how to do a prog slog

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2000AD Prog 188: "AAAAAAAAHHH!" The tide of terror that swept the Galaxy continues in... Return to Armageddon

You can be ugly, but it'll cost ya!

Plus, the music industry takes notice of 2000AD.

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2000AD Prog 189: "Run, judgey-boy... the Demolition Derby's begun!"

Here comes eight-eyes!

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2000AD Prog 190: "Gonna hang ya Alpha... Hang ya HIGH!"

I see robots.  I see big robots.

I also see a colour centrespread map!

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2000AD Prog 191: "Pop one rivet and you're dead, creep!" "Hooway! Judge Dwedd!"

Walter gets droidnapped - not for the first time...

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2000AD Prog 192: "Splundig vur ho, ho, ho!"

Betelgeusian christmas greetings are rather similar to Polish ones.

Project X looms - but I can't remember what it is, if it actually does come to anything - this is the year that the Judge Dredd Boardgame* was published, and that Dredd started in the Daily Star**.

*As seen on Labyrinth
**Though that was dumped on editorial by management at the last minute, so it can't be that.

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2000AD Prog 193: Judge Dredd – Voted Britain's top comic character!

Judge Dredd presents a mystery antagonist - who is The Fink?  (yes, I know we all know now).

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2000AD Prog 194: 1981 is the Year of the Alien!

The history of street football.  Turns out that the Fink is the [spoiler]fifth member of the Angel Gang[/spoiler].

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2000AD Prog 195: Return to Armageddon

It's all about nudity and eating (of the cannibalistic variety) in both Strontium Dog and Meltdown Man.

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2000AD Prog 196: Superbad!! The Angel Gang in a zarjaz pin-up this prog! "Alien attack! Inside the hatch – fast!"

One for the continuity buffs - a poster of the Angel Gang, with dates of birth!

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2000AD Prog 197: Catch Captain Skank... or Mega-City One dies!

Dan Dare's back!  Or news of the TV series is...

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2000AD Prog 198: "By the right... SWARM!" Revenge of the Thrill-Suckers!

We're in the age of Tharg stories (and I'd maintain good Tharg stories).

[Fungus]

Yeah the Tharg stories worked just fine at the time, this one and others tickled a young Squaxx brain - including mine. We didn't even get the in-jokes... good example of tales never intended to be analysed and released in multiple formats, ad nauseum .......  🤔

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2000AD Prog 199: "Time to die, matey! Zzzz!"

Bolland puts in a Skank-y cover.

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2000AD Prog 200 Let the reading galaxy celebrate! "I, Tharg, bring you future-worlds!"

Prog 200 - not a jumping-on prog, with mostly continuing stories, except for one.  The tale of Kreelmans Nelson Bunker and John.

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2000AD Prog 201: "Get down! Assassination run!"

Birth of a mutant!