2000 AD #1135

A squad of blue-armored, lightning-bolt-emblazoned warriors — the Banzai Battalion — charges forward in tight formation, weapons raised, bearing down on what appears to be an enormous fallen figure looming in the foreground, all rendered in Greg Staples' striking painted cover art. This March 1999 prog kicks off a new Judge Dredd story from the reliable team of writer John Wagner and artist Henry Flint, alongside strips from Nikolai Dante, Sinister Dexter, Anderson PSI, and Mercy Heights. At £1.20, Prog 1135 packs a genuinely impressive lineup into a single weekly package.