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Humans in space, policing, conspiracies and horror. This sci-fi thriller has it all.

Living On The Brink

Set in a 21st century that has seen humanity evacuate to the stars after the Earth has become a wasteland ( due to environmental catastrophes and industrial damage), Brink sees the human race living on artificial habitats in space.

These habitats have different communities and sects crammed together with limited space, and surviving off synthetic foods and drugs (synth and nudge) in an environment controlled by corporations, and policed by private security firms.

Bridget Kurtis is an investigator with the Habitat Security Division and the series picks up with an investigation into a new sect of cultists.

Review

Brink volume 1 (Brink) introduces us to Kurtis, humanities space station habitats, and the horror of a group of cultists worshipping an alien god. The art shows the tight spacing of the internals of over populated habitats, which offer city like districts of neon lights and high rises. Each character and their emotions are captured with facial expressions that help pull the reader further into the story.

No thought bubbles and the I like the information graphic pop ups to explain who someone is, the habitat name or a ships name, etc. The no thought bubbles works great alongside the dialogue characters have, speech does not feel forced and each character has their own way of feeling grounded even though this is a sci-fi space story.

Although it is set in the future, on habitats, it still connects with some of the grind of regular human life and that is part of the stories magic in volume 1.

Publication

Brink is published as one of the stories in 2000AD, a weekly anthology comic. 2000AD refers to its issues as ‘progs’. I’ll list the progs, with the years they saw publish in brackets.

Brink had a run in progs 1978 – 1992 (2016), 2023 – 2040 (2017), 2100 – 2118 (2018/2019), 2150 – 2169 (2019/2020), 2270 – 2295 (2022), and it’s current run, “The Call of the Void”, 2472 – ? (2026).

Brink is written by Dan Abnett with art by INJ Culbard.

Brink Trade Paperbacks (TPBs)

If you’ve missed Brink in its episodic format as its published in 2000AD, then the trade paperbacks (physical or digital) are available from 2000ad.com:

• Book One (Brink)
• Book Two (Skeleton Life)
• Book Three (High Society)
• Book Four (Hate Box)
• Book Five (Mercury Retrograde)
• Book Six (Consumed)

Brink Audio Book

2000AD teamed up with Penguin to produce a full cast audio version of Brink Volumes 1-3. It’s available on multiple audio sites (e.g. Audible, Apple, Google) or direct from Penguin.

In Orbit Every Wednesday (2026)

Molch-R (Michael Molcher) and KLO-E (Chloe Maveal) discuss the current run (spring / summer 2026) of Brink with Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard, for 11th March 2026’s “In Orbit Every Wednesday:

2000AD @ 45 Discussion (2022)

Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard discussed Brink with Tom Shapira as part of ‘2000AD at 45‘ (2022):