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2000AD Prog 354: “Easy meat! The wounded walk in for treatment – and we finish them off!”

Ezquerra provides the Strontium Dog cover which is basically the last panel of the last prog’s / first panel of this prog’s story with the window framing the cover.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre brings good news – work has finished on the 2000AD Annual 1985 – the reason it’s particularly good news is that astute readers will detect that 96 pages with 32 in full colour means it’s in the quality format…

Dan Dare Annual 1980: “DARE to wingman – peel off! I’ve got to make the DEATH RUN ALONE!”

Another annual cover from Kev O’Neill. Nice colours though I’d have preferred it if he’d been working on more comic pages! I don’t think he’s got any more work on ABC Warriors, but it’s a long time ’til Comic Rock. The cover actually ties in to the first story, so I won’t go into detail.

The contents pages has a still from a sci-fi film or TV series (though nothing I recognise – something…

2000AD and Starlord Prog 118: You are Trapped, Johnny Alpha… Trapped in Hell for Ever!

A Carlos devil adorns the latest prog cover with contrasting reds and greens creating a striking image of said devil, Johnny and Wulf (take that, Teal and Orange).

The Nerve Centre has a teaser of three new stories starting next prog – I’m thinking ABC Warriors, maybe Project Overkill and something else. The reader’s story features a future scientist (from 1987) heading to the far future and…