Go-Machine is a comic strip that appeared in 2000AD

2000 AD (comic)

2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold...

. It was created by writer Al Ewing

Al Ewing

Al Ewing is a British comics writer who has mainly worked in the small press and for 2000 AD.-Biography:Al Ewing began his career writing stories in the five-page Future Shocks format for 2000AD...

 and artist Richard Elson

Richard Elson

Richard Elson is a British comic book artist best known for his work on Sonic the Comic, 2000 AD and Thor.-Biography:Richard Elson is a fine art graduate with over sixteen years experience as a cartoonist and illustrator....

.

Characters

• Mikel Keller & his unnamed wife
  Wife
  A wife is a female partner in a marriage. The rights and obligations of the wife regarding her spouse and others, and her status in the community and in law, varies between cultures and has varied over time.-Origin and etymology:...
  
  
• The Central Directorate

Plot

In the near future cybernetic implants are blurring the line between humans and robots. The story follows a participant in brutal cage fights between cyborgs who reaches the point where he crosses the line between man and machine and becomes part of the robotic underclass. Mikel betrays the human race

Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

 and launces a coup

Coup d'état

A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

 wiping out the "core members" and declaring himself the new leader.

Central Directorate

The Central Directorate is the ruling class in the unnamed city. They despise cyborg

Cyborg

A cyborg is a being with both biological and artificial parts. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S...

s and use them to fight in the Go-Machine tournament.
Members include:

• The Central Director
• Anton Smythe - Assistant to the Central Director
• Ken & Brian - Go-Machine announcers

External links

• 2000 AD profile