YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MUTIE DOWN! Johnny Alpha – the mutant bounty hunter with the X-ray eyes – has been given his toughest job to date. The mutant underground have kidnapped King Clarkie The Second and the British government want Alpha to secure his release. Finding himself working for the norms, Johnny must venture deep into the mutant ghetto and deep into his own past. As Johnny unravels a plot to start a new war with the mutants he must ask himself the toughest question. In order to save his own kind can Johnny Alpha betray them? Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence) with art by Carlos Ezquerra (Preacher), this Thrill-packed tome brings you 2000 AD at its very best! Collects: \- The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha (Progs #1689–#1699) \- The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: The Project (Prog #2012, progs #1764–#1771) \- What If...? Max Bubba Hadn't Killed Wulf (Prog #1772)

It has been mere months since Viking Wulf Sternhammer returned to the 22nd century with Search/Destroy agent Johnny Alpha, and the legendary partnership they forged is in its infancy. Sternhammer knows nothing of Alpha’s past, and is still getting used to the everyday prejudice that mutants suffer at the hands of the norms. When they are approached on the Doghouse by a grieving parent who lost her daughter in a shuttle explosion and tasked with finding her missing husband, their search will take them to an Earth colony divided by bigotry and tumbling into chaos...