From 1990, the late, lamented Crisis(Fleetway, UK), issue 44. A lot of stuff in Crisis was very heavy-handed and obvious, if well-meant. Its content was primarily political--and often as earnest as Rik from the Young Ones, till the later issues which became a strange mix of Eurocomix and almost a template for Vertigo(as well as every writer who'd work for them at the start, except Jamie Delano I think). You even got some really weird, cool stuff like REVOLVER, which I think was meant to compete with DEADLINE, home of Tank Girl. and then Robert Maxwell dies a big, fat man's death and his empire is drawn in around him like the event horizon of a black hole. Think Darkseid in FINAL CRISIS. Fleetway, sadly, was part of said empire. Which was why a big deal was made out of ST.SWITHIN'S DAY and TRUE FAITH, you see. It was taken as veiled Maxwell attacks on Thatcher. As opposed to overt ones by writers.But a lot of good stuff there anyway, so much still uncollected. I doubt we'll see a NEW ADVENTURES OF HITLER(which sank one magazine, CUT, before CRISIS) trade anytime soon, sadly.And then there's subjects impossible to get too heavy-handed with, because you cannot beat the reality's horror. One of those would be Cambodia's Khmer Rouge . Now Pol Pot is dead, and the group pretty much splintered to nothing. Then, however, they were still around, just over the Thai border, waiting to return, and supplied by the Red Cross. And they made small visits over the border from time to time to steal food, and terrorize villages. Like this one. (As much as I could post within limits; as with BIBLE JOHN , very hard to choose. Some editing within pages for brevity)Lloyd's gift with moody art that practically bleeds suffocating paranoia and dread is especially well-employed in this, I think, and I also think it reminds me a lot of Kurtzman's war stories.A couple of pages of farming, song and celebration. Then a noise.That second to last panel? Fucking beautiful, isn't it? Anyway, we come to more cuts, but basically there's a lot of speechifying by our Pol Pot wannabe here.If you don't know: one of the groups the KR targeted was anyone wearing glasses. It meant you read, and therefore were an intellectual, like a teacher or a doctor. You would try to save yourself by claiming to be a cab driver.(c)1990 Igor Goldkind & David Lloyd, because Robert Maxwell is dead.Any fellow artists able to tell me what kind of paper Lloyd used here? I want to try it.(PS if interested: This week's LULU.)