The fanzine contained comic strips based on various 2000 AD characters and also ran an in-depth interview with writer Alan Moore.
After four issues, Zarjaz was re-launched in 2005 by Colin J. Dinnie under the Underfire Comics banner, with whom he had previously edited the small press anthology Rapid Fire.
Contributors have come both from mainstream comics and the small press and include Alan Grant, PJ Holden, Al Ewing and Arthur Wyatt and has helped showcase for some of the newest generation of 2000 AD writers and artists like Simon Spurrier, Adrian Bamforth and Nick Dyer.
There have also been stories which have been picked up and continued in Zarjaz like Al Ewing's "Bones of Eden", the first issue of which appeared in the 2000 AD Winter Special 2005.
[1] Zarjaz was published twice yearly and sold in comic shops around the UK, including Forbidden Planet,[2] as well as through the internet and mail order.