Episodes

In our thrilling forty-seventh episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 154-158 of 2000 AD, covering March of 1980. Join us as we head out with Judge Dredd as he begins his quest to find the Judge Child, the there is political intrigue with the Robo-Hunter, and the hosts once again side with monsters against humanity at large in Fiends of the Eastern Front! Thrills Covered: Robo-Hunter Judge Dredd Fiends of the Eastern Front Captain Klep ...

In our thrilling forty-sixth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 150-153 of 2000 AD, covering February of 1980. Join us as we travel to the future to fight robots and aliens, to the past to fight alongside vampires and hang out with dinosaurs, fight the evil Judge Death, and DRINK THE BLOOD OF SATANUS! Also Conrad quotes classic poetry, or at least a version of classic poetry as performed on a popular 1990s sitcom. Also I forgot to mentio...

In our thrilling forty-fifth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 146-149 of 2000 AD, covering January of 1980. It’s a huge Judge Dredd month, as Judge Minty leaves Mega City One just as Judge Death arrives! Also Conrad tries to explain what Top of the Pops is, and fails miserably! Check out the Judge Minty Fan Film! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd The V.C.s The Stainless Steel Rat Captain Klep Blackhawk Ro-Jaws’ Robo-Tales TimeQuake ...

In our thrilling forty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad take a break from reviewing weekly progs to reminisce on the whole of 2000 AD comics for the year 1979. It’s a chance to reflect, review, and give out awards! Welcome to the 1979 Spinnies! At the end of every chronological year in our prog timeline we’ll give out awards to the storylines and thrills we liked best over the last year. Award Categories: Best Art Best Story Best Overall Thrill Best Month Best Year Contact the show at spaces...

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! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd The V.C.s The Stainless Steel Rat Captain Klep The Mind of Wolfie Smith Blackhawk Ro-Jaws – The Inside Story Tharg’s Chris...

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! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Blackhawk ABC Warriors Captain Klep The Mind of Wolfie Smith Disaster 1990 The V.C.s The Stainless ...

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. Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Blackhawk ABC Warriors Captain Klep The Mind of Wolfie Smith Future Shocks Disaster 1990 Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: One Day at a Time by Lena Martell 6.68

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! Thrills Covered: Benny’s Tale Ro-Busters Guinea Pig Phantom Patrol Dan Dare The Man Who Save the World Going Straight ...

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! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Blackhawk ABC Warriors The Mind of Wolfie Smith Disaster 1990 Captain Klep A Day in the Life of Mighty T...

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! Dan Dare UFO Agent Programmed to Destroy 3000AD: The Traveller 3001: A Space Poem Rick Random J...

In our thrilling thirty-seventh episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 124-127 of 2000 AD, covering August of 1979. Join us as the ABC Warriors recruit more team members, a mutant army invades Mega-City 1 and both Project Overkill and 2000 AD veteran Dan Dare complete their journeys. Also 2000 AD merges with Tornado magazine, bringing with it new thrills Blackhawk, The Mind of Wolfie Smith, and Captain Klep! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Di...

In our thrilling thirty-sixth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 120-123 of 2000 AD, covering July of 1979. Join us as we get underway with ABC Warriors and Disaster 1990 and we near the finale of Dan Dare Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Disaster 1990 ABC Warriors Project Overkill Dan Dare Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Also, apologies in advance for the audio quality of this episode, some settings were messed up while...

In our thrilling thirty-fifth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the 1979 Sci-Fi Special of 2000 AD. OMG there are so many thrills this episode! Also Fox gets graded on several quizzes and is then manipulated into a terrible joke by Conrad. Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd You Are A Judge! Future Shocks – First Encounter Meteor Dan Dare Future Shocks – The Last Jungle In the World The Kids from Kosma Mek Wars and Tharg’s Cosmic Puzzle Ro-...

