2000 AD #818

Judge Dredd fills the cover of this January 1993 prog in striking close-up, his red helmet and eagle shoulder pad gleaming against an eerie green backdrop, while a green-gloved hand holds a smouldering, smoking object tantalizingly close to his jaw — a perfectly composed tease for the headline "Loser by a Nose!" John Higgins delivers the cover art with rich, painterly colour work that makes Dredd's chiselled profile genuinely arresting. Inside, G. Ennis and Higgins team up on "Ex-Men," promising the kind of sharp Mega-City storytelling that kept 2000 AD essential weekly reading in 1993.