2000 AD #1176

Prog 1176 of 2000 AD kicks off the new millennium with a bold promise — "New Thrills for the New Thrillennium!" — and Dylan Teague's cover delivers in style, depicting a smirking woman in a black swimsuit and wide-brimmed hat, gun in hand, sizing up a broad-shouldered, unarmed man whose mechanical leg holster is the only thing he's wearing. The cover tagline makes clear this is a Strontium Dog moment, with Johnny Alpha naked and defenceless, while sidebar portraits tease the prog's other strips: Judge Dredd, Glimmer Rats, and Missionary Man. It's a genuinely entertaining package from one of British comics' most enduring anthologies.