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In our thrilling hundred and seventy-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 543-546 of 2000AD, covering October 1987. This time Zenith does a montage, the Freaks are freaky, The Strontium Dogs start a Rammy, and Chopper returns, as do Nemesis and Toruqemada! Also, I’ve since learned that ERNIE is related to a UK lottery bond. A jok...

In our thrilling hundred seventy-first episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1988 2000AD Annual. This is the eleventh 2000AD annual and we’re seeing a great combination of new stories and classic thrills in these pages. The highlights of this year’s annual include the classic Ro-Busters story Hammerstein’s War Memories, vacationing with Torquemada, Judg...

In our thrilling hundred and seventieth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 539-542 of 2000AD, covering September and October 1987. This time we meet the Freaks, Judge Dredd has a rematch, Mean Team get what’s coming to them, the Universal Soldier endures, and Johnny Alpha deals with a sorry case! Thrills Covered: Zenith Universal Soldier Ta...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-ninth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 535-538 of 2000AD, covering August and September 1987. This time the Universal Soldier makes landfall, Mean Team is back in the pit, the Strontium Dog wedding is off, Dredd is heading down the bayou, and Zenith begins-with a bang! This episode we reach an amazing mi...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-eighth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 531-534 of 2000AD, covering July & August 1987. This time Orlock escapes, Rogue gets his hit, Bad Jack is immortal, Johnny Alpha aids a royal wedding, and the revolution begins, and ends, in Judge Dredd.  Thrills Covered: Anderson, Psi Division Mean Team J...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-seventh episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1988 Judge Dredd Annual.  This is the eighth Dredd Annual, and features a multi part story with full color art by John Higgins, a prose story by Neil Gaiman, and classic tales from the archive! This episode Conrad is joined by Eamonn Clarke of the Mega-City Book club po...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 527-530 of 2000AD, covering June and July 1987. This time Orlock is out, Dredd deals with a Fairly Hyperman, Bad Jack learns some very important things about himself, Rogue frees some slaves, and Ronald Reagan is heading home! Thrills Covered: Rogue Trooper Anderso...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 523-526 of 2000AD, covering May and June 1987. This time Anderson and Hershey fight the wolf, Dredd fights rats and raggedy men, Rogue fights for his life, Torquemada fights the past, and Mean Team fights a bunch of weirdos. Also DR & Quinch are back to give ad...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 519-522 of 2000AD, covering April and May 1987 . This time Judges do ads, the Wolf comes to Mega-City One, Torquemada gets married, and Reagan drops the soap! Bad Company Strontium Dog Judge Dredd Sláine The Dead Anderson, Psi Division Rogue Trooper Torquemada the...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-third episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1987 Sci-Fi Special of 2000AD. This Special has some great stories featuring Judge Dredd, some classic Strontium Dog action, and a Nemesis the Warlock photo comic! This episode Conrad is joined by Alex of the Heroes of 2000AD blog! It’s a great resource for information on imp...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 515-518 of 2000AD, covering March and April 1987 . This time Johnny Alpha finds love on the slaughterfield, Bad Company gets in a final battle, Dredd meets the Ripper, Fludd builds an army, and Sláine gets hitched! Bad Company Strontium Dog Judge Dredd The Dead Slá...

In our thrilling hundred and sixty-first episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 511-514 of 2000AD, covering February and March 1987 . This time Johnny and Red hit the rapids, Fludd learns to fight, Bad Company gets drunk, and Edgar Allen Poe-body’s Nerfect in Judge Dredd! Thrills Covered: Bad Company Strontium Dog Judge Dredd The Dead Future Sh...

In our thrilling hundred and sixtieth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 507-510 of 2000AD, covering January and February 1987 . This time Ulysses Sweet is on the case, Danny Franks gets a new hat, the taxidermist is on the job, a king is slain, and the President Reagan is missing! Note: Conrad identifies the artist for the cover of Prog 50...

