Return to Armageddon

Created by writer Malcolm Shaw and artist Jesus Redondo (with Johnny Johnson stepping in on the art for parts 12 & 13), Return to Armageddon was an at times quite horrifying strip which ran in 2000AD #185-218 from September 1980-June 1981 (34 episodes in total). A space pirate named Havoc and his crew abduct two mysterious babies discovered in space by Captain Atlanta Watts, but while one of the twin boys grows into a blonde haired human named Amtrak, his brother becomes a demonic satyr like being called the Destroyer. Suffering numerous complications along the way (such as being transformed into an immortal in unending agony) Amtrak and his companions, the girl Eve and the robot Seeker, eventually defeat the Destroyer before settling on a world which looks suspiciously like an uninhabited Earth, where Amtrak-now predictably renaming himself 'Adam'-and Eve prepare to restart the human race. The whole story is very reminiscent of certain chunks of the Bible, with Adam and Eve's new Garden of Eden even infested with its very own serpent (the last surviving remnant of Havoc's snake haired second-in-command) and it is left seemingly deliberately unclear whether the story takes place in Earth's future, its past, or somehow both!