2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 521

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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 521 featuring ‘Anderson Psi Division‘, ‘Nemesis the Warlock‘, ‘Rogue Trooper‘, ‘Strontium Dog‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 9 May 1987.

Cover Art Robot: Barry Kitson

Anderson feels the heat on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: Wagner/Grant

Art Robot: Brett Ewins

Lettering Robot: T Frame

This isn’t your typical fare with Dredd – this is a fun little set of pages depicting Judges if they did advertising and each ad has a different artist/artists. I particularly loved the opening, gloriously coloured double-pager and anyone from the UK from pre-2000s should recognise the familiar blue and yellow wrapper – in real life it was called a YORKIE and the advertising was heavily aimed at these bars of chocolate being for men. Obviously something that they did away with as times changed and, I think, the bars themselves may also have been done away with? Anyway, what made me laugh was the notion of Judges advertising but also the fact that “berk” means a fool or idiot, or someone who is annoying. Or there’s the Cockney rhyming slang of Berkshire Hunt meaning… Cunt.

 

Prog 521 cuts to commerials! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 522.

Florix Grabundae!

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