By late 1982, 2000ad has got its stomm together. Here comes the first annual that feels like a full package, and while it doesn't start off well with a Strontium Dog story with unfortunate art by Robin Smith, it's almost all killer, with little filler.
By now the reprints are comics that were produced by the command module just a few years ago, so there is a bunch of Dave Gibbons on Harlem Heroes; and some lovely Ian Kennedy on a Bill Savage story; and the dreadfully underrated John Cooper on Mach One.
It also has two minor Alan Moore efforts - a Rogue Trooper fable with Brett Ewins, and a Ro-Busters story which has some terrific Bryan Talbot art, which also has the irritating habit of over-explaining Joe Pineapples' jargon.
It also has another one of those small Nemesis The Warlock stories, and this one might be my favourite of all of them, because it's the origin of the living spaceship Blitzspear, and Mills and O'Neill show just how fucking alien they are, and it's a glorious burst of pure imagination, in a book that is full of it.
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