2000 AD #514

From the cover by Steve Dillon, Judge Dredd faces down a turbaned, genie-like figure rising from a smoking cauldron, the exchange between them summed up perfectly in two speech bubbles: "Three wishes, master?" meets "Three years, creep!" — a deadpan punchline that captures Dredd's no-nonsense approach to even the most fantastical criminals. The story header "Criminal Genius: Dredd Breaks the Spell" sets an entertaining tone for this March 1987 prog. Inside, Pete Milligan and artist Ewins continue "Bad Company" with inks by J. McCarthy and lettering by Tom Frame, making Prog 514 a fine slice of weekly British comics at their most inventive.