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Ah, aboard the last launch to transfer off the HMS Hood before it was destroyed was a young Navy intelligence officer, Lieutenant Jon Pertwee, who later went on to present a prototype (and even more annoying) version of the Green Gross Code...

https://youtu.be/_r1UiNZ3G4Y

Stop pavement look is near keep, that's easy to remember...

Holy crap, all of that is amazing!

According to Barney it was a Gosnell/Grant team up for the first prog, then just Grant for the remainder. I credited it as both of them for the first two episodes we covered Blackhawk but have stopped in more recent ones.

You can kind of see the team-up in the writer's name, ALan+KelVIN=Alvin, GrANT+GOsnell=Guant

I'm kind of arbitrarily deciding that once BH loses his soul it's all Grant

Basically one more episode! Once Judge Death shows up you've gone from "Early 2000AD" to "Golden Age 2000 AD"

In our thrilling forty-third episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 141-145 of 2000 AD, covering December of 1979. Join us Christmas in June (check out the festive airhorn!), as Tharg punches out Santa, Barney the computer grants wishes, and the Stainless Steel Rat comes into his own!

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In our thrilling forty-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 137-140 of 2000 AD, covering November of 1979. Join us for the heart warming story of Mad George, the terrifying Night of the Bloodbeast, and for Blackhawk losing his soul! Also we continue our constant march towards our own Disaster 1990!

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In our thrilling forty-first episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 133-136 of 2000 AD, covering October of 1979. We only need six words to describe this episode: Incredibly Armed, Incredibly Dangerous, Incredibly Awesome.

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I've been reading The Mighty One and it's got me very excited for the first Judge Dredd Annual, MacManus talks about the creation of that pretty extensively. We were just starting out during the 40th, only on episode 18 or so. Luckily at our current pace we should be finishing up in time for the 50th anniversary!

Got as far as episode 22, which has been vaped from Stitcher????

Whoa weird, sorry about that! I think I see why episode 22 is missing but I'm not sure how to get it back on Stitcher In the meantime, you can download the file directly from the site and you should be able to play it in the Stitcher app as a work around. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for bringing this to my attention!

In our thrilling fortieth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest comic with the 1980 2000 AD Annual (Annuals are dated by the following year). This episode we discuss the final Dan Dare story, the strange fate of Mega City 4, and we learn our 2000 AD IQ! We're 40 episodes in, and we hope that like us, Tharg is a big part of your life!

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I'd argue that the 1980 Annual has it's moments, but it's still pretty rough. Looking ahead the 81 Annual looks pretty fun, though it still has older legacy comics and a lot of short stories and other prose. To me the 82 annual is where things really pick up, when they're allowed to start reprinting launch 2000AD stories and stuff. Nothing against Phantom Patrol or Guinea Pig, but the art and writing style of these older stories really stand in stark relief to even the stuff in the annual, let alone what's going into the Progs at this point.

In our thrilling thirty-ninth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 128-132 of 2000 AD, covering September of 1979. Join us as the ABC Warriors head to Mars, SPREAD THE WORD! Also we discuss the proper terminology for breaking into a ship, sing along with Ursa, and kill a ton of geese with Bill Savage!

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We just covered the holiday party on our podcast! It's really weird piece of inside baseball imo. It's especially odd because it seems to be so old, Dredd being on Luna and the Starlord gang seems to put it as x-mas '77, but it was in the 1980 Dan Dare annual (released in September 79), and the labor dispute it seems to be satirizing was at the end of '78 (where there was only one Prog released in the whole month).

I think there are only two or three Digby appearances in the progs, he has a cameo in a Captain Klep page, and then shows up during the final Dan Dare story (Servant of Evil) when things come up relating to Dan's lost memories. Also in the 1979 Dan Dare Annual (released in '78) there's a story linking classic Dan Dare to 2000AD Dan Dare, which involves Digby being injured by the Mekon.

Definitely! I'm about halfway through the Mighty One now (though the effects of me reading it won't show up on the show for a while, we record pretty far ahead.) And while I don't recall him talking about this this story specifically, his book is really valuable. There's a long section about planning the first Judge Dredd annual that I'm very excited to bring to the podcast. I've already got Mills's book queued up for afterwards!

I got Power by Gesture, which is more of a way to use a power instead of a power itself
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Via_Gesture

So I clicked again, and got DNA Absorption! Nice!
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/DNA_Absorption

In our thrilling thirty-eighth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with the Dan Dare Annual 1980. Join us for comics from deep in the Fleetway Vault, and a holiday themed robot brawl that seems to be mostly about late 70s labor relations! Also we continue to out ourselves as dumb Americans by our dislike of reading words not accompanied by pictures!

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