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Rogue, and the ongoing war between the Norts and the Southers, continue to be amongst the most popular characters and settings created in the pages of 2000AD.
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Dave Gibbons returned to write a radical revamp featuring a new GI called Friday, but this too came to a close, and since then 2000AD has concentrated on a combination of Rogue spin-offs with different characters in the sprawling Nort/Souther war, and one-off flashbacks set during the hunt for the Traitor General. Simon Gellar took over the writing of the strip, with Rogue acting as a hitman assassinating key Nort personnel, but this storyline wrapped in 1989, ending the original Rogue storyline.
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While Gibbons left the strip early, Finley-Day continued with other artists for the entire of the hunt for the Traitor General, and a follow-up storyline set on the planet Horst. For most of his original run in the comics Rogue hunted the Traitor General with his only allies being 'biochips' containing the stored consciousnesses of three of his dead GI buddies – Helm attached to Rogue's helmet, Gunnar attached to his gun and Bagman on his backpack. Rogue is the sole survivor of the Quartz Zone Massacre, where a surprise attack by the entire GI regiment fell into a trap thanks to a traitor within Souther High Command. Rogue is a genetic infantryman or 'GI', a genetically engineered super soldier created by the Souther military to survive the hostile environment of Nu-Earth in their endless war against the Norts. The cover of that issue, or 'prog', in the comic's own jargon (above), is a Gibbons piece of Rogue himself, a bare-chested, muscular blue-skinned soldier opening fire as a caption screams that he's 'the most feared man on Nu-Earth!' Rogue Trooper debuted in 2000AD #228 in 1981, written by Gerry Finley-Day and drawn by Dave Gibbons.
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With Duncan Jones set to direct a movie based on 2000AD's Rogue Trooper, Mark Clapham looks at what might suit the Genetic Infantryman on the big screen.