2000 AD - September 1985.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon .  *** W ho knows what lurks at the bottom of the ocean? In September 1985,  Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel shed at least a little light upon that subject when they discovered the wreck of the Titanic, thanks to the technology of side-scan sonar. While they were doing that; far above the surface, the cinemas of the world were serving up such treats as After Hours ,   Death of a Salesman ,  Agnes of God and Invasion USA . As far as I can recall,  After Hours is the only one of those films I've seen. Therefore, I shall vote for it as my favourite of that pick. Not necessarily a favourite of mine was David Bowie and Mick Jagger's Live Aid cover of Dancing in the Street . But, clearly, I was alone in my doubts as, that very September, it soared to the top of the UK singles chart where it remained for most of the month. Once there, it seemed to spend all its time fending off the challenge of Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For a Hero . Tragically, Bonnie's track never did make it to Number One and when that duet was finally conquered, it was felled, instead, by Midge Ure's rather less intense  If I Was . Over on the British album chart, the month kicked off with Now That's What I Call Music 5 in top slot before that was usurped by Madonna's Like a Virgin . But then even Madge herself had to make way for the dramatic entry, at Number One, of Kate Bush's comeback LP that the world - and Kate Bush - knew as  Hounds of Love .  When it came to the galaxy's greatest comic , that publication was giving us, as it so often did, Sláine, Tharg's Future-Shocks, Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd and  Ace Trucking Co . But it also saw the returns of Nemesis the Warlock and Sam Slade: Robo-Hunter , with Prog 436 even including a two-part feature dedicated to Satanus the dinosaur. And, what was this? Prog 437 featured a brand new strip starring  The Mean Team who, judging by that cover, look like very determined characters.  And there was even more to get excited about because  Prog 435 was giving away walkie talkies, which meant that, at last, we could communicate at great distances! Truly, the future was well and truly here.