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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…