"2000 AD Regened" was an occasional thing in 2018-23. 2000 AD wanted to attract younger readers. They'd do quarterly issues where the stories were lighter, less violent and suitable for all ages. Judge Dredd was replaced by Cadet Dredd and so on.

This seems like a reasonable idea. Magazines always need fresh readers and apparently the Regened issues sold better. You can't rely forever on old-timers who remember the 1970s/80s. Unfortunately, those long-term readers weren't particularly keen on Regened and the idea ended up getting dropped. Frankly, it should have been a separate magazine, but that would have been a scary, expensive gamble in the moribund UK comics industry. There were 17 Regened issues:

Pandora Perfect was a popular Regened strip, also getting a run in the main magazine. (Others managing this included Full-Tilt Boogie and Enemy Earth.) I didn't know any of this on buying it, though, because I chose it at random while chatting to Roger Langridge at a comics convention. He had the collected volume on his stall.

Pandora Perfect is a very 2000 AD character, despite the Regened gimmick. She's a thief. Not a noble Robin Hood or anything even remotely altruistic, but a brazen crook who never stops stealing, backstabbing her own clients, getting rightly thrown in prison, etc. Her sidekick is Gort, a robot she's upgraded to be able to hurt people. Her gimmick is that her costume and props are reminiscent of Mary Poppins. The only point in her favour is that she says, "I only fleece those who already have plenty." It's true that she has the morals of a sewer rat, but the strip's supporting characters are often similarly dodgy, despicable or outright villainous.

Its four stories are:

Pandora becomes a nanny and infiltrates the house of Pollux Caster, C.E.O. of the Castoria Security Corporation. She's escaped from prison and she needs to steal a universal key to get an explosive shackle off her ankle. The comedy comes from Pollux's children being equally dodgy scumbags, while other amusing things include the "cloud of butterflies" gun and the toaster.

Pandora burgles Sir Dennis Allanborough, half-senile conservationist and wildlife lover. This is a goofy SF version of Sir David Attenborough, who in real life just celebrated his 100th birthday and yet is still doing commentaries. I saw his exhibition at the National History Museum. Wow. Mark Gatiss called him "the voice of God". This is Pandora's dodgiest caper because we have the most sympathy for her victim, but the job goes explosively wrong and this version of the great man is quite funny.

The longest and most inventive of these stories, with a twisty, ferociously paced plot full of backstabbing and cool SF ideas. The funniest moment was Bartleby Spugg's facial expression while complaining that workers had consciences.

The second story of Pandora unwisely getting involved with fauna. Everything goes amusingly wrong again.

Roger Langridge only wrote this one, but I didn't realise when I bought it. Brett Parson (best known for Tank Girl) is a cartoonist and his work's so full of life, comedy and wild character designs that on first glance I'd assumed this book was also drawn by Langridge. (That's a huge compliment.) There's tons of personality and this book wouldn't be even half as memorable without Brett Parson's talent.

Do I love this series? Nope. It's having lots of fun with its villain protagonist, but she's still villainous and I don't really like her. I was happy when she went to jail. Nonetheless, this series is undeniably full of life, ideas and character. Langridge and Parson did excellent work.