2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 602

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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 602 featuring ‘Rogue Trooper‘, ‘Moon Runners‘, ‘Strontium Dog‘, ‘Zenith‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 26 November 1988.

Cover Art Robot: John Higgins

Rogue appears to be drifting among the stars on this weeks cover!

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: Alan Grant

Art Robot: Chris Weston

Lettering Robot: S Potter

The visuals of this Dredd story are stunning and the story itself is comically tragic. It’s a full moon – and we all know what that means in Mega-City One – crime spikes. No wonder when we have just one poor individual end up killing three people by accident (well, the last one he did deliberately hit but death was not the expected outcome). Eventually he is apprehended and ends up being chucked in the meat wagon with another captured perp who says “I gotta agree with you there” when our man shouts at the moon saying how it’s all its fault – and we see his meat wagon companion is a werewolf!

Prog 602 barks at the moon! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 603.

Florix Grabundae!

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