Concept: Craig Houston and Stuart Jennett
Writer: Unassigned
Artist: Unassigned
After war devastated the planet, Earth is the Terran Empire’s dumping ground, and not just for chemical and radioactive wastes; for its dissidents, for its mutants, for anything that doesn’t fit in with the way the tyrants want things to be.
Spaceship ‘ports are the only safe places on the planet. From them, mercenaries take huge ‘wagon trains’ of waste out to pre-determined dumping grounds; dumping grounds increasingly further from the safety of the bases and more dangerous to reach.
Those that survive dropping their rubbish in the right place have their pick of anything they find out on the planet along the way (and there’s huge amounts of stuff, including computers, obsolete hand weapons etc.) out there that can be re-sold at a premium on the Border Worlds, where such things are in short supply….
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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