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In our thrilling hundred and fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 334-337 of 2000AD, covering September and October of 1983. Join us as Sláine goes on a mission, Dredd starts the midnight shift, and Nemesis the Warlock and Strontium Dog return!

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I'm excited for this one! I love Sandman and Game of You is one of my favorite parts of it!

In our thrilling hundred and third episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with the 1984 2000AD Annual. This is the seventh 2000AD annual and we're seeing a great combination of new stories and classic thrills in these pages.

This episode Conrad is joined by Steve Green, the co-director of Search/Destroy, the Strontium Dog fan film, the cinematographer of Judge Minty, the Judge Dredd fan film, and visual effects artist for the recent Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre fan film!

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It was super fun talking to Steve about these thrills. We also talked about his movie making, but it was too much for one episode! I'll have that part of our conversation up next week as a special bonus episode.

Great stuff - as mentioned in my last comment - this is the era that got me into life-long devotion to the GG!

Nice! Hope you think we're doing it justice!

I figure if you guys can go from prog 1, I can probably manage to get caught up to present day from 1685.

I mean, our goal is to go from prog 1 to the present day, so I can understand how daunting it is!

In our thrilling hundred and second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 330-333 of 2000AD, covering August and September of 1983. Join us Skizz beams up, Sam Slade starts his last case, Dredd gets heavy, and a young man named Sláine arrives on our show!

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70. Ant Wars, with Fox Galassi
71. Shako, with Conrad Leiden

Woo! It's a Space Spinner 2000 back-to-back creature-feature!

The Complete Skizz is half price in the 2000 AD Shop right now...

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB611

...and I'm seriously tempted to buy even though it'll eventually turn up as part of the Hachette Ultimate Collection, as those particular progs were the ones I used to loan out to my RPG group as part of my Introduction to Dredd and they're subsequently in a pretty tatty state...

I was stoked that Skizz was half price, I bought the digital version to have a better picture of the color page from prog 329!

1983 sure was the year i was born in....yup

Haha, I must admit that i'm excited to actually get to years I have memories of!

There seems to be a preference for longer form stories on Dredd, especially from Fox which is interesting. (maybe less so on Robohunter).

I guess Dredd of that period in particular tends to pack a lot more in, so even the longer stories don't drag.

Also quite surprised that something that's heavily influenced by UK drama like Skizz stands the test of time and with an international audience - I guess some things are universal.

I'm split between the big epic stories and the super short ones, in terms of my faves. There's one coming up, "The Suspect" where there's a guy who has three jobs and Dredd finds him out, and it's a lot of fun! But way off on the horizon I see City of the Damned looming and I get very excited

Hey everyone, we're a couple days away from taping our 1983 year in review show, the Spinnies! I'd love to hear what you guys thought about 1983 in the Galaxy's Greatest, and if there's anything you'd like us to discuss on the show. Anyhow, get your golden tuxedos ready!

Happy to report I heard a lot of love for Spacespinner at this weekend's Lawgiver IV con - I talked to several people who were listening, and recommended it to a few who weren't.

Awesome! I really appreciate it! Next year I'm really hoping to get out and show the flag at at least one convention over there, but that is very much in the "wouldn't it be cool if..." stage right now

Die Hard on a space ship is Space Mutiny. They've stolen hours of effects footage from Battlestar Galactica and they're not afraid to go up to speeds of 3!

The Undercity as a D&D campaign setting, you say? Why not try The Rookie's Guide to the Undercity (wot I wrote).  It's out of print, but Amazon has a used copy in good condition for the bargain price of £10,202.51...

My "Die Hard in a [sci fi setting]" library is surprisingly small, though I think I have seen stuff for Space Mutiny! I'd probably get the used copy for $13 if it's all the same to you, though I'll also say that I've had problems running RPGs for intellectual properties that I love but other people aren't that familiar with. It happened with the Warhammer 40K rpg I tried to run, and I'm sure it would happen with a Dredd game

Thanks Conrad and Fox!

I was one of the runners up in the Robo Machines competition and it was a huge thrill to get a letter from Therg on 2000AD headed notepaper. My memory of the toy thing is that Robo Machines were on the market first but didn't have a big impact and were then pretty much forgotten once Transformers came out.

I think they came out at roughly the same time here in the states? But go-bots were definitely the store brand transformers. Though they DID get their own movie, where they fought lame robots that turned into rocks or something. I believe I saw it when it came out, but since that was 30 years ago I can't be trusted for details!

"Eureka!" is my other top Alan Moore one-off!

The brilliance of it is, that the idea being spread about is Alan Moore's ofted talked about belief in the idea of time as a Four Dimensional Solid, which if you investigate it, is not only a sound and very plausible explanation for how the Universe works, but also fits the idea that once you've heard it, you can't go back (I've certainly adopted it, so the strip did its job on me!) - "all time is simultaneous..." (if you could step out of it and observe it in its four dimensions, so we are living eternally in a heaven or hell that we make for ourselves here and now - scary or reassuring, depending on your p.o.v.!

Haha, the problems with the mysteries of the universe is that sometimes I'm not smart enough to understand the inital points! Maybe it's just the crew surrounding the narrator and forcing him to hear the idea at the end, but Eureka! always reminds of The Game episode of Star Trek TNG.

Congratulations on your Century! 

I have just read Skizz again, and (this might be the Brummie in me talking) I'm thinking this is the equal, if not the best thing Alan Moore ever did.  Comics perfection!

Also reread "The Time Machine", my favourite of all Alan Moore's shorts for Tharg - I feel like I shouldnt't like it - the message is a bit.... grim at best?  But I think it is just beautiful and sad and totally wrong for a kids comic, which is what makes it exactly right for 2000AD

Fox - set robo-tearducts to maximum capacity!

Skizz is so great! Also, while I prefer The Reversible Man a bit more, both it and The Time Machine take a very melacholy tone that I think is amazing!

In our thrilling hundred and first episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 325-329 of 2000AD, covering July and August of 1983. Join us as Skizz reaches its climax, Rogue Trooper fights the press, Sam Slade gets back on the case, and Dredd is a dang werewolf!

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Big round of applause for surviving that chaps - did I even hear a bit of a 'mouth sick' at one point?

Such a delight and the drunken fun is kinda like making it double sized with a hologram cover, just makes it that little bit more fun and special.

As I was constantly saying during the episode, I'm not gonna lie to you, I was having a rough time by the end. I'm glad everyone enjoyed this episode, I'm not sure we'll repeat this for episode 200

I just want to say that I love these "Two Nations Divided By A Common Language" moments about childhood snacks. In my experience sherbet is a kind of ice cream, usually fruit flavored (Orange, Boysenberry, and "Rainbow" were the big ones). We did have powdered sugar stuff, mostly famously Pixie Sticks, which were just colored and flavored sugar in paper straws, though there was also Fun Dip, which seems similar to British sherbet, which was colored sugar you ate using a stick made out of hardened sugar. The opened package of sherbet above is blowing my mind slightly.

In our thrilling one hundreth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 321-324 of 2000AD, covering June and July of 1983. Join us as Sam Slade goes full ghost, Skizz goes full caper, Dredd goes full werewolf, and we go full bore because it's the 100th episode!!! Conrad has had too much to drink in celebration, will he survive to the end of the episode!?

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Thanks to everyone here for your support as we reach this milestone! Here's to many hundreds more episodes!

I've got this list from the Titan book about action, but especially for artists it's kind of incomplete, like "Another Unidentified Spanish Artist" for Hookjaw, or "Various" for Dredger. And it credits Tom Tully for Look out for Lefty?