2000 AD #1499

Prog 1499 of Britain's beloved weekly anthology arrives with a striking Dom Reardon cover depicting a wild-haired, goggle-wearing undead figure aiming a bizarre trumpet-barreled weapon straight at the viewer, framed by ghostly pale trees and an eerie purple haze. The bold tagline "Dead on Target! Smokin' Kippers Comes to the Rescue" sets a wonderfully irreverent tone that 2000 AD fans will find instantly appealing. Inside, Simon Spurrier and Peter Doherty — who handles every aspect of the art on "Versus" — deliver what promises to be another sharp slice of the anarchic storytelling that has kept this prog firing on all cylinders since 1977.