16: Chimera Unbound - 2000AD prog 605

London: February 11, 1988: The shape-shifting thing is Chimera: “I am thought, unencumbered by the tyranny of form.” It has come to Zenith because it was Zenith that released it from imprisonment, where it was “locked into one tormented shape for forty-three years.” Now Chimera wants to explore every shape possible: starting with Zenith’s appearance, it then turns into the flat, then the street, the city, the country the continent the planet solar-system galaxy universe expanding bigger and bigger until...

When Zenith opens his eyes his flat is back to normal; all that is left is tall glittering glass pyramid. He picks it up. He also picks up the telephone, which still has Eddie on the other end: “Eddie? You want to hear something weird?

Cover art by Steve Yeowell