2000 AD - March 1986.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon .  *** H ow desperate are you to see really small things? If you're inescapably desperate to do it, the 3rd of March in 1986 was the happiest day of your life. You guessed it. It was the day which saw the publication of the first paper that described the atomic force microscope! I know. I was excited too! Things were, possibly, not quite so thrilling in your local cinema but the month did see the release of such offerings as Highlander , The Care Bears Movie II and Police Academy 3 . On the UK singles chart, March began with the Bee Gees penned Diana Ross toe-tapper Chain Reaction at Number One. However, even the supreme Miss Ross cannot stand in the way of a determined Cliff. And so it was that the month ended with Cliff Richard and the Young Ones ruling supreme, thanks to their revival of Living Doll .  The British album chart, meanwhile, entered March with Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms in top spot before that was forced to make way for  Hits 4 by the 1980s' hottest act  Various Artists . But what of the galaxy's greatest comic ? As so often before, it was giving us a diet of  The Ballad of Halo Jones, Sláine, Ace Trucking Co, Strontium Dog and Tharg's Future-Shocks . Meanwhile, Judge Dredd found himself encountering The Last Voyage of the Flying Dutchman .