Two Americans read 2000 AD, one month at a time
Conrad and a rotating co-reader move chronologically through 2000 AD, covering roughly a month of progs per episode with beat-by-beat recaps and running commentary. Year-end retrospectives hand out the Spinnies, an awards ceremony with categories defined as loosely as possible.
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Space Spinner 2000 is a long-haul reading project. Conrad and a co-reader go through 2000 AD in publication order, roughly one month of progs per episode, and talk about what they just read. The archive runs past 450 episodes. Around the mid-1990s material they are covering serials including ABC Warriors, Chopper, Rogue Trooper, Parasites, Vector 13 and Red Ray, alongside the beginning of Judge Dredd and The Pit. Nothing gets skipped. Letters pages, house ads, and the endless promotional churn around the Judge Dredd film all get airtime, and the film itself remains a grievance the hosts return to without much prompting. The recap style is granular. A fight scene gets narrated in sequence, right down to who jumps out of which window, and then the conversation immediately turns to whether the beat earned itself. That pivot from summary to argument is the show's basic rhythm. Digressions are frequent and usually welcome, whether the subject is comics history, production context, or a piece of trivia in a filler page that turns out to be nonsense. Both hosts are Americans reading a very British comic, and that outsider angle produces genuine questions about references and tone rather than a pose of expertise. Guests appear too, including a reader brought on for a Winter Special episode, and those conversations tend to circle around how a lapsed reader re-enters a serial mid-arc. Specials and one-offs get their own episodes, with attention to cover prices and where a strip like Sinister Dexter first turned up. The year-end retrospectives are a highlight of the format. They are called the Spinnies, they hand out awards in categories the hosts cheerfully admit are defined as loosely as possible, and a nomination can be a whole year of work or a single panel. Listener nominations get read out after the hosts finish, which keeps the audience visibly present in the show. A parallel strand called Big Meg One applies the same treatment to the Judge Dredd Megazine, with awards called the Meggies. There is a fondness underneath all the nitpicking. The hosts complain about weak stretches, then keep reading. They also let the seams show, mentioning erratic posting schedules and life changes rather than papering over them. It sounds like two people who know the terrain well enough to disagree productively about it, and who are in no hurry to finish.
Made for: Longtime 2000 AD readers who enjoy issue-by-issue continuity talk, and newer or returning readers who want a guided path through the archive. Also suits anyone who likes comics podcasts where recap and argument share equal billing.
What sets it apart: It is a strict chronological march through a weekly anthology rather than a topic-of-the-week comics chat, which means back issues, letters pages and forgotten one-offs get the same attention as the famous strips. The year-end Spinnies awards, built partly from listener nominations, turn the read-through into an ongoing shared record.
Every week Fox and Conrad travel to the land of Thrill Power with 2000 AD, the weekly anthology comic from the UK, probably best known as the home of Judge Dredd. But the stoney-jawed enforcer of the law in Mega-City One is only one of hundreds of thrilling tales that the comic has told over its almost 40 year history. Join us as we travel through the pages of 2000 AD, from the very start of the comic, one month at a time!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A chronological 2000 AD reread that connects plot, artwork, editorial debris and franchise history through detailed, good-humored argument.
Space Spinner 2000 turns a chronological reading of 2000 AD into close, conversational criticism. Conrad and his co-hosts work through groups of issues, following story continuity while judging artwork, writing, character decisions and the occasional baffling creative choice.
A month of 2000 AD becomes your book club, continuity clinic, and occasional Mark Millar grievance.
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