2000AD Annual 1981

This annual's cover character montage comes courtesy of Dave Gibbons - showing Tharg in between Judge Dredd (in his own and Bolland's style) and Johnny Alpha (looking pretty faithful to an Ezquerra picture). This is promising - following that Gibbons' cover the inside starts with a star pin-up of Deadlock ("They mystic A.B.C. Warrior) by …

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2000AD and Tornado Prog 139: Danger! Danger! The ALIEN who came in from the cold!

Carlos Ezquerra signs this cover of an alien of indeterminate race climbs through what could be an airlock (the background looks like a planet seen from above, but if so the alien doesn't need a vacuum suit). I mention that Carlos signed it because of all those L J Silver contributions lately... Over the pages …

Tornado No 4: Loathed by his Men! Feared by his Masters! Blackhawk is the Savage Centurion!

Finally! Tornado gets a proper cover, with Blackhawk taking centre stage and not sharing the space with a free gift. The Big Editorial continues the Daily Planet-inspired photo strips about the editorial team behind Tornado. Dave Gibbons' involvement in this blatant rip-off didn't do his career any harm though - DC would hire him to …

Tornado No 3: Who is Storm? Where is he from?

Another 'new comic cover' with a tiny picture of newcomer Storm taking about a fifth of the cover space, a photo of Dave Gibbons' face and the rest promoting the 'sensation free gift' which, when, laying out the comics I'd be reading in the coming week or so, gave no clues to what the gift …