2000AD - Nemesis the Warlock 3

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In Book Four (), Nemesis travelled to the Gothic Empire, a part of the galaxy ruled over by aliens who had modelled their society on Victorian England, in order to halt an invasion by Torquemada’s Termites. After thwarting an attack on Queen Victoria on one of the brick moons of Britannia, Nemesis decided to recruit the ABC Warriors, ancient combat robots with uncanny abilities, to aid him in his war. Torquemada, meanwhile, has found himself a new and more powerful body, one cobbled together from alien corpses. Will this be their final confrontation?
__No.__


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Oh boy, here we go.

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Compared to some of the things that happen later this is perfectly normal.

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BIG JOBS!

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There has to have been a better way to break the news Purity.

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This is the first of several key turning points in the series and in Nemesis' character.

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Torquemada's being just a touch hypocritical here, especially given his present circumstances. That's deliberate

>>54200890
Just goes to show how powerful a thing conviction can be, I guess.

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Lord's Cricket Ground is, again, a real place. The Ashes is a series of Test matches in a cricket season between England and Australia.

>The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, their first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes.
>After England had won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women including Florence Morphy, whom Bligh married within a year. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail, and were humorously described as "the ashes of Australian cricket". It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given to the MCC by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes

The famous cricketer W. G. Grace can also be seen in the background. You might recognise him as God in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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They grow up so fast.

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END OF BOOK FOUR.

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/kkxlkfldsm3tzlp/Book_4_-_Gothic_Empire.cbr

>>54201068
>not only did Bligh win the Australians' ashes, he won one of their women
English savagery at its finest.

>>54201150
Quality story time. Are you going to do the relevant ABC Warriors stories too?

>>54201068
>Cricket Ash conquest of former prison colony for wives
Empire is fucking weird.

>>54201112
Best boy isn't with the ABC Warriors yet

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Books One to Four of Nemesis are collected in this omnibus edition, about the same size as the Judge Dredd Case Files volumes or a phonebook. If you're even slightly interested they're well worth getting as the images are so much sharper and you can see all those lovely details so much more clearly. They're also terrifica value for money for the amount of content you get.

>>54202411
I've been going backwards and forwards about leaving it at that for Nemesis and moving on, but if I do then yes, yes, we'll detour into The Black Hole at the relevant part of the story.

>>54203496
Or is he?
He isn't, because MEK QUAKE IS THE BEST AND MOST SMARTEST HANDSOME BOY. HURRRR.

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While I have a think, please enjoy this special which came out somewhere between Books Three and Four and which shows a bit more of what life on Terra is like.

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Brother Kevin O'Neil back on illustrating duties, seemingly going madder and madder portraying different Termite fashions.

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Oo-wah!

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Friendly reminder to all viewers to always BE PURE! BE VIGILANT! AND BEHAVE!

bampu for vigilance

What's the deal with Nemesis and nostrils? Everything has huge nostrils.

>>54205896
It's for sniffing out the foul stench of xenos.

Also it's a really easy way to exaggerate ugliness, and everything in Nemesis is pretty ugly.

You are a hero.

These comics are godlike.

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Ah, what the hell. Lets try and ride this as far as we can.

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It has been a decade since Nemesis the Warlock defeated the armies of Termite in the Gothic system with the aid of the ABC Warriors. His arch-rival, Torquemada, is dead, slain by his own followers after the stolen body his twisted soul inhabited mutated. Peace is at last coming to a galaxy torn apart by war.

But all is not what it seems. The mastermind behind the death of Nemesis’ wife remains at large. The warlock’s son, Thoth, remains hidden on Terra, awaiting the day he can punish his father for failing to protect his mother. And can Torquemada really be dead?

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This is Magna. She engineered the death Nemesis' wife, Chira, and (she believes) their son

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And now Grobbendonk!

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There comes a point in the life of every editor of Pat Mills where he bursts into their office screaming "IT'S TIME TRAVEL TIME" and they find themselves on the floor sobbing "No Pat! No!"

They are never spared.

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Brother Gogol and Sir Everic are still where we left them after all this time.

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Well that escalated quickly.

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Oh dear...

