2000 AD Vol 1 238

2000 AD Vol 1 #238

November, 1981

Creators

Steve MacManus

Creators

Kevin O'Neill

"Rogue Trooper"
Creators Gerry Finley-Day Creators Colin Wilson Creators Colin Wilson Creators Bill Nuttall

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Appearing in "Rogue Trooper"

Featured characters:

• Rogue Trooper

Supporting characters:

• Helm
• Gunnar
• Bagman

Villains:

• Traitor General

Other characters:

• Souther generals

Location:

• Nu Earth orbit

Items:

• Nort missile

Vehicles:

• Buzzard-3, a military satellite
  
  

Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper"

Thanks to the traitor's sabotage, the last Genetic Infantryman and his dead friends are falling from orbit down to the surface of Nu Earth in a lifepod with no heat shield. Can Gunnar save the day?

Appearing in "Nemesis the Warlock"

Writer:

• Pat Mills

Artist:

• Kevin O'Neill

Featured characters:

• Nemesis the Warlock

Supporting characters:

• Brother Gogol, a mandrake (half human, half alien)

Villains:

• Torquemada

Other characters:

• Yologs (a type of alien)
• N'Kognito, a huge invisible alien
• Brother Babel

Locations:

• Temple of Terminus, Termight

Items:

• Pandemonium

Vehicles:

• None
  
  

Synopsis for "Nemesis the Warlock"

Nemesis helps aliens to escape from the Temple of Terminus via the dimension portal beneath the sacrificial fire.

Appearing in "The Mean Arena"

Writer:

• Tom Tully

Artist:

• Eric Bradbury

Letterer:

• Peter Knight

Featured characters:

• Matt Tallon

Supporting characters:

• Chip, a kid "who can move like lightning, and radiate pure energy"

Villains:

• Robo-Surgeon

Other characters:

• Rollo Hartie, smiling a skin-grafted smile
• Slick, a player for the Edinburgh Executioners

Locations:

• London
• Edinburgh

Items:

• Vid-link

Vehicles:

• Cars
• Railway carriage
  
  

Synopsis for "The Mean Arena"

A boy called Chip saves Matt Tallon's life, Rollo Harti explains who Chip is, and Tallon prepares to face the Edinburgh Executioners.

Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Block Mania (part 3)"

Writer:

• Alan Grant and John Wagner (writing as T. B. Grover)

Artist:

• Ron Smith

Letterer:

• Tom Frame

Featured characters:

• Judge Dredd

Supporting characters:

• Max Normal

Villains:

• Dr Feenya Morgan

Other characters:

• Judges Flinn, Shaver and Bilko

Location:

• Mega-City One

Items:

• Canisters of riot foam
• Electro-cordons

Vehicles:

• H-wagon
• Mopads
  
  

Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Block Mania (part 3)"

Block mania spreads to the Judges. As they start to pick sides, Max Normal crawls through stumm gas to bring some important information to Judge Dredd.

Appearing in "The Double-Decker Dome Strikes Back: an Abelard Snazz story"

Writer:

• Alan Moore

Artist:

• Mike White

Letterer:

• Jack Potter

Featured characters:

• Abelard Snazz

Supporting characters:

• Lowly Farbian crottle worms

Villains:

• Well... probably Abelard Snazz

Other characters:

• Farbian flunky
• King Gabfrank

Location:

• The planet Farbus

Items:

• Crottle weed
• Virtue converter

Vehicles:

• The first worm-powered cosmic darning needle in known space
  
  

Synopsis for "The Double-Decker Dome Strikes Back: an Abelard Snazz story"

Abelard Snazz saves the Farbians' economy, solves their energy crisis and insults some worms.

Notes

Published by Fleetway on 14th November 1981. Sold for 16p in the UK.

Trivia

Also contains letters and pictures from readers, plus a text piece imagining what "the first space war" might be like: "A new breed of spy satellite is aloft. It can look down, through snow clouds, or at night, and see what somebody is reading... even if they are indoors!"

Recommended reading

Some of these stories are also collected in trade paperbacks.

Links and references

The official website of 2000 AD includes an online shop.