2000 AD #279

Prog 279 of 2000 AD hits the streets with a cover that puts a hulking, armoured figure front and centre — leaping aggressively across a urban rooftop with a ball clutched in his fist, all rendered in bold linework by cover artist Mike White. The tagline "The Slayer Is on the Loose…" sets a menacing tone, while the Mean Arena logo below him makes clear this bruiser plays by his own violent rules. Inside, Alan Grant and Ian Gibson continue their Judge Dredd-era storytelling with Part 5 of "Killing of Kidd" — and as a bonus, Duran Duran apparently join the Squaxx Dek Thargo this week, making this a memorably eclectic slice of British comics from August 1982.