2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 365

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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 365 featuring ‘D.R. & Quinch‘, ‘Sláine‘, ‘Tharg’s Future-Shocks‘, ‘Strontium Dog‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 21 April 1984.

Cover Art Robot: Robin Smith

Tharg gives us the old Betelgeusian stare on this weeks cover.

My pick of the Prog is: D.R. & Quinch

Script Robot: Alan Moore

Art Robot: Alan Davis

Lettering Robot: Steve Potter

Following on from my previous pick, Marlon takes a stab at reading the script. It’s funny as most kids probably wouldn’t have scene The Godfather when they read this originally so my retrospectiveness allows me another different experience here, in that I’m reading Marlon’s dialogue (well, what I can read of it) in the voice of Vito Corleone. Which makes this even funnier. What I love about D.R. & Quinch is the writing is intelligent, brilliant and funny and the artwork adds to that and despite how silly and ridiculous the scenarios are, the writing and artwork gel together to make it work in a way that – I think – if anyone else were to try, they probably wouldn’t be able to make it work. At least not as well as the two Alans here.

 

Prog 365 gets left at the table read! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 366 – which marks one whole year of posting these silly blogs.

Florix Grabundae!

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