2000 AD #2186

Prog 2186 of Britain's premier SF anthology opens with a cover that's equal parts grim and grimly funny — a ghoulish, red-eyed figure crouches in a stone dungeon, gnawing on a bone amid a scatter of skulls and skeletal remains, daring you with the tagline "You Got a Bone to Pick?" The mood is dark and atmospheric, with crumbling arches and shadows lending the scene a genuinely unsettling weight. Rebellion's 2000 AD was delivering this kind of sharp, macabre wit in 2020 with all the confidence of a weekly that's been doing it for decades.