Northern Lightz was a Scottish adult humour underground comic

Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...

 that ran from 1999 to 2005. Primarily based around drug humour, the title featured underground cartoonists Dave Alexander, Pudsy, Jim Stewart, Jamie Grant John Miller and many others, and could be seen as a partial successor to Electric Soup

Electric Soup

Electric Soup is the title of a Scottish underground comic book series which was first published in 1989, and ran until 1992.The title was an anthology title with its most notable strip being The Greens, which was written and drawn by Frank Quitely...

. Later issues were under the editorship of Alan Grant (writer). After 11 issues, the comic ceased publication in 2005, succeeded by Grants highstreet dope humour title Wasted

Wasted (Scottish comic)

Wasted was a Scottish adult humour comic devised by Alan_Grant_. It was designed as a more polished, high street distributed successor to the earlier title Northern Lightz, while retaining the previous comics broad drug humour. While many of the artists and characters from Northern Lightz continued...

in 2008.