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2000AD Goes To 2nd Print for The First Time With Prog 2000 (ACTUAL ART UPDATE)

Published Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:00:29 -0500

Last updated Sun, 02 Oct 2016 15:03:48 -0500

2000AD has never gone to second print with any of its issues before. It prints in bulk, it has plenty on hand for reorders and back issues, the comics stay in stock.

Until last week's Prog 2000, the 2000th issue of 2000AD. 48 hours of going on sale, publishers Rebellion are warming up the printing mills for a second run at it, as both distributors and their own warehouses are completely out.

The second print will have a black-and-white version of the celebration cover by Glenn Fabry. Which will look something like this, I guess.

UPDATE: I was close, here's the actual art.

It will be available to comic book stores from Diamond, and 2000 AD's webshop will also be restocked.

2000 AD Prog 2000 features work by Brian Bolland, Mick McMahon, Kevin O'Neill, Pat Mills, John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Dan Abnett and many more. It features Bolland's first sequential work for 2000 AD since 1987, as well as the first Nemesis the Warlock strip since 1999. It was published with three variant covers – the newsstand editions were by Chris Burnham and Cliff Robinson, while the Fabry cover was available only from comic book stores.

Matt Smith, editor of 2000 AD, said: "It's fantastic to see Prog 2000 has been so well received, and there's such huge demand for it. It's unprecedented that an issue of 2000 AD has had to go back for a second printing, so this really has become a landmark event in the comic's history."

Bleeding Cool reviewed it here.

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