2000 AD #497

The cover of Prog 497, dated 22 November 1986, belongs to Kevin O'Neill, whose linework conjures a hulking, monstrous brute — massively muscled, bestial-faced, and bristling with chains and mechanical claws — dominating every inch of the image under the sardonic banner "Bored? Depressed? Doing Time? Escape Into the Future!" It's a perfectly pitched piece of menace tied to the "Iso-Cube 13" feature, with O'Neill's characteristically dense, grotesque detail making the creature feel genuinely threatening. Inside, the Judge Dredd universe continues with Steve Dillon on art and the writing team of Geller and MacManus delivering Part 3 of "The Hit Man.