2000 AD #1738

Judge Dredd looms large on this Prog 1738 cover, leveling a heavy weapon at a grotesque, green-skinned mutant whose monstrous face fills the foreground — while a horde of similarly warped "Veg-Heads" swarms below, promising all-out chaos. The tagline "Aim for the Brain!" captures the gleefully pulpy energy that 2000 AD delivered week after week in 2011, and Cliff Robinson's linework gives Dredd a coiled, no-nonsense authority that perfectly suits the lawman's grim business. Inside, Gordon Rennie and Lee Carter continue "Scream Part Two," so there's plenty more mayhem waiting past this already striking opening shot.