2000 AD #2126

Earth Under Siege!" blazes across this prog's cover as towering Martian war machines unleash fiery devastation on a city skyline, their spindly mechanical limbs and heat-ray beams cutting through a scene of pure chaos. Two civilians — a bespectacled figure clutching what appears to be a small creature and a wide-eyed companion — scramble in the foreground, dwarfed by the alien onslaught bearing down around them. It's a vivid, urgent cover that sets the stage for Scarlet Traces and the return of the Martian menace in this 2019 issue of the UK's most beloved weekly anthology.