The 2000 AD ABC #106: The Dead

Created by Peter Milligan and Massimo Belardinelli, The Dead was a philosophically psychedelic set in the far future where, thanks to a cure for sickness and ageing, a highly-evolved human race believes it has conquered death itself – only to be proved wrong when demons suddenly start erupting from their bodies and mortality again becomes a profound threat. After inadvertently defeating a demon, a nihilistic ‘subversive’ called Fludd is deliberately killed so he can be sent to the land of the dead to discover where these demons come from and whether ever-lasting life can be made possible again…

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