Silo

'Silo' comes from the Greek σιρός or 'siros', meaning 'a pit for holding grain'. However, in Mark Millar's first full-length story for 2000 AD (following a couple of Tharg's Future Shocks) the silo contains not only some atomic warheads but also the ghost of Victorian author Edward Bulwer-Lytton (pictured). Not content with having coined the phrases "the great unwashed" and "the pen is mightier than the sword," he now wants to bring about nuclear armageddon (because missiles are even more powerful than pens). The story was published in progs 706 to 711 and was drawn by Dave D'Antiquis.