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'''Bill Savage''' is a fictional character in the British comic anthology ''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]]'', which first appeared in the story ''[[Invasion! (2000 AD)|Invasion!]]'' in issues 1–51. He is a resistance fighter in the Free European Army (FEAR) against the [[Volgans]], who invaded and conquered Britain in 1999 during the Eight Hour War. His family include his brother Jack, a pub owner in Birmingham who was apparently killed when the Midlands was nuked; his sister Cassie and her disabled husband Noddie (who was brain damaged by Volgan non-lethal weaponry), who assist in the resistance; and his other brother Tom, a journalist who publicly co-operated with the Volgans.
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In Book 3, Bill is seeking personal vengeance against State Security agents who murdered Tom Savage after discovering he had secretly written stories embarrassing to the regime. Savage and his sister Cassie killed all three the agents believed responsible, only to discover that Savage's former-MI6 resistance contact had been behind it and was secretly a collaborator.
In more recent books, the resistance has defeated the Volgs and driven them out of the British Isles with the help of cyborg billionaire Howard Quartz, owner of the Robusters disaster squad. The story Grinders tells how Bill Savage has relocated to Berlin, which is still under the jackboot of Volgan occupation. Under the assumed identity of a local bar owner, Savage hides in plain sight while picking off the occupying forces as the serial killer The Märze Murderer. His identity is discovered by a female detective working for the Volgan police, but before she can arrest him they are attacked by Terminator-style assassin robots, seemingly from the future. Savage discovers these robots are the product of Volgan research enabled by the Thousand Year Stare, a drug that allows research scientists to condense one thousand years of thinking time into a single hour.
==Bibliography==
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** "Book VII: Secret City" (with Patrick Goddard, in ''2000 AD'' #1740–1749, 2011)
** "Book VIII: Rise Like Lions" (with Patrick Goddard, in ''2000 AD'' #2013 and #1813–1823, 2012–13)
** "Book IX: Grinders" (with Patrick Goddard, in ''2000 AD'' #2015 and #
** "Book X: The Marze Murderer" (with Patrick Goddard, in ''2000 AD'' 2001–2010, 2016)
** "Book XI: The 1000 Year Stare" (with Patrick Goddard, in ''2000 AD'' 2061–2071, 2017–18)
===Collected volumes===
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