2000 AD #843

The cover of this 1993 prog brilliantly spoofs a tabloid front page, presenting 2000 AD as a raucous "super, soaraway" newspaper complete with mock headlines — most prominently "DOOMS-DAVE FOR SADDAM!" — surrounding a sharp, noir-styled illustration by Steve Parkhouse and Rian Hughes of suited, sunglasses-wearing hard men that perfectly captures the era's political satire. The deadpan absurdity of fake stories about Saddam Hussein on an ostrich and Robert Maxwell in a dishwasher sits alongside the real comic content within, where Grant Morrison's script and Carlos Ezquerra's art drive "Inferno, Part 2." It's a wonderfully cheeky package that shows 2000 AD at its most playfully subversive.