Tragic news greeted this batch of progs when one of the greatest artists in 2000AD history, Carlos Ezquerra, died on October 1, 2018. His work went all the way back to the very beginning as the designer of Judge Dredd. Once he started drawing regular strips, not a year went...

The cover price migrated up from £5.60 to £5.99, but the format during this run was as stable as could be with four main story slots (one for Dredd, two or three from Dredd’s world and sometimes one independent) and a smattering of articles that included writer/artist interviews, movie and...

I heard a noise close by. An enemy!? I jumped up. It was only my subconscious. Maybe it was the anesthetic, but my head was throbbing. My limbs, which still had no strength, were limp. The surroundings were dim. There was a bright light in the center of the room....

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The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic reached its 40th anniversary in this stretch, commemorated by a special birthday issue that brought back some very early strips and did a lot of 4th-wall breaking. Tharg’s 3rillers was an expanded version of the one-and-done Future Shocks that often served as a launch pad for...

Over this 3-year stretch, the Megazine’s cover price went from £5.49 to £5.60 and the features held steady with four regular strips accompanied by creator interviews, various articles, and book/comic/movie reviews. Each issue was bundled with a separate 64-page reprint of 2000AD or Megazine content; usually collected comics, but also...

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Yep, Yamato was supposed to be in the background on this cover. When it came to the finished version, I clean forgot to add it. D’OH! Continue to part 4 Back to main article

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“There might still be survivors,” Dale said cautiously. “Yeah.” I opened the door on the left side of the bridge with my gun at the ready. At that moment, I heard a woman scream, “AAAAH!” It looked like a cabin. There were five filthy chairs and a table with one...

As the cover price rose from £2.45 to £2.55, the hits kept on coming. The last annual Christmas issue numbered for the upcoming year was Prog 2015; after this, these annual issues would maintain regular numbering since it wouldn’t be much longer before an actual prog 2015 (et al) arrived....

This stretch included two nearly-synchronous landmarks; issue 300 and the 20th anniversary issue (302) with a dream team cover collaboration by two of the best 2000AD artists of the 80s: Glenn Fabry and Simon Bisley. There was another facelift with issue 275, where the price jumped from £2.99 to £4.99,...

It was six months after the hundred-year war ended that I began to drive Berserga and chase after the Black A.T. The Hundred Years’ War — that’s right, the war that divided the Astragius galaxy into two star systems, Gilgameth and Balarant. For about a hundred years, all the people...