2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 711

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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 711 featuring ‘Judge Anderson‘, ‘Junker‘, ‘Silo‘, ‘Time Flies‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 29 December 1990.

Cover Art Robot: Philip Bond

Bertie looks set to twat Trace with a snowball as she builds a Dredd snowman on this weeks cover.

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: Garth Ennis

Art Robot: C Ezquerra

Lettering Robot: T Frame

Garth Ennis gets his hand son Dredd with the ‘Death Aid’ storyline. A hilarious play on ‘Live Aid‘, this charity event sees hunters kill random civilians to rack up points akin to a Future-Shock tale back in Prog 480 only this is deliciously darker and the wordplay, visuals and humour are on point. The story opens with a dead civ and Dredd on scene before we cut to ten days prior and the Hunters’ Club is back. This story could be a phenomenal one -I have a good feeling about this as I love Garth Ennis’ dark comedy. And the fact the hunters have fucking printed T-Shirts and pins for the cause… Hold my beer, the ROFLcopter is coming.

 

Prog 711 shows us charity begins in death! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 712.

Florix Grabundae!

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