2000ADHD – A Prog a Day – Prog 872

Borag Thungg Earthlets! Please be aware that this post contains Amazon affiliate links – any purchases made via these links go towards supporting me and my content at no extra cost to yourself. You can also support me over on Ko-Fi, Patreon or PayPal if you wish and any donations are greatly appreciated and will be put to good use towards web-hosting costs and new content ideas.

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 872 featuring ‘Mother Earth‘, ‘Big Dave‘, ‘Revere‘, ‘Soul Gun Warrior‘ and ‘Judge Dredd‘, published on 28 January 1994.

Cover Art Robot: Carlos Ezquerra

My pick of the Prog is: Judge Dredd

Script Robot: Mark Millar

Art Robot: Nick Percival

Lettering Robot: Tom Frame

Crime Prevention is a nice little one-shot where we see Dredd doing what he does on the daily. It’s kinda narrated from the point of view of a Juve who re-applies to be a Judge after having failed at the age of five and gets a personal escort from Dredd himself, whom he looked up to. But it turns out the test results indicated an 87% probability of being a criminal and so the Juve was locked up instead. Poor we bugger. Wonder if we’ll see them again? It’s a potential origin story with revenge baked in.

Prog 872 prematurely incarcerates! Join me on the next one to see who/what grabs the pick of Prog 873.

Florix Grabundae!

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