2000 AD #597

Prog 597 of 2000 AD lands on 22 October 1988 with a striking cover by Jim McCarthy, dominated by a sharp-featured woman with a bold white bob — her gaze cool and direct — while a weathered, collar-wearing man looms in the background against a vivid blue-and-yellow checkerboard. The cover teases the Tyranny Rex story "Soft Bodies" alongside "Well 'Ard," making this a solid mid-autumn slice of Fleetway's weekly anthology at its most visually confident. With Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell among the interior talent, there's plenty of imaginative storytelling packed inside this 35p prog.