Appearing in "Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam (part 8)"[]
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Supporting characters:
Villains:
- Kidd
- The Human League
Other characters:
- Police robots
Location:
- Bow Street police station, Brit-Cit
Items:
- Axes, hammers and blasters
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam (part 8)"[]
The Human League go off to trash a police station, singing a song about it. They free all the Human League prisoners from their cells. Unfortunately, one of the former detainees recognises Sam as a robot-lover.
Appearing in "Genius Is Pain: An Abelard Snazz Misadventure"[]
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Supporting characters:
- Edwin
Villains:
- None
Other characters:
- The manager of the universe
- Mr Slaunk Hildaboop
Location:
- Universal HQ
Items:
- Neuron-whisk
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "Genius Is Pain: An Abelard Snazz Misadventure"[]
Snazz has been plummeting towards a boiling vortex since prog 254. Just when he has abandoned all hope, he is teleported away to the other side of the universe to celebrate birthday. The manager of the universe gives him "the one gift that will make you happier than anything in the world": his old robot, Edwin.
Appearing in "Judge Dredd: The Last Invader (part 2)"[]
Writer:
- Alan Grant and John Wagner (writing as T. B. Grover)
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Supporting characters:
- East-Meg Judge Nikita Engels
Villains:
- East-Meg Judge Nikita Engels
Other characters:
- Annie Pritchard, a.k.a. Agony Annie
- Judge Henson
Locations:
- Megapolitan Tower, Mega-City One
- Joe Bugner Block Stadium, ditto
Items:
- Plasteen explosive
- Jetpack
Vehicles:
- Dredd's Lawmaster
Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: The Last Invader (part 2)"[]
Insane East-Meg Judge Nikita Engels detonates an explosive in Megapolitan Tower, enraged at the magazine's agony aunt not taking him seriously. Dredd plays the audio slug Engels sent to the agony aunt and hears a background voice pinning Engels' location down to Joe Bugner Block Stadium. The Judges and Engels get into a firefight. Dredd ends it by taking a jetpack up to the maintenance loft and killing East-Meg One's last invader. As he carries the body back to ground level (in a pose reminiscent of his last contact with his dead brother Rico), he reflects that "If all the East-Meggers had been like Nikita Engels, maybe we wouldn't have won."
Appearing in "Harry Twenty on the High Rock"[]
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- Seventy-Seven Sunset, Japan's most wanted mobster
- Root Sixty-Six, Africa bloc's public enemy number one
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Items:
- Ice pick (wielded by Big Red One)
Vehicles:
- Escape capsule
Synopsis for "Harry Twenty on the High Rock"[]
Genghis and Ben are impatient to escape. Harry deliberately starts a fight with the guards so that he and his friends will be put on punishment detail chipping ice off the High Rock's waste vents, which means going outside. They manage to inch round to the blind spot where they've hidden their escape capsule, but just then Big Red One and his cronies launch an ambush...
Appearing in "Rogue Trooper: Fort Neuro (part 9)"[]
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Villains:
- General Vagner of the Nort army
- Admiral Torpitz of the Nort navy
Other characters:
- Ro-Ger and Pierre, mechanised messengers
- Colonel Casanova, C.O. of the Roms
Location:
- Rom sector, Fortress Neuropa, Nu Earth
- Siege lines outside Fortress Neuropa
Items:
- Rom sergeant's blue-suede boots
- Hairspray
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "Rogue Trooper: Fort Neuro (part 9)"[]
Rogue and Bagman discover that the inhabitants of Rom sector, like everybody else in Fortress Neuropa, have gone nuts. "Rom for 'romeo' — I get it! This garrison has turned into a bunch of disco freaks!" Meanwhile, the two Nort leaders whom Rogue failed to assassinate in prog 279 plan to attack Fortress Neuropa and avenge themselves on the G.I. who killed the other two members of their quadrumvirate.
Notes[]
Published by Fleetway on 15th January 1983. Sold for 18p in the UK.
Trivia[]
Letters and fan art from readers are published in the Nerve Centre.
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.