2000 AD #407

A wonderfully unsettling slice of Mega-City One street life, 2000 AD Prog 407 (March 1985) puts an ordinary man at the center of something sinister. Brett Ewins's cover depicts Lennard J. Stibble — a 43-year-old kneepad salesman, "happily single" — stumbling wide-eyed through a busy futuristic cityscape, surrounded by mohawked punks and armored figures, the cover copy ominously marking him as the next victim of the Hunters Club. Featuring Judge Dredd and a story from the creative team of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, this prog delivers that perfect blend of dark humor and creeping dread that made 2000 AD such a distinctive voice in 1985 British comics.