeing her everywhere he looks. Electricity addiction really is no laughing matter. Can he kick the habit before he gets junked? Maybe a trip outside the walls will help Abe clear his circuits…or just clog his gears to a standstill. The breakout hit of the summer is about to enter a whole new world.

If Destruction Be Our Lot is a series set in a world where humanity has died out, and all that remains are the robots that we built continuing on with their programmed tasks. The series follows an Abraham Lincoln animatronic that is experiencing loneliness, and goes out in search of any remaining humanity.

REBELLION

2000 AD #2496

From the publisher –

Call me The Mighty Tharg, for I am the being from Betelgeuse who brings you weekly Thrills!

The convergence is happening, my Squaxx — the plot threads of the Dredd epic The Oubliette are coming together as the Finders in Mega-City One close in on locating Dredd, who himself has battled is way up the levels of the mysterious prison towards escape.

This week, we’ve got two episodes of The Oubliette in the prog, and over in Meg 495 — on sale right now! — there’s the final instalment of The Black Tower. Make sure you read this prog’s episodes before you immerse yourselves in the Meg’s storyline!

Elsewhere, we’ve got the latest instalments of Brink, The Fall of Deadworld and Nightmare New York, while in this month’s Megazine there’s the start of two new arcs for Storm Warning by John Reppion & Lee Carter and Mega-City 2099 by Ken Niemand & Conor Boyle, plus more Lawless, Rogue Trooper and The Angry Planet, as well as chats with creators such as James Lovegrove, Emily Roach, Si Spurrier & Mike Dowling!

Be here in seven, Terrans, for another bumper prog as The Oubliette builds towards its climax!

2000 AD is a British science fiction comic book, which has been publishing for nearly 50 years 1977, famed for its dark British humour, and satirical and subversive stories. The jewel in the crown is Judge Dredd, a dystopian cyberpunk icon, whilst The Fall of Deadworld is a kind of an alternative history prequel series about Judge Dredd enemy Judge Death. Meanwhile Mega-City 2099 stories serve as a more traditional prequel.

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #495

From the publisher –

The Black Tower concludes in this month’s Megazine, and Judge Dredd and Mega-City One will never be the same again! Who is left standing as we reach the end of the Mega-Epic storyline?

This month also welcomes back “Storm Warning” to the Meg — the story of a psi-judge with the ability to see the dead! When Storm is summoned to a stately home, little does she know that she’s heading straight into a murder-mystery setting — can her powers help her find the culprit?

And this packed Megazine also features the frontier justice of “Lawless”, intense futuristic warfare in “Rogue Trooper”, as well as the return of “Mega-City 2099”, telling new never-seen-before stories from Dredd’s youth!

Sister publication to 2000 AD, offering more Judge Dredd, more Mega-City 2099, as well as Rogue Trooper, a military scifi making its way to cinema screens soon with Duncan Jones’ movie adaptation (release date not yet determined).

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