he writes his autobiography Seizing the Fire to pass the time despite his awareness that it will never be published while being visited occasionally by his mocking creations. St. John and Zenith are hunted down, while the other superhumans turn the sun into a huge incubator to power their ascension - showing that their ultimate form is the Lloigor. St. John is finally destroyed in London before Zenith is swallowed by Iok Sokkot, revealed to be the final form of his son. Peyne's de-aging finishes and he blinks out of existence, his book unfinished. The superhuman Lloigor ascend and prepare to dominate the universe, only to be stopped by an invisible barrier. It is revealed that they were trapped inside Chimera by St. John while threatening him at Downing street and everything that has happened since then has taken place within a pocket dimension. There are heavy hints that St. John's motives aren't entirely altruistic and that he is instead following his own subtler grand plan, notably when the popular opposition Labour leader John Smith dies of a heart attack shortly before the election, leading to another Conservative landslide. Zenith seems broadly aware of these machinations but is more interested in the partying lifestyle his pop career gives him - the implication being both will leave the other to their own agenda. zzzzenith.com Originally published in 2000AD Prog 2001 (2000) A one-off strip. In November 2000 Zenith is still a successful pop star and the star of a Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall "hyper-documentary". St. John is still running the country, using vegetative psychiatric patient Tony Blair as a puppet to avoid suspicion. Zenith is aware of the ruse but doesn't care. Britney Spears meanwhile has been sexually assaulted in a London hotel room. One of her fans believes Zenith is responsible and attacks him with a bazooka during a visit to a children's hospital. Zenith survives the attack - though most of the patients and staff are less lucky. The real culprit is Robot Archie, who has become a vicious vigilante after what Zenith calls "brain rust" has set in and escapes on a bus wearing a false beard. Collected editions Zenith was printed as a series of (now out of print) trade paperbacks by Titan Books between 1988 and 1991, with Phases II and III both being split across two volumes. The trades gave the three arcs titles - "Tygers",