 The format made no concessions to those who only bought one publication, as the story was entirely linear, with two episodes a fortnight in the weekly "2000 AD" followed by a third episode in the (then) fortnightly "Megazine".The editors attempted to address this problem in the next two crossovers, "Wilderlands" (1994) and "The Doomsday Scenario" (1999), by having two separate plot threads in each story, one in each comic, so that readers who only bought one could still follow the story.This story features some of the first published artwork from Chris Halls, an early pseudonym of the director Chris Cunningham.