2000 AD #1708

Prog 1708 of Britain's beloved weekly anthology arrives with a genuinely arresting cover by Nick Percival — a menacing dark-clad figure clutches a wide-eyed blonde woman against a roiling inferno, his raised hand crackling with eerie green energy as he grins with unmistakable menace. The tagline "Master of Mayhem!" declares that Konstantine Romanov is raising hell, and the painted cover sells that promise with brooding intensity. Inside, Simon Spurrier and Anthony Williams bring "Gutshot" to the pages of 2000 AD, making this a solid 2010 package from one of comics' most reliably thrilling weeklies.