2000 AD #244

A festive 26 December 1981 edition of Britain's favourite weekly anthology, this prog features the ongoing Judge Dredd epic "Block Mania" alongside what the cover promises is an Ace Trucking Co. adventure. The cover, drawn by Massimo Belardinelli, plunges you into a wild sci-fi corridor brawl — a hulking, heavily armed figure opens fire down a circular tunnel as enemies scatter, with speech bubbles barking "Hit them jackers with the old blazooga, biff!" and a gruff aside about space trucking not being what anyone expected. It's a gloriously chaotic piece of work that captures the irreverent, anything-goes energy that made 2000 AD such a distinctive voice in early-eighties comics.