Rogue Trooper Friday
Friday is a genetically engineered Bio-GI — a soldier bred for war on the toxic planet Nu-Earth — who continues the legacy of the original Rogue Trooper. Debuting in 2000 AD #650, he carries on the struggle for survival in a world poisoned by endless conflict.
Born from the pages of 2000 AD #650 in 1989, Rogue Trooper Friday is a Fleetway Publications creation brought to life by the formidable team of John Wagner and John Higgins — a character who carries the weight of that legendary British anthology's most ambitious science-fiction storytelling. Emerging in the Copper Age and maintaining a presence in the catalog stretching all the way to 2013, Friday carved out a remarkable 24-year footprint across 131 appearances, including two collector-significant key issues that any serious 2000 AD enthusiast will want to track down. The company Friday keeps is nothing short of extraordinary — sharing pages with icons like Joe Dredd, Venus Bluegenes, and Sláine, placing this character at the very heart of 2000 AD's sprawling, gloriously weird universe. For fans of British comics' golden era of boundary-pushing sci-fi, Rogue Trooper Friday is a richly rewarding deep dive.
Trivia
- Friday, the rebooted Rogue Trooper introduced in the 1989 story The War Machine, was eventually treated as a separate continuity from the original Rogue rather than a direct continuation.2000ad.com
- Where the original strip carried a distinct World War II sensibility, Friday was deliberately designed with a Vietnam War flavor, marking a conscious tonal shift in the series' production history.2000ad.com
- John Wagner has written more of Rogue Trooper Friday's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 33 issues.
Top series
Covers through the years — 1989–2013
★ 1989 
1991 
1993 
★ 1995 
1996 
2013