2000 AD #234

2000 AD Prog 234 hits newsstands in October 1981 with a cover by Dave Gibbons that drops readers straight into fierce action — a blue-skinned Rogue Trooper crouches low with his rifle as a rider mounted on a snarling, dragon-like beast charges directly at him, with more alien raiders looming in the dusty background. The cover text promises "Rogue Trooper Battles the Raiders of the Atomic Desert," and Gibbons renders the confrontation with real visceral energy, the beast's teeth bared and the laser shot mid-flight. Inside, G. Finley-Day and Gibbons also continue "Ace Trucking Co." in Part 3, making this a packed weekly that keeps the anthology firing on all cylinders.