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GLIMMERGlimmer Rats

Created by Gordon Rennie, Mark Harrison

FIRST APPEARANCE IN 2000AD

Glimmer Rats

Glimmer Rats 10 episodes (Progs 1174 to 1182) 60 pages
Script: Gordon Rennie, Artist: Mark Harrison
First episode in 2000AD Prog 2000.
Reprinted
Rebellion: Glimmer Rats

STARRING
Madsen; Kostas; Tannhauser; Keyana; Villa; The Gimp

DATELINE
Near future - within the next 50 years

LOCATION
Munich, capital of the European Federation; The Glimmer, where reality simply doesn't apply

BACKSTORY
The world has divided into a series of ultra-competitive economic blocks, and natural resources are at a premium. Space colonization is still just a dream, but new advances in Quantum Theory have opened up the possibility of parallel universes with infinite resources to plunder. First to develop inter-dimensional technology was the European Federation, a fascist superstate. But the experiment went horribly wrong, creating a rip in reality known as The Breachâ?¦

Through this poured terrifying creatures from a world called The Glimmer - and The Breach cannot be closed. In fact, it's expanding, slowly but surely consuming the Earth. Now troops are being sent through, to try and repair The Breach from the other side. Exiled from a dystopian world to somewhere even worseâ?¦