2000 AD #458

Judge Dredd looms large on this February 1986 cover of 2000 AD, glowering through a magnifying glass at a tiny, wide-eyed cockroach staring defiantly back — while his speech bubble delivers the perfectly deadpan warning, "Don't Bug Me, Creep!" The cover art by Robin Smith beautifully sets up the comic premise of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Cockroach, aged 13½ months," promising a strip with genuine wit lurking beneath Dredd's granite exterior. Inside, Alan Moore and Ian Gibson contribute to this prog's lineup, making Prog 458 a fine slice of British comics at their most entertainingly offbeat.