2000 AD #1790
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeProg 1790 is a landmark anthology issue that simultaneously closes the book on two beloved long-running strips within a few pages of each other: it carries the concluding episode of Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra's Durham Red six-parter 'The Nobody Wants This Job Job' — a story presenting Red's first-ever bounty-hunting case and reuniting her original creative team for the first time in years — while also running the penultimate chapter of Nikolai Dante, the swashbuckling 15-year saga by Robbie Morrison and Simon Fraser that would end just one prog later. The concentration of finales and near-finales in a single issue makes this prog an unusually dense moment in 2000 AD's modern era, capturing the anthology's long tradition of giving serialised characters definitive, creator-driven endings rather than open-ended continuation.
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Prog 1790 was published in July 2012 by Rebellion Developments under editor Matt Smith, who had held the editorial chair since 2002. The issue arrived during a period of heightened creative energy for the weekly: 2012 marked the comic's 35th anniversary, the year of the Karl Urban Dredd film, and a concentrated push into North American distribution. The Durham Red story was announced publicly in May 2012 and specifically framed as a reunion of the character's founding creative team, with Ezquerra providing both interior art and the prog's cover.
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- Prog 1790 carries the final (sixth) episode of 'The Nobody Wants This Job Job' (progs 1785–1790), written by Alan Grant with art by Durham Red co-creator Carlos Ezquerra — the story depicts Red's very first commission as a Search/Destroy bounty hunter.
- Durham Red was originally created in 1987 by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant with artist Carlos Ezquerra as a supporting character in Strontium Dog; she is a mutant bounty hunter with a vampiric blood dependency.
- The cover of prog 1790 is a painted piece by Carlos Ezquerra depicting Durham Red completing her capture of villain Avi Reebok.
- Prog 1790 contains the penultimate episode of Nikolai Dante; the character's final-ever appearance in a regular story came just one prog later in Prog 1791, concluding a run that began in Prog 1035 in March 1997 — over 15 years of publication.
- Nikolai Dante was created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Simon Fraser; the closing story arc, 'Sympathy for the Devil,' began in Prog 1786 and was drawn by Fraser, returning the series to its founding artist for its conclusion.
- The Ichabod Azrael serial 'Manhunt' (by Rob Williams and Dom Reardon, with later episodes by Antonio Fuso) was running through this prog; the strip is set in Prohibition-era Chicago in this arc, a tonal shift from the supernatural Western underworld of its debut run (progs 1677–1688).
- The alternate-history thriller '1947' (written by Kek-W, art by Michael Dowling) also appears in this issue as part of a three-part run across progs 1789–1791.
- A standalone Judge Dredd episode, 'The Bean Counter,' written by Al Ewing with art by Nick Dyer, appears in this prog as a single six-page story — the likely vehicle for the Judge Maitland appearance catalogued for this issue.
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Reprinted in The Best of Tharg's 3rillers #2 (2017)
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