Judge Dredd the Megazine #4

A tide of eerie blue-green undead figures surges across Dean Ormston's cover for this June 1992 issue of Judge Dredd: The Megazine, dominated by a snarling, skeletal creature with clawed hands raised wide against a blood-red sky crackling with lightning — while a helmeted Judge on a motorcycle holds the line in the background. The bold tagline "Dawn of the Dead!" sets an unmistakably apocalyptic tone, teasing the "Judgement Day" storyline written by Garth Ennis and John Wagner within. Ormston's painted artwork brings a genuinely unsettling menace to Mega-City One's world, making this fortnightly issue a compelling snapshot of early-'90s British comics at their grimly imaginative best.