For a magazine that had such humble beginnings as the zine for TSR UK, Imagine is really developing into something special. However, maybe not so much due to the coverage of D&D but a lot more due to the amount of talent that they can tap to participate in the magazine from the UK talent pool.

In this one we start off immediately with a cover by Bryan Talbot, one of the greatest UK comics creators, both writer and illustrator, who brings his talent both to the cover and to his Luther Arkwright story inside the magazine. If you don’t know Arkwright and Talbot’s work, it’s definitely worth tracking down. 

However this magazine issue also deserves a place in history as it contains the first ever published story by none other than Neil Gaiman, Featherquest: The Tale of the Dreamer, a story with a dream-theme that really points toward some tales in that little known comics and now TV series known as… The freaking Sandman. There’s also an article about insane swords, enchanted D&D weapons with “peculiar” personalities, but honestly in this issue it’s really Talbot and Gaiman that are the highlights.