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I remember reading Skizz in the pages of 2000 A.D. in 1983 and thinking it was pretty clearly a ripoff of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which had caused such a stir on the big screen the previous year.

I still think Skizz was inspired by E.T., but as knockoffs go it’s well-executed. Alan Moore, the writer on Skizz, would go on to redefine superhero comics a few short years later with the Watchmen.

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But the real treat is the scratchy, detailed art by Jim Baikie. You may know him from his work on Judge Dredd.

Baikie is equally at home drawing the rough-and-tumble neighbourhoods of Birmingham, as well as the title alien’s idyllic homeworld.

Between Baikie’s art and Moore’s script, you’ll believe an alien crash-landed in former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s England.

The human who befriends the reluctant refugee from Tau Ceti is Roxie, a teen schoolgirl with punky hair.

She is helped by two adults, including Cornelius, an out-of-work pipefitter, who is a vehicle for Moore to make a sideways comment about the politics of the day.