2000 AD #1519

Hammerstein — the battle-scarred war robot of A.B.C. Warriors fame — dominates this striking 2007 cover by Clint Langley, rendered in extraordinary detail as he strides through a devastated battlefield with one fist blazing and the other raised, all heavy armour plating and glowing red eyes against a ruined warscape. The cover heralds "Mekanised Infantry!" with Hammerstein leading the charge, and inside the prog John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra continue their Judge Dredd epic with "Origins Part 16: Declaration of Independence." Five thrills round out the package — Judge Dredd, Kingdom, A.B.C. Warriors, Stickleback, and Nikolai Dante — making Prog 1519 a genuinely packed Wednesday read.