2000 AD #1923

Prog 1923 of 2000 AD lands with a cover by Nick Percival that's hard to ignore — a hulking, armored figure with a grotesquely exposed, spike-riddled brain holds a telephone receiver to its helmet while barking the demand "Get me Savage!", all rendered in Percival's distinctively moody, textured style. The banner proclaiming "Howard: A New Breed of Despot" sets a wonderfully ominous tone for what's inside this 2015 British weekly anthology. With interior work from the creative team of Alec Worley, Carl Critchlow, and letterer Annie Parkhouse on "Perps, Crimes & Videotape," this prog delivers the reliably offbeat thrills that keep 2000 AD readers coming back.