2000 AD #1271
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeProg 1271 is a representative issue of 2000 AD's newly relaunched era under Rebellion Developments, which had acquired the title in 2000 and set about stabilising and revitalising the anthology after years under Egmont UK. It showcases the anthology's signature multi-strip format at a transitional moment, pairing a Judge Dredd procedural — drawing on a well-populated supporting cast of named Justice Department figures — with a standalone instalment of Sinister Dexter, the long-running crime-comedy strip by Dan Abnett that by 2001 had become one of the title's most prolific and popular non-Dredd series. The presence of Psi Judge Anderson alongside Dredd and the full SJS/Tek-Division supporting ensemble illustrates how richly the 2000 AD universe had been built out over two decades of continuous publication.
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By 2001, 2000 AD was in its first full year under Rebellion, the video-game publisher that purchased the title from Egmont UK and would go on to launch a systematic collected-editions programme. Prog 1271's Sinister Dexter instalment, 'Suddenly, Genghis,' was written by series creator Dan Abnett and illustrated by Siku — the pseudonym of British-Nigerian artist Ajibayo Akinsiku, a 2000 AD contributor since 1991 whose fully painted style had already graced several earlier Sinister Dexter one-shots. Abnett had worked with Siku on the strip multiple times before this issue, making it part of a sustained creative relationship within the series.
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- Prog 1271 was published in 2001 by Rebellion Developments, the company that had acquired 2000 AD in 2000 after the title's previous run under Egmont UK.
- The Sinister Dexter story in this issue is titled 'Suddenly, Genghis,' written by Dan Abnett with art by Siku (Ajibayo Akinsiku).
- Sinister Dexter — featuring gun-sharks Finnigan 'Finny' Sinister and Ramone 'Ray' Dexter, hitmen operating in the futuristic European city of Downlode — was created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate, first appearing in the 2000 AD Winter Special in December 1995.
- Siku is a British-Nigerian artist (pseudonym of Ajibayo Akinsiku) who had been contributing fully painted work to 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine since 1991; he had previously illustrated several Sinister Dexter shorts including 'The Mating Game' (prog 1066) and 'Dressed to Kill' (prog 1078).
- The issue carries a Judge Dredd strip alongside Psi Judge Anderson and Sinister Dexter — the standard multi-strip anthology format 2000 AD maintained throughout this era.
- The supporting cast indexed for the Dredd content — Chief Judge Hershey, SJS Chief Judge Buell, Chief Tek-Judge McTighe, Judges Hollister, Niles, and Ramos — reflects the layered institutional world of Mega-City One's Justice Department that Dredd stories had been building since the late 1970s.
- Sinister Dexter is noted as one of 2000 AD's longest-running non-Dredd series, with only Judge Dredd himself accumulating more story appearances in the comic.
- The 'Money Shots' Sinister Dexter collection (Rebellion, October 2009) collected stories from the period surrounding this issue, including material from progs roughly contemporaneous with prog 1271.
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Reprinted in Judge Anderson: The Psi Files #4 (2014), Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection #10 (2015), Killer #[nn] (2016), Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection #18 (2017), Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #34 (2019)
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