Doctor Ranulf Tao

Stepping out of the gritty pages of 2000 AD in 1997, Doctor Ranulf Tao is a Modern Age creation from the legendary partnership of writer John Wagner and artist Jason Brashill, born into one of British comics' most celebrated universes. With nine catalogued appearances spread across sixteen years — including turns in Judge Anderson: The Psi Files — he's a compact but persistent presence in the world of Mega-City One, sharing pages with titans like Judge Dredd and Psi Judge Anderson. Characters who orbit that particular corner of 2000 AD tend to inhabit morally complex, high-stakes territory, and Tao is no exception to the neighbourhood. For collectors who love the deeper cuts of the Dreddverse, he's exactly the kind of figure worth hunting down.