2000 AD #894

This 1994 prog from Fleetway's 2000 AD serves up one of the most viscerally striking covers of its era, with Clint Langley's painted artwork depicting a wild-eyed, blue-eyed warrior — Slaine, as the tagline "Woad Warrior" and "Slaine Paints the Town Red" make clear — lunging forward with a Celtic cross gripped in his tattooed, war-painted hands, his grinning face striped in vivid red woad. Inside, John Wagner's "Conspiracy of Silence, Part 4" continues with art by Mark Harrison, while the header teases further darkness in Tharg's Terror Tales. Prog 894 is a confident snapshot of 2000 AD at its most ferociously imaginative.