2000 AD - May 1988.

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Politics will always be with us.

And it sometimes seems like some politicians will be too. For instance, May 1988 saw François Mitterrand, having already spent seven years as President of France, manage to get himself re-elected for another seven!

But some things were coming to an end. One of them being that, after more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army began its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In other matters Soviet, the Moscow Summit involving Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev saw the finalisation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty which made us slightly less likely to be annihilated.

And cinema? That magical place in whose bosom we can always escape the vicissitudes of reality? 

Unleashed upon the silver screen, that May, were such never-to-be-forgotten dramas as Dead Heat, Friday the 13th Part VII, Maniac Cop, Not of This Earth, Aria, Willow, Crocodile Dundee II, Rambo III and Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

How many of those have I seen? I think I've seen Maniac Cop, Willow and Crocodile Dundee II. I wish I could claim that any of them are timeless classics but I'm not totally convinced they are. I shall, therefore, have to go for Crocodile Dundee II as the Steve Does Comics Film of the Month.

And the galaxy's greatest comic?

It continued to provide us with The Journal of Luke Kirby, Judge Dredd, A.B.C. Warriors, Rogue Trooper and Strontium Dog.

However, some change was present, thanks to Prog 576's Return of Bad Company.