2000 AD #2442

This prog's cover is a genuinely unsettling piece of work — a monstrous, sharp-toothed humanoid figure in a jacket is surrounded by writhing tentacles and clawed hands, with glowing blue energy crackling from its skull and disembodied eyeballs scattered throughout the swarming composition. The cover text promises The Ravilious Pact, a story where the gangs of London apparently join forces with Hell itself — which is exactly the kind of gloriously deranged premise that keeps 2000 AD firing on all cylinders. Rebellion's long-running anthology continues to deliver the weird and the wicked in equal measure.