2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 266

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Welcome to my personal Prog slog through 2000AD. Here, I post daily about my favourite story from each Prog. I started doing this as a means of focusing my attention on something. A hobby, if you will. Something that will bring joy and fond memories for fans as well as draw attention to and hopefully bring in new readers to The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. I have never read these Progs before. I recall reading some of Flesh at some point in my childhood, knew of Judge Dredd from a PlayStation One game and then the 1995 Movie, Rogue Trooper from the PlayStation 2 Game and had heard of other stories and seen other characters from seeing posts online. So I’m pretty much experiencing most of these stories as an intergalactic virgin. Or something. So if you are an established reader whose loyalty to Tharg has been unwavering, or if you’ve dropped off reading 2000AD, lie somewhere in between or if you are a newcomer to The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic then please let me know via the comments or hit me up on my socials!

Without further ado…

Welcome to Prog 266 featuring ‘Ace Trucking‘, ‘The Mean Arena‘, ‘Rogue Trooper‘, ‘Robo-Hunter‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 29 May 1982.

Cover Art Robot: Ian Gibson

Slade gets dragged across the Brit-Cit sky on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: TB Grover

Art Robot: C Ezquerra

Lettering Robot: Frame

The Apocalypse War continues as Dredd and his crack team of Mega-City One Judges storm the East Meg base of operations and launch nukes to wipe East-Meg One off the map! This episode felt very Metal Gear Solid with the tactical espionage action and Dredd gets to bust a zinger in the way of “Request denied”. I also really enjoyed the exchange with the East Megger who refused to give up the codes stating he would rather “die a thousand times” to which Dredd responds “I’d settle for just once” before getting Anderson to obtain the codes from his mind. Fantastic Dredd work and humour as always.

Prog 266 launched upon East-Meg One! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 267.

Florix Grabundae!

Have you read this Prog? If so, what was your favourite strip? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!