In our thrilling thirty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 115-119 of 2000 AD, covering June of 1979. Join us as we conclude the amazing highs of Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters and the terrifying lows of Rick Random. Also Disaster 1990, Project Overkill, and ABC Warriors begin. At nine separate thrills, it’s our most diverse non-Special or Annual episode ever! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Rick Random Strontium Dog Dan Dare Ro-B...

In our thrilling thirty-third episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 111-114 of 2000 AD, covering May of 1979. Join us as Conrad explains his theory of how the current Dan Dare storyline is the primary influence for every Bioware video game ever made. It’s shockingly plausible! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Robo-Hunter Rick Random Strontium Dog Dan Dare Ro-Busters Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: Sunday Girl by Blon...

In our thrilling thirty-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 107-110 of 2000 AD, covering April of 1979. Join us as Judge Cal is defeated, the Strontium Dogs go for a swim in Hades, and Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein learn that there’s gold in them thar robots! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Robo-Hunter Strontium Dog Future Shocks Dan Dare Ro-Busters Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel 5....

In our thrilling thirty-first episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 102-106 of 2000 AD, covering March of 1979. Join us Judge Dredd enlists Fergee, the king of the Big Smelly against Cal, The Ro-Busters being their Fall and Rise, and Strontium Dog goes to the afterlife! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Robo-Hunter Dan Dare Future Shocks Ro-Busters Strontium Dog Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: I Will Survive by Gloria...

In our thrilling thirtieth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 98-101 of 2000 AD, covering February of 1979. Join us as Dan Dare and Robo Hunter return to the podcast, as Angel flies away and Flesh travels to the future! BIG JOBS! BIG JOBS! BIG JOBS! BIG JOBS! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Angel Future Shocks Flesh Ro-Busters Robo Hunter Dan Dare Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: Heart of Glass by Blondie 4.98

In our thrilling twenty-ninth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 94-97 of 2000 AD, covering January of 1979. Join us as the Klegs attack and we take to the sky with Angel! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Ro-Busters Flesh Future Shocks Strontium Dog Angel Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: YMCA by The Village People 4.78

In our thrilling twenty-eighth episode Fox and Conrad take a break from reviewing weekly progs to reminisce on the year of 2000 AD comics for the year 1978. It’s a chance to reflect, review, and give out awards! Welcome to the 1978 Spinnies! At the end of every chronological year in our prog timeline we’ll give out awards to the storylines and thrills we liked best over the last year. Award Categories: Best Art Best Story Best Overall Thrill Best Month Best Year Contact the show at spaces...

In our thrilling twenty-seventh episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 89-93 of 2000 AD, covering November and December of 1978. Join us as we sing Wolrog victory tunes and reflect on the eternal nature of super-villain tyranny. Judge Fish Demands it! Thrills Covered: Judge Dredd Ro-Busters Flesh Future Shocks Strontium Dog Contact the show at spacespinner2000@gmail.com Song: Rat Trap by The Boomtown Rats 4.59

In our thrilling twenty-sixth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 86-88 of 2000 AD, covering September and early October of 1978. This episode is also designed for new listeners, with explanations about the nature of both the show and 2000 AD. If you’re interested in getting into either, this is a great place to start! As well as a recap and recommendations of thrills and episodes to listen to, this episode also contains the 2000 AD/Starlo...

In our thrilling twenty-fifth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest comic with the 1979 2000 AD Annual (Annuals are dated by the following year). This episode we discuss the difficulties of lunar time keeping, just how fair certain statements are, and how many words in a comic book are TOO many words. Also Conrad almost blows out his throat doing the THRILL VOICE! Thrills Covered: The Biggest Game of All MACH 1 Food The Phantom Patrol Doctor Sin A Ser...

In our thrilling twenty-fourth episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with Progs 80-85 of 2000 AD, covering September and early October of 1978. Also Conrad and Fox discuss the ethical ramifications of destroying every robot you see. For the record, it’s fine, don’t stress about it! (Note: Conrad writes these synopses.) Thrills Covered: Robo-Hunter Ant Wars Judge Dredd Future Shocks Dan Dare Walter the Wobot Fwiend of Dwedd Contact the show at s...