2000 AD #226

Prog 226 of 2000 AD hits the mean arena with a suitably menacing cover: a hulking armored figure strides forward clutching a red ball, flanked by a brutish companion and two more pursuers charging through a gritty urban back-alley setting — all under the bold tagline "Get Tallon!" Steve Dillon's cover art delivers a real sense of momentum and threat, with the blue-grey armored designs giving the whole scene a cold, functional brutality. Inside, Alan Hebden and Garry Leach continue "The Gronk Affair" with Part 3, making this a fine slice of early-eighties British comics at their most inventive.