Month: November 2017

In our thrilling seventy-fifth episode Fox and Conrad take a break from reviewing weekly progs to reminisce on the whole of 2000 AD comics for the year 1981. It’s a chance to reflect, review, and give out awards! Welcome to the 1981 Spinnies! At the end of every chronological year in our prog timeline we’ll give out awards to the storylines and thrills we liked best over the last year. Stay tuned after this awards for big news for all listeners!

Award Categories:

• Best Art
• Best Story
• Best Overall Thrill
• Best Month
• Best Year

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Song: Tainted Love by Soft Cell

11.86

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In our thrilling seventy-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 241-244  of 2000 AD, covering December of 1981. Join us as Matt Tallon gets revenge, Ace Trucking gets jacked, Nemesis gets stabbed, Rogue Trooper gets laid out, and Judge Dredd gets his man, but at what cost!?

Thrills Covered:

• Ace Trucking Co.
• Mean Arena
• Future Shocks
• Judge Dredd
• Rogue Trooper
• Nemesis the Warlock
• Tharg the Mighty

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Song: Don’t You Want Me by Human League

11.86

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In our thrilling seventy-third episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1982 2000 AD Annual (Annuals are dated by the following year). We’ve been pretty tough on annuals over the years, and this one has some pretty rough sections, but this one is improved greatly by the replacement of legacy comics with awesome classic 2000AD thrills. Besides some interesting new stories, it’s a cool chance to hang out with our old friends from Flesh and MACH One!

Thrills Covered:

• Tharg the Mighty
• Secrets of the Command Module, Blackhawk
• The Pirate and the Polydroid
• The Incredible World of TV Games
• Ro-Busters
• MACH One
• Tharg’s Mighty Puzzle Pieces, Fact File, Dash Decent, the Preying Mantis, 2000AD’s Amazing Readers
• Judge Dredd
• Tharg’s Mighty 2000AD Crossword, How to Draw Judge Dredd
• Flesh
• Earthlet’s Art Gallery, Alan Grant Interview
• The Last of the First Ones
• Fact Files, The Volunteer, Future Sports
• Tharg Gets…The Call
• Fact File, Meet the Droids
• Strontium Dog
• Could You Replace Might Tharg?, Prog Power, Answers

The Annual on Mega City Book Club: http://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2016/12/mega-city-book-club-22-1982-annual.html

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Song: Kids in America by Kim Wilde

11.67

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In our thrilling seventy-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 237-240  of 2000 AD, covering November of 1981. Join us as Nemesis the Warlock and Torquemada have a zombie showdown, Rogue Trooper goes topside, Ace Trucking goes down a black hole, Mean Arena goes to Edinburgh, and Mega-City One goes to hell as Block Mania reaches a fever pitch!

Thrills Covered:

• Rogue Trooper
• Abelard Snazz
• Judge Dredd
• Future Shocks
• The Mean Arena
• Nemesis the Warlock
• Ace Trucking Co.

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Song: Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie

11.67

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In our thrilling sixty-ninth (nice) episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1981 Sci-Fi Special of 2000 AD. This Special contains some excellent Judge Dredd and Nemesis the Warlock stories, and a pair of classic One-Eyed Jack stories that caused a fair amount of debate among the the hosts.

Thrills Covered:

• Judge Dredd
• Desert Asteroid Authors, Superman II
• Southern Comfort
• Night-Land
• Tharg the Mighty in ALIEN!
• One-Eyed Jack
• Diary of an Alien Editor, Ro-Jaws Technicolour Book Review, Tharg’s Mighty Puzzle Pages
• Future Shocks
• Nemesis the Warlock

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Song: Vienna by Ultravox

11.24

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