2000 AD #730

Mean Machine Angel dominates this May 1991 cover of 2000 AD Prog 730, rendered with gleeful grotesquerie by cover artist Richard Dolan — the dial-headed maniac lunges forward on his mechanical leg, goggle-eyed and howling, with "BOK" splashed across the sky behind him in true unhinged fashion. The cover promises a brand-new Mean Machine series kicking off this very prog, and the "Mean and Mental!" tagline captures the anarchic energy perfectly. Inside, Garth Ennis writes and Dillon draws the latest chapter of "Emerald Isle," making this a fine slice of early-'90s British comics at its most entertainingly deranged.