2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 291

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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 291 featuring ‘Ace Trucking‘, ‘Harry Twenty on the High Rock‘, ‘Tharg’s Future-Shocks‘, ‘Rogue Trooper‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 20 November 1982.

Cover Art Robot: Ian Gibson

Dredd hunkers down by a corpse as this weeks cover announces the arrival of The Executioner.

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

Script Robot: A Moore

Art Robot: M White

Lettering Robot: P Bensberg

In this Future-Shock we are treated to a seemingly familiar tale – a dying planet and a father, a man of science, sending his son to a new home in a rocket moments before the death of their homeworld. Instead of Krypton, it’s Klakton. The twist in this, however, is delicious in that Klakton doesn’t blow up and they remain perfectly safe and the child’s father shrugs it off with a nervous chuckle before being locked up. Scheduled to arrive on Earth in 1939 (not long after the creation of Superman) the child, N-Ree doesn’t actually arrive until 1983 which, thanks to early-warning radar systems and geopolitical tensions, the poor bugger triggers a global war before he has even landed.

Prog 291 makes a major miscalculation! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 292.

Florix Grabundae!

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