P. J. Maybe

P. J. Maybe is a disturbingly cheerful young serial killer who first appeared in the pages of 2000 AD as a Mega-City One resident. Despite his innocent demeanor, he dispatches those who inconvenience him with casual, calculated lethality.

Few villains in the pages of 2000 AD have lingered quite so deliciously in readers' memories as P. J. Maybe, who made his debut in #534 back in 1987, conjured into being by the formidable creative partnership of Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra. Emerging in the Copper Age of comics, this Mega-City One menace has proven remarkably enduring — 89 catalogued appearances stretching nearly four decades across 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine speak to a character who clearly got under the skin of writers and readers alike. He keeps genuinely elite company, sharing the page with Joe Dredd himself, Psi Judge Anderson, Chief Judge Hershey, and other pillars of the Judge Dredd universe, which tells you everything about the weight this character carries in that world. With two collector-recognised key issues to his name and a publication history running all the way to 2026, P. J. Maybe is exactly the kind of deep-cut Thrill-power obsessives point to when they want to show you just how rich and strange Mega-City One truly is.