Silo was Mark Millar's first full-length story for 2000 AD, published in progs 706 to 711 and drawn by Dave D'Antiquis. Two American soldiers, old friends, are chewing the fat in a deserted missile silo in Scotland. Jim, who has been typing away industriously, gets up to go to the toilet. His pal Ted goes to the typewriter to see what he has been writing, and sees nothing but page after page reading: BLACK SNOW WILL FALL FOREVER. BLACK SNOW WILL FALL FOREVER. BLACK SNOW WILL FALL FOREVER.
It turns out that the silo is haunted by the ghost of an insane writer who wants to end the world because he thinks that all humans are pathetic insects. It is, in fact, Edward Bulwer Lytton, today best known for writing a novel that begins, "It was a dark and stormy night" (which it is, in Silo), and for being the author of the sentence, "The pen is mightier than the sword." Now he has possessed the body of Jim. Bullets can't stop him, and he's hunting Ted through the darkened corridors, in order to force him to turn the second key that will make the missiles fly. The story is extremely violent and contains a disturbingly realistic description of the hapless Ted walking barefoot over broken glass: "My feet feel raw. So wet and raw. Pain. Like knives. Like nails. So slippy. Got to get upstairs. Phone for help." In the end Ted foils the revenant's plan by committing suicide and the world's pathetic insects live on, untouched by nuclear armageddon.
In prog 719 reader John Pettigrew described Silo as "a brilliant mini-epic... I enjoyed this story which could easily sit on the same shelf as Stephen King's books. Dave D'Antiquis' dynamic art really complemented Mark Millar's tense thriller."