2000 AD #1444

2000 AD Prog 1144 hits hard with Richard Elson's cover image of Atavar — armored, flame-haired, and defiant — surrounded on all sides by a snarling horde of monstrous ghouls in a blood-red hellscape. The cover tagline says it all: "Atavar battles for his life in a land of the dead," and Elson's dynamic, detail-packed artwork makes that struggle feel genuinely desperate and thrillingly alive. Inside, Gordon Rennie and Andrew Currie continue "Blood Trails Part 5," joined by colorist Chris Blythe and letterer Tom Frame, rounding out a prog that also promises Judge Dredd, Sinister Dexter, Shakara, and Caballistics, Inc. — a seriously stacked Wednesday lineup from June 2005.