Judge Dredd #16

Judge Dredd crouches in a tight alley corner, gold armor gleaming, with his Lawgiver drawn as a crowd of rough-looking characters — armed and dangerous — closes in on him from all sides in this 1995 DC installment. The cover tagline "Up Against the Wall!" perfectly captures the tense standoff rendered by cover artist Mike S. Miller, with scattered debris and a battered brick wall setting the gritty Mega-City One atmosphere. With Priest writing and Rik Levins on interior art, issue #16 promises the kind of street-level tension that makes Dredd such a compelling character.