2000 AD #453

The January 1986 edition of 2000 AD Prog 453 promises "The Public Hell of Private Jones!" — and Ian Gibson's cover delivers the chaos in full, showing a soldier getting his helmet smashed by a sword-wielding attacker on what appears to be a brutal military assault course, while a commanding figure points and shouts "Hammer That Helmet!" in the background. A squad of armored troops looms in the dusty distance, hinting at the punishing world Private Jones is being put through. With Pat Mills writing and David Pugh on interior art, this prog looks like a grimly entertaining slice of military misery, 2000 AD-style.