2000 AD #2318

The cover of prog 2318 makes an immediate impression: Judge Dredd, helmet gleaming and Lawgiver raised, is caught in the crushing grip of an enormous, snarling beast with wild hair and red-tinged eyes — the tagline "Hag Team! Crush Hour for Dredd?" teasing the predicament within. Toby Willsmer's pencils and inks render the confrontation with visceral energy, the creature's drooling maw looming over a defiant Dredd who looks very much outmatched in size but not in attitude. Inside, writer-artist Cat Sullivan takes sole creative charge of "The Hagger They Fall, Part 02," making this a compellingly personal vision in 2000 AD's ongoing anthology tradition.