2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 337

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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 337 featuring ‘Nemesis the Warlock‘, ‘Strontium Dog‘, ‘Sláine‘, ‘Rogue Trooper‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 8 October 1983.

Cover Art Robot: Kevin O’Neill

Nemesis becomes a baby daddy on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Strontium Dog

Script Robot: Alan Grant

Art Robot: Carlos Ezquerra

Lettering Robot: Jack Potter

After the death of Moses Quest (how cool a name is that? Sounds like a 90s kids TV show) Johnny decides to go a bit Pet Sematary and take his body to somewhere that he can bring him back. I feel like Wulf could have channelled his inner Judd Crandall and said something like “Sometimes der dead cucumber is better”. Or something. Anyway, this isn’t going to go well is it? Necromancy and all that black magic (or in the words of Paulie in The Sopranos: “Satanic black magic. Sick shit!”)

I think this is probably the darkest storyline so far in the Progs – I’m not sure it would wash with today’s standards despite the crap our kids see on YouTube and TikTok or just even out and about in public but I know for a fact if I had read this as a kid I would have devoured it for I myself am strange and unusual…

 

Prog 337 exhumed! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 338.

Florix Grabundae!

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