2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 465

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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 465 featuring ‘Ace Trucking‘, ‘The Ballad of Halo Jones‘, ‘Strontium Dog‘, ‘Tharg’s Future-Shocks‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 12 April 1986.

Cover Art Robot: Massimo Belardinelli

Some untucker clucker trucker shenanigans is going on on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Strontium Dog

Script Robot: Alan Grant

Art Robot: Carlos Ezquerra

Lettering Robot: Kid Robson

Back on Smiley’s World in 2158, Johnny Alpha and Wulf Sternhamer are staked out on the ground as Max Bubba watches them bake in the hot sun. With a final bout of strength and willpower, Wulf gets free but then gets killed. I always knew Wulf died but never knew how. I initially thought it was going to happen in a previous episode when he maybe fell into the volcano or something relatively epic. His death here felt anticlimactic in that a Viking deserves to go out in an epic way but then again, it’s the shock factor at the time where it wasn’t really building to it and he was in the same position as Johnny so maybe they’d both die? Anyway, despite the anticlimax it still made me feel gutted it happened and there’s no more happy stick bopping or cool cucumbers. Farewell, Wulf.

 

Prog 465 gets gunned down! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 466.

Florix Grabundae!

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