2000 AD #1517

This 2006 issue of 2000 AD leads with a genuinely unsettling cover by Dean Ormston — a decayed, hollow-eyed face looms out of a film strip, its single glowing red eye and bared teeth promising something deeply creepy from the Chiaroscuro story within. The tagline "Silver Scream: Chiaroscuro Reveals Its Celluloid Secrets" sets an atmospheric horror-movie tone that suits Ormston's painterly, shadow-drenched artwork perfectly. Beyond the cover chills, prog 1517 also packs in Judge Dredd's "Origins Part 13: War Babies" by the formidable team of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, alongside Sinister Dexter and The Red Seas — a genuinely packed weekly from one of British comics' most enduring anthologies.