2000 AD - February 1984.

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Frankie might say, "Relax," but, in February 1984, members of that band were probably too excited to do so.

That's because their song of that name was still hogging the Number One spot on the UK singles chart. The one it had seized control of in the early days of January. 

However, even the Frankies couldn't rule forever. And so it was that on the very last week of the month, they were deposed by a German.

That German was Nena, and her track was 99 Red Balloons, that nuclear apocalypse-fearing song of Captain Kirks, super-heroes and floaty, inflated rubber.

Over on the British album chart, three LPs held sway, that month. They were Touch by 
Eurythmics, Sparkle in The Rain by Simple Minds and Into the Gap by the Thompson Twins. None of which I've ever heard. If ordered to choose one to listen to, I think I'd probably opt for the last of those.

But what of the galaxy's greatest comic? What was it up to at the time?

There would appear to have been nothing too dramatic going on. It was still giving us a diet of Sláine, D.R. & Quinch, Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog, although there was something new, with The Great Infinity Inc. Foul-Up, a strip of which I recall nothing.

Perhaps the most exciting news is that Prog 357 gave us the chance to win 100 Judge Dredd games, although I must confess to knowing zilch of what those games entailed.