2000 AD #621

This April 1989 prog from Fleetway's 2000 AD delivers a vivid, psychedelic cover by John Higgins, presenting Judge Dredd's helmeted figure in the foreground against a chaotic swirl of colour, with a muscular figure lunging through a surreal bubble-filled void and an enormous, distorted face looming above. A burning cityscape blazes on the left, reinforcing the headline "BREAKDOWN! — Dredd Knows a Man Who Has!" with genuine dramatic flair. Inside, Alan Grant and David A. Roach continue "Helios" into its eighth chapter, promising the kind of relentless storytelling that made 2000 AD essential weekly reading in 1989.