2000 AD #1496

Prog 1496 of 2000 AD arrives with a cover by Cliff Robinson that's genuinely hard to look away from — a vast, horizon-filling army of identical silver robots packed shoulder-to-shoulder, their glowing orange eyes staring outward in eerie unison, while a single figure in the middle of the crowd blazes with a burst of fire and dark smoke, visually embodying the tagline "Overload with Thrill-Power… and stand out from the crowd." Inside, Simon Spurrier and artist/inker Paul Marshall (with colors by Chris Blythe and letters by Annie Parkhouse) kick off "Neoweirdies Part 1," promising the kind of strange, inventive storytelling that's kept 2000 AD at the forefront of British comics in 2006. A fine jumping-on point for anyone curious about what the Galaxy's Greatest Comic has to offer.