2000 AD #496

Prog 496 of 2000 AD (15 November 1986) serves up one of the year's cheekiest covers, with Judge Dredd standing stoically before a re-imagined Statue of Liberty — her torch replaced by a Lawgiver, and a stack of law books chained at her side — beneath the sardonic tagline "Give me your perps, your muties, your psychos…" The story title "The Statutes of Liberty" says it all, and Cliff Robinson's cover art wrings every drop of satirical wit from the mashup of American iconography and Mega-City One jurisprudence. Inside, writer MacManus and artist Steve Dillon continue "The Hit Man, Part 2: Beam Me Up!" — a fine reason to track down this slice of mid-eighties British comics at their most irreverent.