ep 205 – Progs 641-644

In our thrilling two hundred and fifth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 641-644 of 2000AD, covering August and September of 1989. This episode Judge Anderson and Judge Dredd deal with old enemies, it’s a psychic duel in Moon Runners, the Survivor is on the run, and Fervent & Love return to confuse us all!

Also, if you’re in the market for a fine anthology comic book, with many stories written and drawn by some of your old 2000AD favorites, you should definitely check out friends of the show The 77!

Thrills Covered:

  • Anderson, Psi Division
  • Moon Runners
  • Zippy Couriers
  • Judge Dredd
  • Survivor
  • Strontium Dog
  • Fervent & Lobe
  • Future Shocks

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Song: Swing the Mood by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

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ep 204 – Progs 637-640

In our thrilling two hundred and fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 637-640 of 2000AD, covering July & August of 1989. This episode we’re dealing with the whole animal kingdom from ants and spiders to alien bugs, from man-brained panthers to Block-Ness monsters, from shettledogs to whatever the heck Feral is! Also Conrad thinks this episode is coming out a week later than it is! Freak out!

  • Anderson, Psi Division
  • Medivac 318
  • Judge Dredd
  • Tales from the Doghouse
  • Strontium Dog
  • Survivor
  • Future Shocks

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Song: You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You by Sonia

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ep 203 – Progs 633-636

In our thrilling two hundred and third episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 633-636 of 2000AD, covering June and July of 1989. This episode we’ve got a changing of the guard, as Sláine and Zenith begin their quests, Anderson meets a Triad, Beyond Zero goes to the mall, Medivac 318 gets psychic, and Strontium Dog returns!

Thrills Covered:

  • Judge Dredd
  • Zenith
  • Sláine
  • Beyond Zero
  • Rogue Trooper
  • Medivac 318
  • Anderson, Psi Division
  • Tales from the Dog House
  • Strontium Dog
  • Future Shocks

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Song: Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) by Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler

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ep 202 – Progs 629-632

In our thrilling two hundred and second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 629-632 of 2000AD, covering June of 1989. This episode Dredd has a near death experience, Sláine meets the goddess, Zenith meets the heroes, Rogue has some rough times, We head out to say hi in Beyond Zero, and PJ Maybe begins his confessions! This is another episode where Conrad and Fox are all over each other, don’t worry we’ve worked it all out!

Thrills Covered:

  • Judge Dredd
  • Zenith
  • Sláine
  • Rogue Trooper
  • Beyond Zero
  • Future Shocks

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Song: Sealed With a Kiss by Jason Donovon

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ep 201 – Progs 625-628

In our thrilling two hundred and first episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 625-628 of 2000AD, covering May of 1989. This episode we remain in filler country even as two huge stories begin, Zenith Phase Three and Sláine the Horned God! I hope you like episodes where Conrad and Fox are all over each other!

Thrills Covered:

  • Rogue Trooper
  • Tales from the Doghouse
  • Judge Dredd
  • Sláine
  • Zenith
  • Future Shocks

We reference a couple a articles related to Zenith this episode: International Hero has a breakdown of who these different characters are references too, and Infinite Frontier has some interesting insight into the background of Zenith Phase III.

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Song: Eternal Flame by The Bangles

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ep 200 – Progs 621-624

In our thrilling TWO HUNDREDTH episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 621-624 of 2000AD, covering April of 1989. This episode Dredd is heading down south for justice, Anderson is in a psychic showdown, Medivac 318 comes down hard, and Rogue Trooper gets held up on his way to Cinnabar!

Thrills Covered:

  • Anderson, Psi Division
  • Medivac 318
  • Judge Dredd
  • Strontium Dog
  • Daily Dredds
  • Zippy Couriers
  • Tales from the Doghouse
  • Rogue Trooper
  • Future Shocks

In honor of our 200th, check out a breakdown of our top and bottom thrills here, or enjoy this pie chart!

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Song: Like a Prayer by Madonna

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Collection 29 – Harry 20 On The High Rock

It’s Crime Time AGAIN! Also it’s the twenty-ninth 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.

Stop the World, I wanna get on! Harry 20 comes right at the dawn of what we here at Space Spinner chart as the golden age of 2000, roughly from 1982 to 1986. It’s a story of a man unjustly sent to space prison, the people he meets there, and his attempts to escape. It’s a decent sized tale at 21 progs, but is often one Fox and I refer to as an example of a great one-off thrill. Something that shows up, has a story to tell, and then leaves, without trying to become a regular feature or set up a sequel or anything like that. Some of that might be due to the famously difficult time the notorious GFD had with 2000AD editors, but I always have a place in my heart for this kind of thing. Plus to my mind it has one of the greatest twists in 2000AD history, and I say this as the podcast enters 1989 and 90, which are a very twisty era for 2000AD indeed!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/graphic-novels/more-titles/GRN393

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Song: Theme Song for Oz, Theme Song for The Great Escape

ep 199 – 1989 Judge Dredd Mega-Special

In our thrilling hundred and ninety-ninth episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1989 Judge Dredd Mega-Special. It’s the second Judge Dredd Mega-Special, with all new stories by newer Dredd artists and a lot of background information about Dredd and his world.

This episode Conrad is joined by Eli, indie comic maker and future host of our Judge Dredd Megazine spin-off Big Meg One! Look for more info on Big Meg Meg over the coming months, and check out Eli’s comics as Slim Stories on Facebook and on Webtoons.com!

Thrills Covered:

  • A Night at the Basho
  • An Examination of the Mega-City One Judge System
  • Birdman
  • Judge Hershey
  • Democratic Bulletin
  • Son of Ratty’s Revenge
  • The Special Judicial Squad

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Song: So Alive by Love and Rockets

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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

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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