2000AD - Nemesis the Warlock 6

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ABC WARRIORS
The Black Hole (a story running simultaneously with Books Seven and Eight of Nemesis) >>54248569

For new readers just joining us and don’t want to go through all of that right now, or for established fans who still want a quick refresher, this is the story so far

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If Nemesis doesn't float your boat you might enjoy alien superfiends murdering a planet in Dreams of Deadworld and The Fall of Deadworld: >>54051703 >>54077830

And this is Sinister Dexter, the adventures of two Gunsharks in the European megatropolis Downlode: >>54133945 >>54142109

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After crashing back into his own time after a sojourn in fifteenth century Spain and 1980s Britain, Torquemada of Termite suffered a series of setbacks and defeats. Nemesis destroyed symbols of his power, eloped with his wife on their wedding day and, finally, trapped Terra, the seat of his Empire's power, in an impenetrable psychic shield.

In desperation he looked for a way to even the odds...

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Art for this episode provided by Clint Langley, whom some of you will know from his 40k photomanipulations.

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To protect your PURITY some of these pages have been edited slightly. Much like Brother Bertold I've gone blind from squinting at these things.

INQUISITORIAL EYES ONLY: http://i.imgur.com/hmLYder.jpg

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Thought detector vans are on standby for anyone curious as to what horrors lurk in the originals.

Definitely not a trap: http://i.imgur.com/kJvQqxT.jpg

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I forgot these pages recapped everything. It would have been necessary, however, because there were ten real world years between the end of book nine and the start of book ten and with only, what, three short Nemesis stories in all that time? Considering 2000AD comes out weekly that's a hell of a lot of things to distract even the staunchest fan.

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The Mechanicus are Termite's technological lore-keepers and maintainers of their relics from the Dark Age of Science, like the mighty Titan robots. They also predate 40k by quite some time.

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This would have been a great point at which to finish the story. It even says

>The Great Battle Begins in 1995!

This did not happen. In fact it was another five long years before there was even a hint of Nemesis coming back.

Hurray for new Nemesis storytime!
All hail shakaranon!
>In fact it was another five long years before there was even a hint of Nemesis coming back.

Wait, you aren't going to do the same to us, are you?

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>>54297761
Hmmmm.... mmmm... its so tempting... nggh.

But nah. I was just looking up relevant bits of the history of 2000AD, Thrill Power Overload by David Bishop, to try and work out what the hell went so wrong. The most I can find out of it is that Pat Mills planned for Clint Langely to do the next part but someone in editorial got cold feet after the poor response of 'conservative' readers to Hammer of Warlocks. It was too reminiscent of John Hicklenton's loopy interpretation, which itself hadn't gone down terribly well.

That said, I think some of the blame must lie in Mills himself - he was working on a lot of other projects at the time, particularly the Punisher 2099 series for Marvel. Blaming 'conservative' readers for not liking Langley or Hicklenton excuses the creative teams for the fact that a lot of 2000AD's output at the time was pretty dire. Langley has improved an awful lot since then, but, as one commentator put it, in this period he seems to have been using algae to paint in a palette better suited to camo schemes. He wasn't alone in that, as it turned out that one of the unforeseen side effects of Simon Bisley's fully painted Horned God was a lot of imitators trying to emulate it with far less skill.

Mills' himself, whose work was always a bit uneven, got even more rocky during the same period. A lot of its not unreadable, far from it, but its nowhere near as good as his early-to-mid 80s output. Like 2000AD as a whole he did return to something like his past glories in the new millenium, and, also like 2000AD, seems to do his best to forget that whole 90s business.

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It is the end of the 20th century. We're partying like its 1999 because it, in fact, 1999. With the dawn of the new millennium fast approaching and doomsday fantasies peaking it was the perfect chance to finally close the book on the Warlock and the Grandmaster.

For this final chapter relative newcomer Henry Flint was approached. This turned out to be a spectacularly good decision. With a final return to Termite in the offing, Flint's glorious inks were reminiscent of Kevin O'Neil's crazed detail and brought a humour and vitality to the strip which had been missing for some time.

Flint would go on to be one of the core components of 2000AD's millennial rebirth, co-creating the Low-Life, Zombo and SHAKARA and working on acclaimed runs of the ABC Warriors and Judge Dredd.d

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5AxvjTJhQ

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Ragnar, The alien with a mouth running all the way down its chest and one in the palm of its hand, was among those freed by Nemesis in the very first story in 1981 >>54168460

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Torquemada (for whom phrases like "I feel a pogrom coming on" are not unusual, bless his cotton socks) was originally introduced as a Chief of the Tube Police.

