2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 310

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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 310 featuring ‘Time Twisters‘, ‘Skizz‘, ‘Tharg The Mighty‘, ‘Rogue Trooper‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 2 April 1983.

Cover Art Robot: Mike McMahon

Dredd begs for death as he is under the influence… of a tentacled testicle from outer space on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Time Twisters

Script Robot: Alan Moore

Art Robot: Dave Gibbons

Lettering Robot: DC Gibbons

So far, it seems a dead cert that if there’s a Time Twisters tale penned by Alan Moore, that’s it: that’s my pick. And this Prog is no maintains the trend. If it wasn’t for me listening to The Ralph Report I wouldn’t have appreciated this as much. I’ve heard of Dragnet but didn’t know anything about it, but Ralph Garman would play segments from the show every Friday (seeing as the lead character was Joe Friday) episode for a period of time. As a result. I read all of Joe Saturday’s dialogue in Jack Webb’s voice. This future-noir crime caper is an amusing Minority Report-esque tale with a dark and comical twist. Fantastic work and I believe this may be the first team up between Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons?

Prog 310 gets outed by a pre-cog! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 311.

Florix Grabundae!

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