2000 AD #525

Carlos Ezquerra's cover for this 1987 prog pulls no punches: a fierce, armored woman with a punk mohawk looms triumphantly over a visibly distressed man in a suit beneath a blood-red moon, all tied together by the bold tag "Reagan and the Red Menace." The cover teases the return of the Mean Team with that characteristically irreverent 2000 AD energy, promising readers something wild and pointed inside. With Judge Dredd anchoring the lineup alongside Strontium Dog and a Psi-Fry Special, Prog 525 offers a typically packed and sharp-edged slice of British comics at their most confident.