2000 AD #426

From the summer of 1985 comes 2000 AD Prog 426, featuring Judge Dredd — and Cam Kennedy's cover throws you straight into a pulse-pounding moment as a barefoot figure in a uniform surfs a hoverboard directly into the path of an oncoming "Terminus" train, arms thrown wide as the collision looms. The bold cover line — "Intruder on track! Impact unavoidable!" — captures the sheer audacity of the scene perfectly, with the train's circular headlight framing the whole desperate tableau. Inside, Grant, Grover, Robin Smith, and T. Frame continue "The Slavers of Drule" in the anthology that was keeping British comics vital every Monday.