2000 AD #436

From September 1985, Prog 436 of 2000 AD arrives with a cover boldly headlined "The S-L-A-Y-E-D Treatment!" — and Ian Gibson delivers the goods, depicting a gun-toting figure in a cap and cape blasting his way through a pair of massive, hulking mechanical or alien creatures amid explosions and sparks, with the defiant speech bubble "My friends call me Sam!" Gibson's linework crackles with kinetic energy, those "KZAAK!" and "BZZZT!" sound effects practically leaping off the page. Inside, Pat Mills scripts alongside artists Mike McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, and Ramon Solá — a formidable creative roster for any week of British comics in 1985.