Created by John Wagner and originally drawn by Bill Ward and Brian Bolland, Spikes Harvey Rotten appears in the 2000AD series: Judge Dredd.
Spikes originally appearing in a two-part Dredd story – The Mega-City 5000 (about a group of biking thugs staging their own illegal race across the mega-city).
An overweight and hirsute biker, he is apprehended by Dredd and the original Judge Giant at the end of the story, but re-appears twenty issues later, thinner (and not quite so hairy) when he accompanies Dredd on his quest across the Cursed Earth to save Mega-City Two from a killer virus.
On the way he befriends the alien Tweak, who promises him riches beyond his wildest dreams. A kindness on Tweak’s part, he can see the future and knows that Spike will die before the journey’s end…