2000 AD #313

From the April 1983 pages of Britain's finest sci-fi weekly comes 2000 AD Prog 313, with a cover by Carlos Ezquerra that drops Judge Dredd into an unsettling situation — the lawman himself is strapped to a stretcher, restrained and being hauled away by med-robots bearing red-cross markings, while a gruff medic looms over him declaring "Get Dredd down to the Psycho-Unit… I think he's cracked up!" A towering robot attendant stands watch in the background, lending the scene an eerie, institutional dread. Inside, Ian Gibson brings "The Slaying of Slade, Part 2" to life, with writing from Grant and Grover and lettering by Steve Potter — a fine creative lineup for a prog that puts Mega-City One's toughest Judge in a deeply uncomfortable spot.