2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 420

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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!

I’ve recently started working on a Letterboxd list, compiling movies that have/may have influenced strips within 2000 AD and adjacent titles such as Misty and Scream! Feel free to check it out here, drop me a follow and let me know of any other titles I should add.

Without further ado…

Welcome to Prog 420 featuring ‘Anderson Psi Division‘, ‘Tharg’s Future-Shocks‘, ‘Sláine‘, ‘Breathless‘, ‘Strontium Dog‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 1 June 1985.

Cover Art Robot: Glenn Fabry

Sláine is surrounded by femme fatales on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: T B Grover

Art Robot: Ian Gibson

Lettering Robot: T Frame

This is a bit of an interesting pick as this episode ties in with Anderson Pis Division in the same Prog – I don’t think that’s been done before here in 2000 AD, where two separate stories are interlinked within the same issue. And I bloody love it as this focuses less on the supernatural and the Dark Judges which, I’m kinda confused as to why Dredd isn’t adamant to follow up on them given their history, but Dredd is still classic Dredd here when he stumbles upon a missing perp who has inadvertently been outed by the actions of the Dark Judges. And him busting through a door in an old folks’ home on his Lawmaster is just comedic overkill.

Prog 420 claims its pension! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 421.

Florix Grabundae!

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