2000 AD #1082

Three figures burst across the cover of this February 1998 prog in a blaze of gunfire — a white-haired woman, a red-haired figure in dark glasses, and an older bespectacled man, all armed and clearly not going quietly. The tagline "Last Stand!" and the promise of "Death on the Dancefloor" tease the Sinister Dexter strip inside, while a separate banner heralds Durham Red as "a saint, a vampire, a woman out of time." Steve Yeowell's cover art delivers the kind of kinetic, sharp-lined energy that made 2000 AD's weekly progs such a fixture of British sci-fi comics.