2000 AD #2162

This festive 100-page Zarjaz Xmas Mega-Special serves up "The Gift of Thrill-Power" with a cover scene that perfectly captures the season's anarchic spirit — a green-skinned figure in a fur-trimmed red Santa coat and reindeer antlers stands centre stage, surrounded by an assortment of robots and mechanoids, all posed amid wrapped presents, a decorated Christmas tree, and warm holiday lighting. It's a wonderfully offbeat yuletide tableau that only 2000 AD could pull off with such gleeful confidence. At 100 pages, Prog 2162 makes a genuinely generous seasonal package for fans of Britain's longest-running sci-fi anthology.