2000 AD #1749

This 2011 prog from Rebellion announces an "Emergency Code Red – Judge Down!" in bold red type, setting an urgent, unsettling tone before you've even cracked the spine. Garry Brown's cover art is a raw, painterly composition of smeared reds and oranges, with a battered, star-studded Judge's badge crashing through the frame amid what reads like blood-spattered wreckage. It's a striking, visceral piece of design that perfectly frames the tension promised inside by John Wagner's "Day of Chaos: Nadia Part Seven.