2000 AD #324

From the July 9, 1983 prog, this week's 2000 AD cover — pencilled and inked by Ian Gibson — puts Robo-Hunter Sam Slade front and centre, leaping clear of a sleek futuristic vehicle as a "KRAAAK!" sound effect splits the air, while a robot driver glares from the cockpit above him. The cover teases Slade's return to Brit-Cit with terrific kinetic energy, and the robot's taunt — "Dumb place to park a chair, ya crazy hume!" — gives the whole scene a wonderfully sardonic edge. Thirteen instalments into "The Slaying of Slade," this prog delivers exactly the blend of action and dry wit that made 2000 AD unmissable reading in 1983.