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The protagonist of the strip was Blue, a 'button man' for the city: "Look on me as a kind of trouble shooter — anybody starts trouble, I shoot 'em." Blue was unshaven, scarred and heavily armed, with a furrowed brow and hair that looked like it hadn't been combed for a month — your typical 'tough guy' anti-hero (who also happened to collect watches). He had a fondness for Jack Daniels and gourmet cheese. As the story opened he discovered that all the 'Class A' citizens had left the dome, and that the news being broadcast was solely repeats. He also started getting bad headaches, a sign that his programming was beginning to fail. Blue went to the library and found out that the Class A citizens had left the Class Bs to "share Bad City's doom," and that he and the other button men were being

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  • The protagonist of the strip was Blue, a 'button man' for the city: "Look on me as a kind of trouble shooter — anybody starts trouble, I shoot 'em." Blue was unshaven, scarred and heavily armed, with a furrowed brow and hair that looked like it hadn't been combed for a month — your typical 'tough guy' anti-hero (who also happened to collect watches). He had a fondness for Jack Daniels and gourmet cheese. As the story opened he discovered that all the 'Class A' citizens had left the dome, and that the news being broadcast was solely repeats. He also started getting bad headaches, a sign that his programming was beginning to fail. Blue went to the library and found out that the Class A citizens had left the Class Bs to "share Bad City's doom," and that he and the other button men were being
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  • The protagonist of the strip was Blue, a 'button man' for the city: "Look on me as a kind of trouble shooter — anybody starts trouble, I shoot 'em." Blue was unshaven, scarred and heavily armed, with a furrowed brow and hair that looked like it hadn't been combed for a month — your typical 'tough guy' anti-hero (who also happened to collect watches). He had a fondness for Jack Daniels and gourmet cheese. As the story opened he discovered that all the 'Class A' citizens had left the dome, and that the news being broadcast was solely repeats. He also started getting bad headaches, a sign that his programming was beginning to fail. Blue went to the library and found out that the Class A citizens had left the Class Bs to "share Bad City's doom," and that he and the other button men were being directed only by robots. Some button men turned up to eliminate him, but he escaped from them down the inter-dome tubes into 'Jung-Dome', which contained a tropical forest. Kindly strangers removed the 'button' from his head, causing him to revert to a primitive, animalistic state — that of the gang member he had been before the city reprogrammed him. An elderly scientist explained that on its present course the city was destined to be "sucked into the vortex of a black hole." The only way to save it was to travel through the slums to the city's engine chambers and fire all the boosters at once, allowing the city to break free. Blue, in his pidgin English, volunteered for the job. The scientist then explained that he was Supreme Engineer Bader, who had designed the city but had come to hate it and see death as a blessing. When Blue asked him why he wanted to save the city, he said, "I don't know." Blue made it to the engine chambers and fired the boosters, but they didn't have enough power in them to change the city's course. Blue resolved to be "Big Chief-Boss... Top scummer" of the city in whatever time it had left. The series ended in prog 477, in July 1986, with a full-page picture of the city being eaten by the black hole, captioned "Bad city blew!" It was possibly the bleakest tale of urban decay ever told in 2000 AD, and certainly did a fine job of subverting the readers' expectations. File:2000 AD prog 470 cover.jpg
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