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>Who do you think you are - Nemesis the Warlock?
Perish the thought, officer. I'm just a tall, dark, heavily armoured weirdo with a big nose and a really flash car.

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An indulgence is a "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins", with Plenary ones remitting ALL temporal "punishment" required to cleanse the soul from attachment to anything but God. Although in theory there are a lot of steps to obtaining an indulgence and to have it actually mean something, the practice of selling indulgences and other abuses were long criticised. The abuse of Indulgences was one of the things which ticked off Martin Luther so much it kickstarted the Protestant Reformation.

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Don't pork it! Put a cork in it!

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"Killer Watt" was the title of the second ever story with Nemesis, back when it was supposed to be a series called "Comic Rock".

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I wonder if that one Anon who was driven mad trying to understand the mysteries of the Warlock's snout is about?

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More unashamed callbacks, these flying rollerskate lancer terminators were on the original Nemesis cover >>54167025.

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I love Torquemada.

Some time when I'm not being a lazy cunt I should really storytime some Zombo.

That first story on the deathworld is pretty fun from roleplaying potential and 40k's deathworlds perspective.

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>>54298372
I might be able to do it myself at some point after this because you're right, the first one is excellent Death World material. The later insane stories I have no idea what you'd do with, but they are certainly entertaining.

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This page is relevant for those anons involved in that very interesting discussion at the end of the last thread.

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From the looks of his eyes and smooth features the lawyer here is almost certainly a Goth >>54191640.

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A surprise witness for the defence! Who could it possibly be?

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Behell Senior was one of the foremost Terminators in Torquemada's army, appearing on the first page of the first book >>54167311. He tried to take over from Torquemada after his untimely first death and was pushed into the Alien Pit for his troubles >>54167366.

The young terminators are clearly inspired by skinheads, who had an important role to play in Book Nine: Deathbringer

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I honestly don't get Purity's actions here here considering all her character development and motivation to this point. But what the hell, its funny.

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This scene is inspired by the ancient Egyptian afterlife, particularly the role played by Ammit the Devourer

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

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>Do it faggit

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A Hypogeum (from the greek hypo for "under" and gaia "goddess of earth") is typically an underground temple or tomb.

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Torquemada's boyhood first shown in Book Two: The Alien Alliance >>54175072.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229K5n_PRJA

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Once they were closer than any human or alien had ever been. No more. No final goodbyes.

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This is it folks. This is the Final FINAL Confrontation, and for this momentous occasion Brother Kevin O'Neil has been brought back.

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Spot the Terminator sects >>54167986.

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END OF BOOK TEN
and the
TERMINUS NEMESIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU

>>54298941
Thank you for sharing, it was a wild ride.

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/n3toj971abnniit/2000AD_%23901-903_Nemesis_the_Warlock_-_Hammer_of_the_Warlocks.cbr
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ef4pa0g5cvv5hg2/2000AD_-_Nemesis_The_Warlock_Book_X_-_The_Final_Conflict.cbr

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>>54298964
Glad you enjoyed it!

Although Nemesis ended here, there was one final coda in a story Henry Flint illustrated about the ABC Warrior Deadlock which is sometimes referred to as Nemesis Book 11. The Warlock also made one final surprise appearance in the celebratory Prog 2000 last year, a full seventeen years after The Final Confrontation. I might be able to do both of them later today, but for now I need to take a little break!

I've just realised I posted entirely the wrong video there >>54298738! I meant to link to Iron Maiden's Two Minutes to Midnight, which would have been much more appropriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NRbycO0O_k

>>54299038
It truly was a wild ride, and thanks for that.
Enjoy your break, you've earned it. But remember...
Be pure, be vigilant, behave!

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>>54297530

>>54298569
Why, it's Kid Prussian Blue!

>>54297590
>we'll keep on trucking

Cheeky bastards

>>54298444
Double scourging for double-heresy.

>>54298905
>>54298941
The fuck did I just read?

is it just me or is their final fate kinda anticlimatic?

>>54301540
I think so too. I wanted to see a lot more battling, but nope, they just...
Fuse together into a haunter starship?

You're a king, Shakaranon.

>>54298720
>>54298735
One thing that really works in this series is that alongside all the hate and tomfoolery and ridiculousness Torquemada really is an unspeakable badass.

>>54301540
It is yeah, almost parodically so.

>>54298064
It's really interesting to see a black and white Flint strip.

>>54301540
Whole last issue, really. It introduces whole new characters (Nemesis' latest horse pussy, the dude who helps Torq escape), who just serve as convenient plot devices (keep Nemesis at bay, help Torq escape) with no other function or character to them.

