2000 AD #1677
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeProg 1677 marks the opening chapter — 'To the Dark and Empty Skies' — of the Damnation Station serial, one of Al Ewing's earliest co-created strips at 2000 AD and a title that helped establish Ewing as a writer of note before his later rise at Marvel. The same prog carries continuing chapters of both the ABC Warriors, Pat Mills's long-running robot-war strip, and the fledgling Zombo series, meaning a single weekly issue in 2010 showcased three distinct 2000 AD creative voices simultaneously. Taken together, the issue sits at the junction of the anthology's classic heritage and the new-talent pipeline that editor Matt Smith was actively cultivating at the time.
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By 2010, 2000 AD had been published under Rebellion Developments for a decade, with Matt Smith serving as editor since 2002. The prog fell during a period when Smith was introducing shorter, self-contained strips by newer writers alongside perennial fixtures like Judge Dredd and ABC Warriors — a deliberate editorial strategy to widen the creative roster. Al Ewing, who had already debuted Zombo in prog 1632, was given Damnation Station as another new vehicle, while Pat Mills continued his multi-decade stewardship of the ABC Warriors.
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- Prog 1677 opens the first chapter of Damnation Station, titled 'To the Dark and Empty Skies', a new strip co-created by writer Al Ewing; the story index confirms it began at prog 1677 and ran through prog 1680.
- Al Ewing is credited as co-creator of both Damnation Station and Zombo — his two earliest original strips at 2000 AD — making prog 1677 a document of his formative work before he became known internationally for Marvel titles.
- The issue carries a continuing episode of ABC Warriors, Pat Mills's long-running robot-ensemble strip that first appeared in prog 119 (1979); characters appearing include Hammerstein, Ro-Jaws, Mek-Quake, Mongrol, Deadlock, Joe Pineapples, Steelhorn, and Zippo.
- Deadlock, one of the ABC Warriors featured in this issue, first appeared in ABC Warriors prog 123; Ro-Jaws's origins go further back still, to Ro-Busters in Starlord no. 1, before that series merged into 2000 AD.
- Zombo — the half-human, half-zombie biological weapon created by artist Henry Flint and scripted by Ewing — also appears in this prog; Zombo's debut series launched in prog 1632 (2009), making prog 1677 part of its very early run.
- The Dredd-universe characters indexed (Judge Dredd, Judge Rico, Judge Beeny, Chief Judge Francisco, Deputy Chief Judge Sinfield, and P.J. Maybe) place a Judge Dredd serial as a fourth strip in this issue, consistent with 2000 AD's standard weekly anthology format of five strips per prog.
- Ichabod Azrael, described in 2000 AD promotional materials as an 'undead cowboy', also appears — the character was a contemporary strip running in the prog around this period.
- Published under Rebellion Developments, which has owned and published 2000 AD since 2000 with Matt Smith as editor from 2002 onward; prog 1677 falls squarely in Smith's editorial tenure.
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Reprinted in 2000 AD Free Comic Book Day #2012 (2012), 2000 AD The Ultimate Collection #158 (2023), Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #49 (2026)
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