Strange Days was the collective comic genepool of Peter Milligan, Brendan McCarthy and Brett Ewins.
It appeared as a three issue mini series between 1984 and 1985 and featured three eight page strips, the psychic seaweed induced 'Freak Wave', 30th century London's hardest Private Detective 'Johnny Nemo' and finally the beer-swigging superhero slob 'Paradax'

Brendan McCarthy:
"Strange Days appeared in 1984 and is now something of a cult classic. It was a bit sickening that it never got picked up by the so-called 'hip' comic scenrs in the field and it certainly had an influence on the subsequent direction that some comics have taken. I think, along with a few other comics that came out of that pre-Dark Knight independent scene, it paved the way, and showed that you could be as intelligent as you wanted to be in your work. Obviously, this is a personal opinion, but I think that on a conceptual level, the sum total of what was in Strange Days, in terms of ideas and technique has rarely been surpassed. It was enormously influential and struck a mighty blow for the artistic freedom of the medium, to me, it is like the Roxy Music of comics.

Although Strange Days was put together in 1983 I think it still holds up, even though some aspects of it are starting to date. I just think of the amount of original thought that was put into the comic. And I don't, on a very basic level, see much more addition to be gleaned from studying the outside comic world and it's, still, strangely inverted obsessions. Just the other day I was watching some TV show on Mark Chapman the guy who shot Lennon. That really brought back my feelings on that whole subject, and gave me some more understanding into Strange Days. The title of Strange Days came from the Lennon song 'Strange Days Indeed', it was a direct plugging into the whole psychic fracture that occurred world-media-wide when he was murdered. It was, we hoped, a strangely familiar title that played with the comic cliche of "Strange........" Y'Know, "Strange Adventures", "Strange Worlds" etc... The word 'Strange' is in itself part of comic book terminology. What we found exciting was putting a word like 'Days' after it. It was a new word for comics generally, in terms of titles that is "Strange Days"... it has the, familiarity of 'Strange' but it's coupled with the oddness of the word 'days' in the title, and to me, it still sounds potent.

It's so funny thinking back on all that time.. the very first page of Strange Days was a picture of Lennon watching Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by a sort of 'Abe Lincoln BikerCowboy', with the phrase "All of the people. All of the time.", run over the top as a banner. It was a way of warning people that the material they were about to see wasn't just another bunch of old nonsense, but something to be viewed in a certain light... deeper currents were at work under the surface, currents that, in real and true fact, shape the way we live and shape the course of history.

Your attention was being activated towards the symmetry of 'Ruby shoots Oswald', transformed into a sicko 'Mickey-Oswald' witnessed by Lennon /in place of the original sherrif in the original news photo.) I mean, it is meant to function on a multi-meaning level; as to my mind, most successful Art does. R's still words and pictures and it's still printed in a comic book. Words and pictures...Banner and illustration. Non-narrative but still potent, still powerful. There's room in all this direction for comics to grow somewhere else.

Those one page strips (Krazy Foam, 4th Dimension, Tales from Eutopia) that ran between the three main stories were seen as inserts to pull your mind away from the strip you'd just finished reading, so that you would be ready to read the next strip in a way that wasn't influenced by the strip ~ you'd read before. Those strange little end bits on Beatle records, y'know, the end of Strawberry Relds as a prime example. Those pages in Strange Days were meant to be like them in a way. Peculiar little non-sequitars that influence the whole piece in a way that is disproportionate to their size. The comic opened on one of them, the Mickey-Oswald-Lennon Assassination picture and closed on one, the Lion of England Egyptian parable in the third issue. Wouldn't it be nice to eventually publish a collection of all those little bits as a one-off comic? "Strange Days: The Bits". A sort of apocrypha to the main body of work."