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Rogue Trooper

Rogue Trooper

357 appearances · Bronze Age · 1981–2026 · 9 key issues
Who is Rogue Trooper?

Rogue Trooper is a Genetic Infantryman — a blue-skinned super-soldier bio-engineered for the toxic battlefields of Nu-Earth. Surviving a devastating betrayal that wiped out his unit, he went AWOL to hunt down the traitor responsible, carrying his fallen comrades' personalities in biochips.

Few characters from the legendary pages of 2000 AD have endured quite like Rogue Trooper, who burst onto the scene in 1981 — deep in the Bronze Age — courtesy of the visionary Dave Gibbons. Over an extraordinary span stretching across nearly five decades, this IPC creation has racked up 357 catalog appearances and nine key collector issues, a testament to a concept that clearly struck a nerve and never let go. Rogue Trooper shares the anarchic, boundary-pushing world of 2000 AD with some of British comics' most beloved icons — Johnny Alpha, Joe Dredd, Sláine, Wulf Sternhammer, and Sam Slade — remarkable company that speaks to just how central this character is to that galaxy of talent. If you love the raw, inventive energy that made 2000 AD a revolution in comics storytelling, Rogue Trooper is absolutely essential reading.

★ First appearance
2000 AD #228
Sep 1981

Trivia

  • Rogue Trooper was briefly rebooted as Friday in the late 1980s, a rare case where a flagship British comics character was effectively replaced by a different version before later being restored.en.wikipedia.org
  • Rogue Trooper's visual identity was strongly shaped by multiple artists over time rather than a single long-term hand, which helped the series develop distinct eras and is one reason collectors often identify it by artist as much as by story.en.wikipedia.org
  • Grant has written more of Rogue Trooper's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 42 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1981–2023

2000 AD #216 1981
2000 AD #216
2000 AD #457 1986
2000 AD #457
2000 AD #567 1988
2000 AD #567
2000 AD Yearbook #1994 1993
2000 AD Yearbook #1994
2000 AD #929 1995
2000 AD #929
2000 AD #1297 2002
2000 AD #1297
2000 AD #1380 2004
2000 AD #1380
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files #1 2010
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files #1
2000 AD #1961 2015
2000 AD #1961
2000 AD #2130 2019
2000 AD #2130
2000 A.D. Regened #[1] 2020
2000 A.D. Regened #[1]
2000 AD #2326 2023
2000 AD #2326

Appearances (151–300 of 357, oldest first)