The Dead

"He was conscious, though conscious of nothing. He was, but did not know who or what he was. He had eyes, so he opened them. The silence clung like sweat. His blood turned to steam, his skin withered around a skeleton of dust. But there was no pain, only silence. He thought: 'My name is Fludd.' A good name, but there must be more. He searched the silence. The silence, though, was inside him, was the vacuum left by his memories — which now returned, slowly, drop by drop. He was Fludd. Yes. He was a man. Yes. He lived on a planet called Earth. Yes. He was two and a half thousand years old... and so was everyone else."

The Dead was a strip by Peter Milligan and Massimo Belardinelli which ran in 2000 AD from prog 510 (February 1987) to prog 519 (April 1987). It is thousands of years in the future. A cure for sickness, ageing and death itself has been discovered. But now a 'subversive' called Fludd must be deliberately killed so that he can be sent to the land of the dead to discover why demons are bursting out of people's bodies.