2000 AD #616

Prog 616 of 2000 AD hits with a cover by Kevin Hopgood that puts you uncomfortably close to the action — a grim-faced man wearing a badge (identified by the header as Tanner) recoils as an enormous gun is leveled at him point-blank, the question "Final Curtain for Tanner?" hanging in the air with real menace. The Night Zero logo anchors the bottom right, signaling this is the strip at the heart of this tense visual. Inside, Alan Grant scripts "Helios, Part 3" with art and inks by David A. Roach, making this a solid 1989 installment of Britain's favourite weekly anthology.