Satanus is a giant black T-Rex which some of you might remember first appeared in the Judge Dredd story The Cursed Earth. Before the wars that devestated the planet, scientists had cloned dinosaurs and made an amusement park / zoo for them. The bombs dropped, the creatures got loose, and by Dredd's time herds of wild ones roamed the radioactive mid-west*. After tangling with Dredd and company Satanus escaped further into the Cursed Earth, nursing a terrible grudge.

Satanus was the spawn of a female named Old One Eye from another early 2000AD series by Pat Mills called Flesh, which posited that the real reason the dinosaurs became extinct is that time travellers factory farmed them to death when they ate all the animals in their own time. He also had a son, Golgotha, who appeared in the ABC Warriors terrorising a community of martian settlers at some point in the future after he was brought to the red planet to be the first "Hunting Tyranosaur on Mars".

Just roll with it.

Pat Mills is (or at least was) obsessed with making everything he wrote tie into one unified time-line so Flesh > Invasion > ABC Warriors > Judge Dredd > Nemesis etc. Most other writers ignore this completely, because it gets very silly, very fast otherwise and nobody sane wants to be shackled to the Mills Canon for all the time.


*Interestingly, this.was all written 12 years before Jurassic Park was published.

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>So many babies.

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Nemesis' views have evolved somewhat from the earliest stories.

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One of the themes that develops in this story and others is how love and the pain of losing a loved one can be twisted into something terrible.

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Shades of Diana, Princess of Wales, here.

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History abhors a paradox.

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That Age of Technology before the Empire must have been quite something.

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Of course, the contemporary inhabitants of Termite view it as a Dark Age.

The Gooney Birds were in the second ever story >>54167221

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I don't know why the next section is in colour. I assume the original compiler was missing this bit in their progs and resorted to using one of the later American print collections.

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Any guesses as to the identity of the mysterious Seventh Warrior?

________BIG JOBS!!!!__________

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Bugrit, meant to spoiler that. Oh well, live and learn.

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END OF BOOK FIVE.

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/5k25njkuzbk6f55/Nemesis_The_Warlock_Book_V_-_The_Vengeance_of_Thoth.cbr


>Pictured: A Bryan Talbot Torquemada from this year's 40th anniversary spectacular.

Book Six carries straight on from the last one, then splits - the ABC Warriors continue their bit of the story in their own series while simultaneously Nemesis carried on into Books seven and eight. I'm not going to do any more tonight, but I should be able to do at least some of them tomorrow.

Hopefully people are still enjoying these, or at least are finding them interesting.

>>54208320
These are dope. Thanks.

Nemebump

>>54208320
>Hopefully people are still enjoying these
You have no idea, m8. Absolute rollercoaster.

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BOOK SIX: TORQUEMURDER!

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>>54213317
>>54210012
I'm so glad.

Please feel free to comment as we go along. One, it means I don't have to worry about keeping the thread bumped, and two, I don't wonder if I'm just howling into the void for no reason!

I only howl into the void for specific reasons, like boredom, or to annoy the neighbours.

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I suspect that the Arch Bigot is based on the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISPGFn4yzpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcFfr5gdxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWfeZ4xRhc

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There's better not be any damned frecks in the audience.

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What could be in the cup that could make Torquemada so afraid? And what could have brought him to the end of time before?

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This concept seems to be inspired by some Kabalistic ideas. Evangelion's tang may have been drawing on the same idea.

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That's our Torquemada!

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In some gnostic sects The Monad is the supreme being. Its usually not... this.

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Mek-Quake to the rescue!

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>>54208320
I own all three of the omnibuses and I'm still enjoying reading along. Nemesis is unexpectedly great as a social storytime event.

>>54214243
Torquemada liquidizing an entire race of enlightened, ascended beings for fuel is maybe my fave Torquemada moment.

>>54214316
This was what was talked about before ITT.

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We'll do Part Two of Torquemurder soon™, I've just got some bits and bobs to do in the real world first. After that, maybe the Two Torquemadas or the ABC Warriors Black Hole

>>54214554
Hearing from the peanut gallery is honestly my favourite part of storytime.

>>54214780
Its definitely up there in mine. Its that winning combination of ludicrously evil and yet surprisingly mundane.

>>54214052
>In space no-one can hear you kill an alien

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>>54214316

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>>54215839

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Ahem. Moving swiftly on...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cphNpqKpKc4

New thread
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