Favourite Comics Moments #3 - Judge Dredd

This was probably the first moment I remember thinking "that is *so* cool" to myself with regards something I read in a comic. It is from 2000AD prog 227, published in 1981, and features everyone's favourite fascist, Judge Dredd.

Years before the Batman became really grim & dark, John Wagner was doing it with Dredd and managing to do it with a wonderfully dark sense of humour too.

To give you the background, the Dark Judges (basically the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse) are taking over Mega-City One and one of them - Judge Fear - terrifies people to death this way:

But when Fear tries his schtick with JD:

Whenever I think of Dredd, I picture him drawn by Brian Bolland, largely because of this sequence.