Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible was a strip by Nick Abadzis, John Ridgway and Gina Hart, published in 2000 AD progs 975 to 979. Alec Perry became a private detective after his daughter Sally vanished without trace, causing the break-up of his marriage. Now he's looking for another missing girl, Jenny Randall, the disciple of a mysterious 'religion' called Paradise Promised. Perry will encounter mysterious otherworldly forces in his quest for the truth, but he himself is not a man to be trifled with...

The story's title is a reference to Milton's description of Hell in Paradise Lost:

"A dungeon horrible, on all sides round

As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames

No light, but rather darkness visible

Served only to discover sights of woe,

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades where peace

And rest can never dwell, hope never comes

That comes to all; but torture without end..."