Created by Ian Edginton and Steve Pugh, Lyra appears in the 2000AD story Interceptor.
When a gunshot victim is wheeled in to Emergency, demanding attention, Lyra’s life takes a very strange turn. Firstly, her patient turns out not to be human at all and, before he dies, he presses upon her a mysterious object that he insists she keeps safe. Secondly, his gun-toting pursuers appear to be equally alien…