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-ninth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 503-506 of 2000AD, covering January of 1987. This episode Dredd handles Varks, DJs, and novelists, Nemesis splits the team and Thoth is doing time crimes, Johnny Alpha makes a new friend, Sláine talks old times, and our Bad Company friend Malcolm is having a bad day...

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-eighth episode Fox and Conrad take a break from reviewing weekly progs to reminisce on the whole of 2000 AD comics for the year 1986. It’s a chance to reflect, review, and give out awards! Welcome to the 1986 Spinnies! At the end of every chronological year in our prog timeline we give out awards to the storylines and thrills we liked best over the last year. Sta...

In our action-packed fourteenth episode Conrad continues the journey through the pages of the infamous classic UK comic with the 1977 Action Annual! This time we’ll hang out with deadly wildlife, fight in World War 2 AND against Napoleon, and check out prequels to several top Action stories! This episode Conrad is joined by his buddy Duncan! Live it up! Stories Covered: Wild Ones Run, Rampton, Run...

In our action-packed thirteenth episode Conrad continues the journey through the pages of the infamous classic UK comic with the Action Summer Special! This time we learn the origins of Hookjaw and Blackjack, Dredger goes to the roof, and you’d better stop looking at rocks and start swimming! This episode Conrad is joined by Space Spinner 2000 co-host Fox! Worlds are colliding! Stories Cover...

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-seventh episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 499-502 of 2000AD, covering December of 1986. This episode we revisit Tharg’s head, Sláine ends one quest and starts another, Dredd is in the Christmas mood, Torquemurder returns, and grab your boots turnip head, ‘cause you’re in Bad Company now! Also! If yo...

In our action-packed twelfth episode Conrad continues the journey through the pages of the infamous classic UK comic with issues 34-36 of Action! This time Dredger is under the sea, Hookjaw is in the Channel, the Kids are on fire, and it’s snowing on the Russian front! This episode Conrad is joined by friend of the show Zane! Check out his Instagram profiles at: @zane_and_cats and @ganbare_animesa...

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-sixth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 495-498 of 2000AD, covering November of 1986. This episode Sláine sees the stars, Rogue Trooper gets a job offer, Dredd meets a god called Jose…or possibly Steve, Swifty heads home, Johnny Alpha heads to a war zone, and Ace Trucking is ten-ten never again! Als...

In our action-packed eleventh episode Conrad continues the journey through the pages of the infamous classic UK comic with issues 31-33 of Action! This time the Grudge War concludes, the probationer gets out, kids rule, OK? And Rick Mason gets ahead of Hookjaw, if you know what I mean! This episode Conrad is joined by Eamonn Clarke of the Mega-City Book club podcast! Every other week Eamonn and a...

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-fifth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 491-494 of 2000AD, covering October and November of 1986. This episode the Monsoon comes to Metalzoic, Swifty gets a job, Johnny Alpha dispenses frontier justice, Judge Dredd deals with giant ladies, body swappers, and phantoms, and Sláine is back to grind some ques...

In our action-packed tenth episode Conrad continues the journey through the pages of the infamous classic UK comic with issues 27-30 of Action! This time Blackjack gets his man, Death Game gets recruiting, both Hellman AND Hookjaw get blown up, and Dredger gets dead, but only for a bit! This episode Conrad is joined by David Ronayne of the Beyond the Soda and Where Eagles Dare podcast! Where Eagle...

In our thrilling hundred and fifty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 487-490 of 2000AD, covering September and October of 1986. This episode Judge Dredd deals with crime in Atlantis, The Wheeldebeasts attack in Metalzoic, Nemesis meets the Monads, and Strontium Dog’s path of RAGE reaches its conclusion! Thrills Covered: Judge...

In our action-packed ninth episode Conrad continues the journey through the pages of the infamous classic UK comic with issues 25-27 of Action! This time Dredger deals with American politics, Hookjaw is on TV, Taggart deals with Rico, and Hellman is fighting on the Eastern Front…watch out for vampires! This episode Conrad is joined by Peter Adamson of the Beyond the Soda and Where Eagles Dar...