2000 AD #1050

Prog 1050 kicks off a summer packed with four new thrills, and Greg Staples' cover sets the tone perfectly — a looming Judge Dredd grips a bewildered, bespectacled citizen sporting a bandaged nose, the contrast between the imposing lawman and his hapless quarry making for an immediately entertaining image. Inside, Dredd takes on "Mad City" as the cover teases the hunt for the crazed Citizen Fritz Shakespeare, while Anderson, Psi Division promises her deadliest case yet alongside the fantasy of Witch World and the delightfully strange "I Was a Teen Tax Consultant." A generous summer package from 2000 AD in 1997, with Staples handling both the pencils and inks on a cover that's equal parts menacing and darkly comic.