2000 AD #438

The cover of 2000 AD Prog 438, dated 5 October 1985, erupts with chaotic battlefield energy — heavily armed combatants clash across a fractured, debris-strewn landscape, with a dramatic burst of red at the center pulling the eye through the carnage. Bryan Talbot's cover art is dense and kinetic, packed with mechanical warriors and flying craft all locked in furious conflict, perfectly teasing the Nemesis the Warlock storyline within. That bold tagline — "Death in the Fast Lane!" — along with the ominous header "Warning: Nem at Work!" sets a gleefully dangerous tone for this chapter of Book V: The Vengeance of Thoth.