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Collection 28 – The Stainless Steel Rat

It’s Crime Time! Also it’s the twenty-eighth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

The Stainless Steel Rat! I’m not sure how Tharg got the idea to adapt some short, fun, sci fi novels into comics, but it very much works! The Stainless Steel Rat is a story of crime and adventure in the far future, starring the smoothest criminal of them all, James Bolivar diGriz. He always has an answer to everything, at least until he gets drafted into the Special Corps and starts having to take down criminals instead of doing crimes himself (kinda, he does do plenty of crimes while taking out criminals). Add in a lovely wife and eventually teenaged sons, plus a dash of time travel and/or political intrigue and you’ve got a perfect stew of thrill power! I read the books when I was a kid, though I only have a slight memory of them. These days I can’t think of reading without imagining diGriz as Ezquerra’s James Coburn look-alike!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN378

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Song: Our Man Flint by Jerry Goldsmith

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ep 198 – Progs 616-620

In our thrilling hundred and ninety-eighth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 616-620 of 2000AD, covering March & April of 1989. This episode Dredd fights a little blue man, Johnny Alpha fights a Feral mutant, Judges Anderson and Corey fight for psychic justice, and Medivac 318 isn’t fighting anyone, they’re here to help! We’re getting rowdy this episode!

Thrills Covered:

Anderson, Psi Division
Night Zero
Swifty’s Return
Judge Dredd
Strontium Dog
Tales from the Doghouse
Zippy Couriers
Medivac 318
The Daily Dredds
Future Shocks

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Song: Too Many Broken Hearts by Jason Donovan

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Collection 27 – Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 5

Drokk it! It’s the twenty-seventh in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

We’re back in Mega-City One for a massive, nearly three hour episode! Case Files Five covers over a year of Dredd stories and is truly massive, covering everything from organized crime rackets to violent camping trips. Everything from global thermonuclear war to trans-dimensional avatars of death! If you want it, Case Files 5 has it, and right now you can get a digital version free at the Rebellion webstore (see link below), or buy it at your preferred bookseller!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN281

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Song: Spirits of the Future by roughNX (find them at https://www.roughnx.com)

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ep 197 – 1989 Sc-Fi Special

In our thrilling hundred and ninety-seventh episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1989 Sci-Fi Special of 2000AD. This Special is for the fellows, with all the stories featuring female protagonists!

This episode Conrad is joined by the blithesome Pete Wells! A legend in the 2000AD fan community, you can find his work at:

https://sensorystoriespodcast.com/ and http://2000adcovers.blogspot.com/

Thrills Covered:

Moon Runners
Judge Corey
The Amazing Maze Dumoir
Tyranny Rex
Secrets of the Command Module
Zippy Couriers
Crime Blitz!

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Song: Pump Up the Jam Nothing by Technotronic featuring Felly

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Collection 26 – Sláine: Warrior’s Dawn

Kiss my axe! It’s the twenty-sixth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

More than most thrills, Slaine is a story with distinctive eras, easily identified by their artists. This collection has most of the first era, with work by series creator Angela Kincaid (Angela Mills at the time), along with McMahon and Belardinelli. AFter this we’ll be in the time killers era with Glenn Fabry, David Pugh, and Mark Farmer, and we’re soon to enter the Simon Bisley era on the podcast. This early era is interesting because of how low to the ground it is. It’s got a very Conan feel to it, just a barbarian and his sidekick wandering the land, looking for trouble, and I think it can be interesting to compare this callow youth with the more grown up Sláine that we’ll see in the Horned God. I hope you enjoy these early Sláine stories, and my terrible pronunciation of Celtic names!

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ep 196 – Progs 612-615

In our thrilling hundred and ninety-sixth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 612 to 615 of 2000AD, covering February of 1989. This episode Tanner heads to the roof, Judge Anderson goes clubbing, Swifty returns and crashes TWO parties, Strontium Dog peeks in, and we’ll see the revenge of both a spider-woman and a little blue man!

Thrills Covered:

Anderson, Psi Division
Tales from the Doghouse
Judge Dredd
Night Zero
Shok
Zippy Couriers
Swifty’s Return
Strontium Dog
Future Shocks

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Song: Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart by Marc Almond with Gene Pitney

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Collection 25 – Strontium Dog: Outlaw

Yer a dead dog Alpha! It’s the twenty-fifth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

Outlaw is the first real contemporary, full powered Strontium Dog epic. While Journey to hell features a Johnny, Wulf, and Gronk out of their element and without many time weapons, and Portrait of a mutant is about young Johnny, this is our hero at the height of his powers. It also brings in characters from both those previous epics and from smaller stories we’ve seen along the way, like Middenface McNulty and the Stix brothers, to say nothing of the ultimate evil, which I’ll not spoil at this point. It’s time to get the band back together and fight once more for mutant kind! Keep an eye out for my favorite, the Torso from Newcastle, as we head out with Strontium Dog: Outlaw!

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ep 195 – Progs 608-611

In our thrilling hundred and ninety-fifth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 608-611 of 2000AD, covering December of 1988. This episode Nemesis is heading out, Tanner is on the case, Judge Anderson is making contact, Hap Hazzard is filling space, Zippy Couriers arrive in style, and Judge Dredd is headed to Hondo for robot espionage!

Thrills Covered:

Anderson, Psi Division
Daily Dredds
Judge Dredd
Night Zero
Nemesis the Warlock
Hap Hazard
Zippy Couriers
Walter the Wobot
Future Shocks

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Song: Especially for You by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan

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Collection 24 – Rogue Trooper Volume 1 Part 3

Let’s Knife! It’s the twenty-fourth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

Freshen up your stereotypes, because we’re headed for Fort Nuero! It’s probably my favorite Rogue Trooper story, and finds the Genetic Infantrymen making his way through an isolated fortress on the edge of Nu-Earth where all of the inhabitants have gone completely mad! It’s jokes I only sort of get and cool rover droids against an army of crafty Norts, and oh man it’s a lot of fun. After that we’ll meet a high ranking figure from Rogue’s past, and join professor of dark shocks Alan Moore for meditations on the nature of conflict. It should be a great time!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/graphic-novels/rogue-trooper/XB366

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Songs: Rogue Trooper Sountrack Theme 1a from the Rogue Trooper video game, and Dreamweaver by Gary Wright

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ep 193 – 1988 Winter Special

In our thrilling hundred and ninety-third episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1988 Winter Special of 2000AD. This Special has some great stories featuring Zenith, Luke Kirby, classic Rogue Trooper, and an Alan Grant Power Hour featuring Judge Dredd, Johnny Alpha, and Judge Anderson!

This episode Conrad is joined by friend of the show Leigh Shepherd! Check out some of his work in the 2000AD fanzines Zarjaz and Dogbreath at Future Quake Press!

Conrad mentions a couple crowd-funding campaigns this episode. Please follow the respective links to get more information:

Sadly this episode has some audio distortion towards the end. It’s not SUPER bad, but is there. We should be able to prevent this going forward. Sorry for this.

Thrills Covered:

Zenith
Rogue Trooper
Company Records
A Winter’s Tale
Comics Can Be Crucial, Sláine, True Dredd, Was Johnny Rotten an Astronaut?
Judge Dredd
Strontium Dog
Judge Anderson

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Song: One Moment in Time by Whitney Houston

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