2000 AD #179

Prog 179 of 2000 AD hits the streets in September 1980, spotlighting Strontium Dog with the bold cover line "On the Trail of Willy Blanko!" Carlos Ezquerra's cover art delivers a rugged, heavily armed bounty hunter with a wild red beard clutching both a hefty firearm and a blade, while the helmeted Johnny Alpha looms watchfully in the background amid a fiery red glow. It's a vivid, kinetic composition that captures the gritty frontier energy Ezquerra brought to this series, and with a Judge Dredd mobile strip also promised this issue, there's plenty packed into just 14p.