2000 AD #1153

Prog 1153 of 2000 AD arrives with a striking Greg Staples cover depicting a hard-edged figure in sunglasses and a leather jacket, cigarette in his lips, thrusting a blazing pistol point-blank toward the reader against a fiery orange backdrop — the tagline "Shoot to Thrill: Payback Time for the Whack Pack" says it all. Inside, this 1999 issue packs five strips — Judge Dredd, Downlode Tales, Devlin Waugh, Mazeworld, and Rose O'Rion — with "War Games, Part 1" among them, brought to life by writer John Wagner and artist Neil Googe. Bonus Star Wars stickers round out a prog that delivers exactly the blend of wit and darkness Heat Magazine praised on the masthead.