Judge Dredd #14

Dredd crouches low in battle-ready stance, Lawgiver drawn, with a green-clad armed figure scrambling across crumbling rooftops behind him — all of it crackling under a lightning-split, neon-drenched sky above a decaying Mega-City One. Brendan McCarthy's cover, rendered in a style the artist himself credits as being "after Ditko," gives the whole scene a wonderfully offbeat, kinetic energy that feels both retro and alive. IDW's 2013 run kicks off a new arc with "13 Badges Pt. 1," brought to life interiorly by writer Duane Swierczynski and the multitalented Nelson Dániel handling art, inks, and colors — a solid creative team delivering exactly the kind of street-level tension this cover promises.