2000 AD #979

This 1996 issue of 2000 AD announces a "Valentine's Day Massacre" with a cover that delivers on the promise — a blue-skinned, red-haired Venus Blue Genes strides forward through a burst heart-shaped wreath of ammunition belts and debris, twin glowing guns blazing in each hand. Cover artist Jason Brashill gives the image a wonderfully defiant energy, pairing the holiday's pinks and reds with serious firepower. Inside, the anthology rolls on with "The Pit, Part 10" by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil, plus closing chapters of Darkness Visible, Flesh, and Kid Cyborg — a packed weekly that makes good on every bit of that cover attitude.