2000AD - Nemesis the Warlock 2

>>54185940
Frankly, with this comic book being what it is, it's a small miracle the xenos races in 40k turned out half as unlikeable as they did.

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Old thread with book one and two here >>54166975. It also has links to previous threads with Sinister Dexter and various Dark Judge tales

This scan is from the original 1980s progs isn't the best I'm afraid but we should be able to muddle through.

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Back in the day British comics like 2000AD could typically only afford to have two colour pages. In the Prog's case this was usually given to Dredd, but reader favourites like Nemesis sometimes got the honours. The Complete Collection print run has has to do them in black and white, unfortunately, but at least its crisp.

>>54185994
Keep your eye out for more titanic borrowings coming up.

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>>54185940
>>54186052

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Fabulous 80s hair. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

>>54186097
>posting images in a storytime

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I love everything about these pages.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKY--qaHWSw

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KHAOS WIZARDS! NO SENSE OF RIGHT OR WRONG!

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>>54186281
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>>54186316
How are these supposed to be the good guys?

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>Brother Kevin

Kevin O'Neill is the co-creator of Nemesis and the ABC Warriors, and the artist for this book. He got a lot of stick at the time for not being as fast to complete pages as some of his peers, mainly because of the ridiculous amount of detail he'd put into each page. He also started the trend of getting artist credits for British comic creators in defiance of traditional publishing practices as well, which annoyed publishers no end as they were forced to pay more.

He is not to be confused with the illuminator Brother Kevin who takes far too long doing his illuminated borders and labours "under a vow of poverty and obedience" drawing strange monsters for a monstrous tyrant, understand?

>>54186429
Not everything has to have a Good Guy. Doesn't mean you have to like it.

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>>54186429
Well really its only Nemesis who's the (relatively, at the moment) good guy, the rest of the family just want to get on with their lives. On the other side you've got Torquemada and his terminators who are, to put it mildly, dicks.

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BIIIIIIGGGGGG JOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBSSSSS!

>>54186337
But didn't Torquemada boast about how he murdered all the nonwhite people later on ?

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Before Nemesis, before 2000AD even, there was a strip called Ro-Busters by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill in a comic called Starlord. Ro-Busters was essentially International Rescue from Thunderbirds, but with a team of robots - the filthy minded sewer cleaner Ro-Jaws, the noble Hammerstein, and the lovablely psychopathic, totally moronic demolition droid Mek Quake.

Ro-Busters was a very popular strip, so when Starlord merged with 2000AD the characters returned in a new series The ABC Warriors. Until this moment (bar one Easter egg in an earlier story >>54167564), there was no connection between the worlds of Nemesis and Ro-Busters / The ABC Warriors, but the links would only get stronger from here on out. This ties into an obsession Pat Mills has with linking everything he writes for 2000ad into one semi-cohesive timeline.

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>>54186652
Can't remember. Possibly. I do remember he decided to make a group honorary white men, but the full context escapes me at the moment. Considering a different, less extreme group of Terminators decide to launch a crusade against freckled people it sounds quite possible.

>>54186429
They're not really.

>>54186652
He quite literally says "We're all white men now" comparing humanity as a whole to the degenerate aliens, like mundane racism is no longer of any importance when the guy next to you is actually a skinless octopus mutant from another solar system. Something PKD also ran with in a couple of his stories.

It's a fairly skewering line in what it's taking aim at as well IMO, but Nemesis takes a scattergun approach to satire (all 2000AD does really).

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>>54186788
Yeah, its worth pointing out that 90% of the protagonists of Pat Mills work are Antiheroes at best. Slaine's another one - champion of the Earth Goddess, High King of Ireland, giant barstard.

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TORQUE-ARMADA!

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As you can see from the bottom of the page, the technical details of these titanic relics of the Lost Age of Technology provided courtesy of the Termite Mechanicus.

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Such a shame that so much knowledge has been lost that even the old scrolls can't help the engineers now.

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Aliens and humans have more in common with each other than what either side believes. That's probably not a positive statement.

>>54187198
I'm glad Pat takes a few potshots at the aliens too amidst all the artillery fire aimed at humanity.

