2000 AD #552

Judge Dredd crouches in a storm of crackling lightning bolts, fists poised and armored uniform rendered in vivid greens and golds, while a looming ghostly figure hovers ominously in the smoke behind him — John Higgins's cover art for Prog 552 crackles with menace. Inside, Pete Milligan and artist Ewins continue "The Bewilderness" with inks by J. McCarthy and lettering by Tom Frame. A fine slice of British comics from December 1987, when 2000 AD was reliably delivering some of the most inventive sci-fi action on the stands.