Titus Defoe is a comics character in an eponymous story published in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD. He was created by writer Pat Mills and artist Leigh Gallagher and first appeared in prog 1540, cover date 6 June 2007. Defoe is a zombie hunter in an alternative 17th Century London overrun by plagues of zombies after a comet struck England in 1666. Defoe and his companions keep the undead plagues at bay using weapons devised by the likes of Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. Characters The King's Men Titus Defoe – Zombie Hunter General Fear-The-Lord Jones – An earnest young reporter who befriended Defoe. Sir Isaac Newton Robert Hooke If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Wouldst-Be-Damned Jones – Brother of Fear-The-Lord, and a British espionage agent. Sir Joseph Williamson – 'Provost', Damned's spymaster and head of the Secret Service Gabriel Grubb – Isaac Newton's dogsbody and former chief warden of Bedlam Aphra Behn – Poet, writer, British espionage agent and sometime lover of Damned Jones The Vizards – A group of young men and women with aetheric powers of flight and strength, their identities a secret – but believed to include Judge Jeffreys and Nell Gwynn. Mortal enemies of the Diabolonians The Dirty Dozenne The Crown's zombie slayers: Mister Bodie – Aether marine, veteran of Medway and Lowestoft and former pressganger Martha Hopkins – Witchfinder, widow of Matthew Hopkins and second in command of the Brethren Nathaniel Strange – A Winged Hussar, formerly a road knight Frenchy – Henri Sanson, Monsieur the Connoisseur, a French cannibal She-Napper - A former brothel madam Captain Queernabs - New Model Army veteran Blueskin Blake Russia Bob Former members – Mungo Gallowgrass – Anatomist and necrophiliac The Spiriter – Silas Scrimgeour, child-catcher – see The Undead The Tomb Rat – Ezreel Tonge, ranter, lives in a tomb and frequently speaks in tongues. Solomon Eagle – A phlogiston weapon specialist and New Model Army veteran. The Butcher – Josiah Creely, the 'Butcher of Soho' Jack Ketch – The infamous hangman The Bishop – The Reverend Theophilus Forrest, former Bishop of the Cells at Newgate Prison Tomazine Scarlet – 'The Sea Wolf'. Irish Pirate, lover of Charles Vane, spared the gallows after pleading her belly The Undead Mene Tekel, later revealed as infamous occultist Johann Faust – The power behind the undead hordes La Voisin – Countess Madalena Von Konigsberg, also known as 'Prussian Blue'. Mene Tekel's second in