[2] After a long run on Modesty Blaise, Romero wanted to create his own original character, and came up with the female heroine Axa.

The strip was characterized by frequent female partial nudity, especially from the title character, and has been called good girl art.

[9] Romero also produced a longer story in full colour which was published in the Spanish magazine Creepy in issues #52-59 (1983-1984) by Toutain Editor, and later collected in the Axa Color Album; this storyline featured full-frontal nudity from the heroine.

[10] Pierce also brokered a deal between Romero and Eclipse to provide new adventures in the comic book format for the American market.

The strip was published in a wide number of other countries, including France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, India and Hong Kong.

She begins a new life as a nomadic adventurer in the outside world, meeting various unusual survivors - including the puritanical Middlemen and hideous Mutants.

She continued to explore, meeting the reclusive survivalist millionaire Hector Arkady, the underwater feminist society of Sea Dome, the intelligent dinosaurs of the Valley of Mists, Mr. Nero the ruler of the City of Hope, zealot Joy Eden, pirates scourging the coastal Fisher People, the tree-dwelling Sky People, the warring Automators and Mechanics of Junkheap, the deformed Morpho and Grots, the Dispensers of Pill City, the telepathic Lix of Galaland and the alien intelligence Erg.