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Skiapodes are based on Monopodes from medieval bestiaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopod_%28creature%29

>Thing's can't get any worse.
Famous last words...

>>54187224
You'll notice it more and more as the story goes along. "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

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Who does your interior decorating, I must know.

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ohboyherewego.rune

>>54187361
Never make a deal with a warlock.

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No matter what body his pea-sized brain is put into, Mek-Quake usually displays his thoughts on his chest display.

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>>54187407
Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen?

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... ah.

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Brother Gogol was last seen being chucked out of a window here >>54168224

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END OF BOOK THREE

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/y6fn1e06tfhbg1c/Book_3_-_World_Of_Nemesis.cbr

>Pictured: the first appearance of Brother Kevin and his manuscriptor Brother Mills.

Thanks Shakaranon

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>>54187786
>Brother Kevin and his manuscriptor Brother Mills.
Those illuminators take fucking centuries to do their work. I guess we should just be happy there aren't any bunny aliens riding snail ships skewering terminators anywhere in the comic...right?

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>>54187953
I miss the days Jo was /tg/ regular.

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>>54187975
Heh, me too.

>>54187786
Thanks for the storytime, m8. Quite the trip into Warham history.

>>54186429
They're not. Torquemada and Nemesis are arguably equally evil; they just stand on opposite sides of the order/chaos dichotomy.

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>>54186564
>Ford

>>54187050
People who claim that western artists are lazy and cite comics like Berserk and Akira in comparision should have a look at these British saps.

Twice as busy, 10 times the more character and the precision of a swiss watch.

>>54186127
>an alien demon centaur with feathered hair will never fight for your hand in unholy matrimony

>>54186736
It was quite the opposite; with Torquemada gone, two new Terminators move up and try to move away from hating aliens to hating other humans.

Then big T comes back and is PISSED because they've been doing it wrong and distracting from aliens.

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Pictured: Torquemada and his pure, well-behaved family.

>>54190674
Ah yes, that's more like it. I've been trying to work out whether the two Terminators in question are based on real world people from contemporary news. I've got a sneaking suspicion that the Arch-Bigot was based on the then Archbishop of Canterbury.

>>54190368
Why must you say such hurtful things, anon? Who made you this way?

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Another short interlude before we begin Book Four, this time to show A Day in the Death of Torquemada.

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Improvements have clearly been made to the Exosyst since its first reveal.

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What a delightful little villa. A perfect place to raise a family.

I do like how Torquemada's shadow looms much larger and more like his spirit form than his current body, and the framing of the gateway and portcullis as a yawning maw.

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What a lovely couple. I hope one day to share such familial joy and to be able to be so thoughtful with my gifts.

I believe this is the first appearance by Candida de Torquemada in the story. She becomes more important later.

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BOOK FOUR: THE GOTHIC EMPIRE

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As this is quite a long story and we'll need a new thread to finish it off I'll get to a suitable point and then break for the night.

Here's a quick primer on the key characters of the series so far. This Book focuses upon the Gothic Empire, which has been seen on maps like this one >>54167311 >>54186140
but hasn't yet been shown in any detail.

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And they're Victorians.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a Victorian statesman, soldier and victor at Waterloo. He was nicknamed the Iron Duke.

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Whitechapel was the site of the notorious Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the story, I don't know why I even brought it up.

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Ro-Jaws is Mek-Quake's fondly remembered pal and apparently still wanted by the law >>54187402 >>54167564

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The rest of the book is illustrated by Bryan Talbot rather than Kevin O'Neill. Today he is most well-known for The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (a work of apocalyptic science fiction set in a multiverse with a main character who can move through multiple realities) and the Grandville series (steampunk detective stories set in a world with anthropomorphic animal characters)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E53mX2SwsG4

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Some familiar faces in the Hell-Fire Club. The broadcasts they're watching you might not recognise immediately, Muffin the Mule was a puppet show for children broadcast live by the BBC from 1946 to 1952. Its one of the earliest children's TV programmes. The Tube was a "cool" music programme broadcast by Channel 4 from 1982 to 1987 (ie. contemporary with this comic) that showcased loads of up-and-coming 1980s bands

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The ABC Warriors were a band of robots so named because they were immune to Atomic Biological and Chemical weapons. Hammerstein (who made a memorable cameo in the 1995 Judge Dredd film) He is often their nominal leader. Like Ro-Jaws he was in Ro-Busters before he joined the Warriors, albeit with a different head.

