2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 275

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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 275 featuring ‘Ace Trucking‘, ‘The Mean Arena‘, ‘Rogue Trooper‘, ‘Robo-Hunter‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 31 July 1982.

Cover Art Robot: Massimo Belardinelli

GBH gets fisty on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: TB Grover

Art Robot: C Ezquerra

Lettering Robot: T Frame

The Last of Us meets Judge Dredd in ‘Fungus‘. After the Apocalypse War, much of Mega-City One and it’s surrounding area has been greatly impacted by the nuclear fallout. A band of tramps are wandering when Grubby discovers some mushrooms and soon becomes infected by the spores released when he popped the fungus. The others cast him out and so he carries on towards a more populated area in hopes of finding help. Dredd quickly gets him quarantined and it turns out the fella was the Mayor!

I posted on my Instagram about this and Boo Cook made an interesting comment…

Prog 275 infected and no amount of fungal foot powder can relieve it! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 276.

Florix Grabundae!

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