2000 AD #1546

This 2000 AD prog from 2007 opens with a striking Colin MacNeil cover that sets an immediately unsettling tone — a looming Judge Dredd figure peers down from behind a barbed-wire fence, while a group of pallid, hollow-eyed Cursed Earth mutants in striped clothing stand confined on the other side, a bright "Bio Hazard" warning sign planted ominously among them. The cover tagline "Law Crimes: Dark Deeds at the Cursed Earth Mutant Camp" speaks to the grim territory John Wagner's story "The Facility" is willing to explore. With Wagner writing and MacNeil handling both pencils and inks — his art rendered in that brooding, painterly style — this prog promises exactly the kind of morally charged Judge Dredd storytelling the anthology does so well.