2000 AD #1561

Judge Dredd looms large against a bold American flag backdrop on this striking Boo Cook cover for 2000 AD Prog 1561, his Lawgiver raised and that trademark scowl locked in place — every inch the lawman facing a crisis bigger than himself. The "State of Emergency" banner and the tagline asking whether Dredd can find the Mandroid before war is declared set the tension perfectly for the seventh chapter of "Mandroid: Instrument of War," with John Wagner writing and Carl Critchlow on art. Five stories across its pages — including Nikolai Dante, Sinister Dexter, Future Shocks, and Button Man — make this 2007 prog a genuinely satisfying read from cover to last page.