The whole Termight empire, which has been dominating shit for the whole series, is taken down off-screen. Nothing showing the battle elsewhere. None of the characters introduced before, who were against the empire, leading the assault. Even the whole operation to assassinate Torq with the truck laser of peace was basically the undertaking of two people, one of which was pretty much leading the resistance.

Torq's doomsday machine is introduced and dealt with in basically 2 pages. Torq gets identified as an alien because Nemesis scratched him. What about non-human DNA like plants and animals? Shouldn't all humans die because they ate something other than human flesh? Shouldn't all humans die because they wore the skin of an alien creature (Torq bought Purity a fur made out of alien hide, so clearly they're not against wearing their corpses). What if you happen to breathe in some non-human spores or brush yourself against an alien plant? Did Bioware get inspired by this when coming up with the ending of Mass Effect 3?

End of the day, at least it's done. Our local library, back in the day, only had albums going up to the bit where Nemesis hands Torquemada to the new Termight empire on future Earth. And I've read the ABC warrior bit where they try and remedy the black hole, but everything else was pretty new.

Thanks, Shakaranonymous, it was fun, as always. There's never enough 2000 AD story times.

>>54298453
And then Torquemada was a deviant

>>54303938
I think they just wanted it to be over.

>>54305169
Didn't they spend years between the later books?

Hell, just have Nemesis mope around his Don Jon, trying to avoid the final conflict (because he already knows what'll happen, thanks to the spirit journey before). Some people arrive to try and get him to join their final push on Termight. Purity is there, but she doesn't want him, it's the other resistance leaders that think the warlock might help. Purity can chastise him for being an asshole who's responsible for everything.

Resistance launches their assault on Termight. Nemesis monitors it from his fort, weighing his options. The attack isn't going according to plan. A lot of people get killed. We get to see old characters die in more or less heroic ways. Purity reaches Torquemada. They fight, but the Malleus gives him an upper hand. He's about to finish her when out of nowhere the warlock intervenes. He tells her to leave Torquemada to him. Next we'll see a prolonged battle between the two. Nemesis has spend all his energy to get to Termight, so he's not at his full strength and Torquemada has the Malleus to even out the rest. Que an MGS4 final battle where the two just beat the shit out of each other, until finally they both swing their final blows, Nemesis running Torquemada through with his sword and Torquemada bashing the hammer into Nemesis. Both fall dead.

Terminators recover Torquemada's body and escape as they are losing their hold on Termight. They elevate him into a saint and use him as an icon to rally behind in their bid to retake Termight. Resistance recovers Nemesis' body and give him a burial on his home planet. Maybe they erect a statue for him on Termight with something cheesy written on it that doesn't reflect reality at all. Purity becomes the president and gets to live in the shadow of the warlock who killed Torquemada.

There, done.

>>54306615
Nemesis is pretty much as much of a villain as Torquemada by the end though.

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>>54301540
>>54302210
>>54303938
Far be it from me to try and work out what was going on in Mr. Mills's head when he submitted this, but I can at least try to offer some context and some of my own thoughts.

It might seem bizarre given his continued output, but Mills claims he doesn't like violent comics very much, particularly when they have 'pointless fights'. He also knows that a regrettably large amount of the audience loves a good pointless fight.

He usually attempts to reconciles these two opposing viewpoints by ripping the absolute mickey out of them. The fact that "This Shall Be Our Final Confrontation!" and similar became catchphrases somewhere at the end of Book One seem to be him parodying the endless supposedly high-stakes battles between heroes and villains in superhero comics, where things will never be the same again but the status quo is absolute. Equally plausibly there was never any plan to have it last this long and it kept getting recommissioned, so each Final Confrontation turned out to be just a prelude.

>>54306615
dude no offense but that just isn't Nemesis-y.

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>>54306842
In Book Ten you get your fights out of the way early with Torq to set up the trial, but it ultimately can't end in yet another one because both Torq and Nemesis have always walked away from all the others. There’s no dramatic weight to them, because they’ve been engaging in pointless, superfluous battles every time they meet, with the most recent chronologically being especially pointless because its just "Nemesis turns up, taunts Torq, goes home". It can't really end in death either, because Torq STARTED the series dead as a doornail and that didn't slow him down at all. At the same time, the last half of the series has set up how similar Nemesis and Torq have become, losing everything apart from their own burning hatred for each other. By The Final Confrontation all they really have is each other. They've also both fully embraced their status as the ultimate champions of Order and Khaos (as two sides of the same evil coin), but we know from the earlier stories that the universe needs balance more than it needs one or the other predominating. The ending shows the final battle between Order and Khaos resolving in a balanced stalemate, with Purity (symbolic name that) attempting to plot a course rejecting both extremes. It even has the added bonus of the bigger evil dick suffering eternal torment as his hubris finally catches up with him.

