2000 AD #1009

A Judge's badge — bullet-pierced, bloodied, and gleaming gold against a dark background — dominates this striking 1996 cover from 2000 AD Prog #1009, with the blunt tagline "Death of a Legend" daring you to flip to the interior. Mark Harrison's painted cover work makes the iconic shield feel genuinely weighty and ominous, with that dark, smoke-ringed impact hole and trailing streak of red doing plenty of storytelling on their own. Inside, Pat Mills and Dermot Power continue "The Treasures of Britain" — and whoever's legend is on the line, the cover makes clear the stakes couldn't feel higher.