2000 AD #1649

Mega-City One's Justice Department is "Under New Management," and this 2009 prog from Rebellion captures that unsettling shift in a richly detailed cover by Pye — a sprawling cityscape of towering robots, bustling streets, and hovering craft dominates the scene while a grim-faced Judge Dredd looks on from the foreground, dwarfed by the sheer mechanical enormity around him. The bold headline "Hail to the Chief!" alongside the breaking-news ticker declaring the Justice Department under new management raises the intriguing question printed right on the cover: will Dredd be part of this new era? It's the kind of premise that makes flipping to the interior feel genuinely urgent.