#break-outs

2000AD Prog 428: Supersurf Rules Okeydokey! “Ground those skyhogs!”

Tharg knows he has a hit on his hands as Midnight Surfer gets it’s third cover in five weeks (appearing every second week so far). I think the only thing stopping it from getting a fourth cover is that the next episode may be the last, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Oh, and Cam provided the art. Tharg’s Nerve Centre points out that this week’s replacement for the first Anderson Psi Division is…

2000AD Prog 378: Ace Garp is OUT! “We’s truckin’, buddies!”

It seems like ages since Belardinelli made it on to the cover and this time it’s to re-introduce (or introduce in my case) Ace Garp to squaxx.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre has one reader point out that Worm’s Head Island is surrounded by strong tidal waters, which wasn’t shown in Sláine: Dragon Heist. Rather than point out that the story takes place before the flood, Tharg just blames the droids.…

2000AD Prog 332: The Battle of Dun Barc

This wraparound cover by Massimo Bellardinelli has, I think, a first for 2000AD – we’ve had nudity from the very first prog, but this one puts it on the cover, but for body paint. This was one of the posters / cover posters which adorned my wall as a child.

Tharg plugs both next prog’s free gift and the climax of Project Thrill-Power Unlimited in Prog 335 in this week’s Nerve Centre. An…

2000AD Prog 206: “Get this welded, pal!” BZZZ-ZZT!

Not your usual cover, as this Ian Gibson Robo-Hunter contribution is viewed through a chain-link fence.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre opens with news that the Mighty One appeared on The Tube (eighties British teen and twenty-something music programme for those in the wrong country or decade to have heard of it) and the letters are all about that appearance. It doesn’t make clear whether Tharg appeared…

2000AD Prog 300: Free badge for every reader! Plus collect Prog 1 of 2000AD First 4 micro-pages this prog! Prog 300

I want to say this is a jump-on prog, but with three continuing stories it isn’t. The composite cover features plundered artwork from Carlos Ezquerra, Ian Gibson and Colin Wilson or Dredd, Slade and Rogue respectively, plus – if you remove the badge – a Tharg’s head hiding underneath. Not an incredibly inspiring cover, but it certainly gets the message that this is prog 300 across.

Tharg’s…

2000AD Prog 299: “Stop the world – I wanna get on!” Escape from the High Rock!

It’s a big week for Harry, and so he gets this cover from Alan Davis (second of three H20 covers, I believe) – the tag line says all you need to know.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre has Tharg recap some of the achievements of the last century of progs (Rogue Trooper, Ace Trucking, Nemesis the Warlock, Portrait of a Mutant, Judge Death Lives and the Apocalypse War) and looks to the next hundred progs.…

2000ad and Tornado Prog 157: "Look out! It's Earth-side Eddie and the Anti-Matter Kids!" Martian Edition, not for sale on Earth

This Kevin O’Neill cover purports to be from the Martian edition of 2000AD so shows Earth as the enemy (though there’s nothing in the actual image to suggest which spaceship is from Earth and which from Mars).

In case there’s any doubt about who provided the cover art, Tharg’s Nerve Centre has an artist credit – something we haven’t had before, and I don’t think we’ll have again. Well, we…