2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 211

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Welcome to Prog 211 featuring ‘Strontium Dog‘, ‘Tharg’s Future-Shocks‘, ‘Return to Armageddon‘, ‘Meltdown Man‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 9 May 1981.

Cover Art Robot: Dave Gibbons

Judge Dredd is literally surrounded by lawbreakers on this weeks cover.

My pick of the Prog is: Tharg’s Future-Shocks

Script Robot: G Rice

Art Robot: M White

Lettering Robot: P Knight

A desperate World President finds himself needing a distraction for the baying mob so as not to cost him the next election. What unfolds is something far-fetched and crazy but its not leaps and bounds away from where we are today with the absurd, crazy and harmful things all these various politicians do and say.

In this story, it is decided that if they find the person responsible for starting civilisation. In thinking similar to that of Judge Death, if they kill the person responsible for creating civilisation then they are killing the root cause of their current civil unrest. After digging through time, it is discovered that Ernesto Hornetz must die but, it turns out he isn’t the one responsible…

Prog 211 sent to the chopping block! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 212.

Florix Grabundae!