2000 AD #836

A blue-skinned figure dominates this prog 834 cover — mouth wide open in a fierce, anguished scream, a targeting monocle clamped over one eye and bold red-and-gold helmet straps framing the face — Brett Ewins delivering a close-up portrait that practically leaps off the newsstands. Inside, this 1993 issue packs in six strips, including Judge Dredd in "The Great Brain Robbery Part 2," alongside Bad Company, Purgatory, Firekind, and Armoured Gideon. Thirty-six pages of varied thrills for 60p makes this a genuinely solid slice of what British anthology comics were doing so well at the time.