2000 AD #249

Prog 249 of 2000 AD (30 January 1982) puts Rogue Trooper front and center in spectacular fashion, with Dave Gibbons's cover depicting the blue-skinned G.I. and a heavily armed companion facing down an enormous, fanged serpent that coils menacingly above them. The tagline "Menace of the Dream-Weavers!" hints at strange, unsettling threats lurking within, while "Thrill-Power Peaks in… Rogue Trooper" makes clear where the pulse-pounding focus lies this week. A fine slice of early-'80s British comics energy at its most viscerally thrilling.