2000 AD #68

In "Cousin George, Part 4: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil," Tramp Gimpy teams up with The Three to track down Zero, who’s been coerced into performing in the bizarre stage show of stuntman Cousin George—a situation that’s far stranger than it first appears. The mission takes a surreal turn as the trio navigates a world where silence, sight, and speech are no longer what they seem.

In "Garden of Eden, Part 2," Dare finds himself on a strange, uncharted world where a community of pilgrims lives under the shadow of a forgotten past—descendants of those brought there in 1621. After fending off a brutal Vrakk assault, the weary survivors are finally beginning to rest when Johannsen stumbles in, shaken and silent, his arrival throwing their fragile peace into uncertainty.

In "The Cursed Earth, Part 8: The Sleeper Awakes," Bob Booth—last president of the USA—wakes from a century of suspended animation, only to be mistaken for a vampire by a band of hillbillies. When Judge Dredd arrives, he reveals Booth’s true past and sentences him to life in the wasteland, turning the former leader into a reluctant guide for the outlaws reclaiming the badlands.

In the frozen ruins of a dead world, Lorna and Mike are guided to safety by gentle, telepathic beings as a blizzard rages. The scattered survivors reunite, their fragile hope tested the next day when a mysterious figure in black appears—silent, enigmatic—and draws a colonist’s child away into the storm.

In the brutal heat of the cup match between the Hellcats and the Freaks, Clay faces off against the vicious Artie Gruber, a man whose rage has no limits. As the crowd watches in stunned silence, Gruber gains the upper hand, cornering Clay before dousing him in petrol—leaving the outcome hanging in the flames.