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2000AD Prog 357: 100 Judge Dredd games to be won - this prog! Invasion of the berserks! Sláine

2000AD Prog 357: 100 Judge Dredd games to be won – this prog! Invasion of the berserks! Sláine

Cam Kennedy is back on Sláine – Sky Chariots cover duty as he depicts a one-on-one fight between Sláine and a Norseman berserker.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre shares space between two pieces of reader’s art, two letters, the voting coupon, an obligatory stamp advert and the Titan / Forbidden Planet advert for Judge Child Book Three.

Sláine: Sky Chariots – by Pat Mills and Mike McMahon. With a…

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2000AD Prog 356: "I'll have the biggest NOSE in Mega-City One!" "Glad to hear it son. It's about time you had an interest in life!" Citizen Snork Part 1

2000AD Prog 356: “I’ll have the biggest NOSE in Mega-City One!” “Glad to hear it son. It’s about time you had an interest in life!” Citizen Snork Part 1

Ron Smith’s back on the cover doing what he does best – depicting the eccentric (to put it politely) citizenry of Mega-City One. Obviously nostalgia is playing a part here, after all I’m re-reading the first few months I encountered and have been reading constantly for the last thirty-seven years, but these progs really are having classic story after classic story at the moment!

As I…

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2000AD Prog 354: "Easy meat! The wounded walk in for treatment - and we finish them off!"

2000AD Prog 354: “Easy meat! The wounded walk in for treatment – and we finish them off!”

Ezquerra provides the Strontium Dog cover which is basically the last panel of the last prog’s / first panel of this prog’s story with the window framing the cover.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre brings good news – work has finished on the 2000AD Annual 1985 – the reason it’s particularly good news is that astute readers will detect that 96 pages with 32 in full colour means it’s in the quality format…

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2000AD Prog 350: Tharg's 1984 calendar! Part One This Prog! D.R. & Quinch Go Straight! New Thrill!

2000AD Prog 350: Tharg’s 1984 calendar! Part One This Prog! D.R. & Quinch Go Straight! New Thrill!

Alan Davis is back on the cover (first time since Harry 20) heralding the first of a D.R. & Quinch series. For no reason I can work out, I hadn’t bought any weekly progs since Prog 342. I’ve said on a few occasions that I had a ‘first prog’. My first first prog was 308, the earliest of the batch of ten my neighbour at the time gave me. The second was 330, the first one I bought. The third was…

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2000AD Prog 290: Snap up a Pac-Man watch!

2000AD Prog 290: Snap up a Pac-Man watch!

Not Robin Smith’s finest hour as he portrays Tharg wearing a wristwatch for this cover, but one of the things a commercial artist has to do at times. I hasten to add that I’m fully expecting to nominate some of Robin’s artwork as grailpages in future progs, and he draws a pretty mean armoured Tharg (as seen in annuals) too!

On the subject of the Mighty One, Tharg’s Nerve Centre has a…

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Judge Dredd Annual 1982

Mike McMahon provides the cover for the second Judge Dredd Annual which has a very green theme going on (border, gloves and boots, rooftop gardens and jetpacking perp’s visor).

The contents page continues with the McMahon artwork as Dredd and a cohort of judges (what is the collective noun for judges, anyway?) stand outside the Hall of Justice.

Judge Dredd in Anatomy of a Crime! by T.B.…

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