2000 AD #1963

Ryan Brown's cover for 2000 AD #1963 is a wild, high-octane image: a snarling, red-eyed giant with blue-striped grey skin looms behind a speeding armored vehicle swarming with oversized, aggressive insects — ants, beetles, and more — while the tagline "Can Gene Outrace the Super-Swarm?" sets the stakes perfectly. The "Bugsplot!" banner and the chaos of blood-spattered blades and chitinous legs make this one of the more viscerally striking covers in the anthology's 2016 run. Still proudly flying its "Britain's Most Subversive Comic" badge, this prog delivers the kind of gloriously strange energy that keeps 2000 AD essential reading.