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Farewell Skulmo, we hardly knew ye. Mainly because you only existed so that this could happen to you.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5rfPISIwo

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The main compartment of the Equatorial Express is based on The Crystal Palace, a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house The Great Exhibition of the British Empire in 1851. It burned down in 1936

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>>54191531
I find it hilarious that he started out as Chief of Highways or whatever it was called. Truly inquisitor material!

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With Hammerstein and co about to assault the brick moon of Brittania this seems like an appropriate place to stop for the night. Will Nemesis be able to save Queen Victoria? Will Torquearmada's fiendish plan come to fruition? Find out tomorrow* deviants!

*Or at least until I've had a kip.

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>>54192302
Chief of the Tube Police, please. Only a deviant alien loving heretic wouldn't remember and we wouldn't like to think you're one of THOSE PEOPLE would we?

In case you're wondering, yes, that would make Torquemada a traffic warden on top of everything else.

>>54191545
You know, W40K's Emperor would be a lot cooler if he could do this. Take over various bodies on far-flung worlds to defeat Chaos.

>>54191842
Wait, I thought that rigid grill structure under their snout...thing was a Warlock's mouth.

Query; what story is it when Magna eats Grobbendonk to keep him from revealing she got Nemesis' first wife assassinated so that she could have him for herself?

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>>54191705
>Air Velocipede

I can't believe how amazing this is.

>>54191784
Wouldn't 'Gothic' refer to the Germans rather than the British? Although half the British royal family were Germans...

>>54191825
>Mafeking
>Ion Duke
>Starblower
>Hotel room from Hell literally
>flamethrower body spray

See, now this is funny satire and makes the world come alive a lot better than the previous chapters.

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>>54192337
Thanks for the storytime!

>>54185940
>Holder of the Sword Sinister
>Doesn't hold the sword in his left hand

>>54192087
I noticed most of the Gothic Empire planets are named after famous battles where the British got their shit pushed in.

>>54192283
This is better steampunk than most steampunk I've read.

>>54194248
It's going for specific refs for the most part.

>>54192072
He was a hero, going againt the orders of his commander for the good of his people

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>>54193005
That would be Book Five: The Revenge of Thoth, the next one. Happens in the first three pages.

>>54193340
Its always the Y-Fronts that get me.

>>54194166
Yep. Easy to miss on your first read through if you're not up on this period of British history or if you're trying to write commentary posts while half-asleep.

>>54188575
Good ol' Moorcockian Law-Chaos conflict.

The basis for much of Warhammer's theology, I'd say.

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The real Prince Albert died from typhoid fever or some kind of abdominal illness.

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I'm having some connection issues, so apologies for any delays.

>>54199552
It comes up increasingly in the next stories and in others that aren't directly tied to Nemesis, often tied to other magical traditions and a dash of Mills-strength weirdness. You can argue its even in Requiem, with the Gods of the Limbos and the Masters of Infinity fitting into the same framework. Just another one of Uncle Pat's little calling cards to look out for.

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The Mess was an ABC Warrior who was once a robot named Steelhorn. He was built from indestructible alloys, which was a huge advantage as a soldier but caused problems when he decided to retire and his commanding officers had him melted down for scrap. The indestructibility meant that the process didn't kill him, but it did turn him into a homicidal liquid metal goo. He was last seen acting as a controlling force for a gigantic terraforming robot named George.

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While a terrible, terrible person, there are hints here and there that Torquemada has... well, a good side is completely overegging it, but a human one at least.

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Time to meet the other ABC Warriors.

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Just got space for these last fact sheets.

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I'll start a new thread as soon as I can.

bump for a link to the new thread

>>54192037
>medical warfare corps
>disease weapons
>bulk typhoid

I now want to make a 30k Death Guard chem-flamer unit and paint them all as apothecaries.

>>54200451
Only just made it.

FINAL PART OF BOOK FOUR HERE
>>54200720
>>54200720
>>54200720

Small bump to keep the two parts of the story together.