2000 AD #1106

This 1998 prog from 2000 AD packs in a full slate of thrills, with stories featuring Nikolai Dante, Judge Dredd investigating Demarco's double life, and the Slaine feature billed as "Savage Sword of Slaine!" taking centre stage. Jason Brashill's cover delivers on that promise with a muscular, long-haired warrior — sword raised and expression fierce — locked in close-quarters combat with a pair of armoured, skull-faced brutes bearing war-hammers. It's a visceral, in-your-face composition that captures exactly the kind of brutal, mythic energy 2000 AD reliably brought to British comics in the late nineties.