2000 AD #693

Prog 693 of 2000 AD arrives in August 1990 with one of the most unsettling Dredd covers of the year — a battered, grimacing Judge Dredd looms in extreme close-up, his eagle-crested helmet and red-ribboned badge filling the frame against a crumbling, shadow-drenched Mega-City backdrop. Cover artists Mike Hadley's pencils and inks give Dredd a raw, weathered intensity that makes the tagline "Dredd Gets Ugly" feel entirely earned. Inside, John Wagner writes and Carlos Ezquerra both draws and colors Part 20 of the sprawling "Necropolis" saga, with lettering by Tom Frame — a formidable creative team delivering the anthology's weekly dose of future-law at its grittiest.