Eagle was relaunched in issue 79, dated 24 September 1983, with all the photo-based strips either replaced or changed to drawn format. The strip, now called simply 'Doomlord', continued, and would run as a continuous saga until issue 395 in 1989. Initially pencilled by Gary Compton and inked by Heinzl (until August 1984), and later for a more extensive period pencilled and inked by Eric Bradbury, the strip was now unrestricted by budget or special effects constraints – the first page shows Vek warping into a bird and observing a road crash from aloft.