2000 AD #1808

Prog 1808 of 2000 AD delivers one of the more unsettling cover images you'll find on a 2012 newsstand: a figure wearing Judge Dredd's unmistakable helmet and uniform whose face has been replaced — or perhaps revealed — as a wide-open reptilian maw packed with jagged teeth, the cover copy teasing "Judge… Klegg?" with a knowing ellipsis. Edmund Bagwell's pencils and inks make the most of that close-up composition, the creature's textured green skin and gaping jaw filling the frame in genuinely creepy fashion. Inside, Al Ewing and Henry Flint continue "The Cold Deck Part Three," with colors by Chris Blythe and lettering by Annie Parkhouse rounding out a strong creative lineup.