Now, whether all that works for you or not is a totally different matter. Me, as I’ve already said I have issues with the later books of Nemesis. I do think Mills recovered a lot in Book X, but it still gets bogged down in places with his need to teach a moral lesson on... something, when more straightforward storytelling would be more effective. it also relies very, very heavily on buying into the extended Pat Mills Theology, which isn’t healthy at the best of times.

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>>54306890
I think it’s also worth remembering that while it reads as though each story links up to the next one reasonably well there were huge gaps between each one in the real world starting from the end of Deathbringer.

Deathbringer, 1988, 61 pages
Bride of the Warlock (2000AD Winter Special 1992), 16 pages
Shape of Things to Come, 1993, 6 pages
Hammer of the Warlocks, 1994, 18 pages
The Final Confrontation, 1999, 60 pages

Lilith the Pink Demonhorse was introduced in 1994, but given how long it took for the next part of the story to get to print I can well believe that the plans for her changed a lot in the interim. Perhaps she was originally intended to have a much larger part in the Final Confrontation, perhaps not – we’ll never know. Brother Behell junior (who springs Torquemada) could be in a similar position, but I suspect he’s just another bit of fanservice for elderly fans of the comic – hey, remember that executioner from the first page of the first proper Nemesis comic? He’s back!

The delays do mean, however, that the collapse of Torquemada’s empire was prolonged as well. Shape of Things to Come introduces the Psychic Shield which prevents Terra from governing effectively, and its established from very early on that ordinary Termites chafe under Torquemada’s rule (with even supposedly loyal Terminators frequently trying to usurp and reform the Empire when Torque’s not watching). The constant crises, scandals and supernatural terrors attack the one thing Torquemada could rely on to keep his empire functioning – direct, personal intervention. Its very hard to be feared by everyone when the last thing your empire sees before your capital world is cut off is your archenemy cuckolding you on your wedding day on interplanetary TV, and when the idle thoughts of the people you can control can make you eat huge piles of alien dung (or worse).

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>>54306976
The ABC Warriors were also doing their bit to undermine the Empire and spread Khaos in their own stories. I always thought they were in the past relative to Torquemada after The Black Hole, what with the bits in Agartha being explicitly before Termite becomes... well, Termite, but reading the stories again today its possibly not the case. If you do assume that the Khronicles of Khaos and Hellbringer were intended to happen simultaneously with a longer Nemesis story in 1995 which never came out then that partly explains how the wider Empire gets lost. The delays to Nemesis mean that this context goes out the window, so The Black Hole equivalent to the Final Confrontation ends up being forgotten about because it happened five-plus years before.

Good grief, I didn’t mean to write that much. I don't even particularly like the ending all that much, though I have no idea what a more appropriate one would be.

>> 54305169
And that. God knows that’s how I feel at this point.

>>54297401
Aww yess. Stoked as fuck.

>>54306857
So what is Nemesis-y?

I mean, he's not coming to save the day, he's there to fight because the timeline dictates that he must. It's no different from him escaping his pony girlfriend to fight Torquemada because of reasons.

You still get the fall of Termight in the hands of the resistance, but at least we get to see it more, and we don't have to go through a pointless courtroom scene or have Torquemada rescued by Deuce "Ex" Machina who dies a few pages later because of reasons.

The two kill each other, so there's really no winner, they're just both out of the game. Balance is maintained. Both get elevated as icons for their causes. Even thought Termight is taken, terminators still exist and would set up shop somewhere else to continue their operations, thus the conflict is not resolved with a pretty bow on it, even if two of the players are out.

And Purity would get fucked because she knows the truth about Nemesis and all he has done, but the masses laud him as a hero who killed Torquemada.

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You know what, having embarrassed myself typing up all that gobbledygook that nobody with any sense is going to read I'm going to have to salvage some dignity with Deadlock and his fabulously cool motorbike.

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Before its shock appearance in Prog 2000, Deadlock, Nemesis was definitely over for all eternity. That said, in 2000 Henry Flint and Pat Mills collaborated again on a solo story for Deadlock of the ABC Warriors, set in the aftermath of the death of Nemesis and Torquemada. Although it is its own thing, fans do sometimes like to count it as Nemesis Book Eleven because of this.

>>54306890
>Torq STARTED the series dead as a doornail and that didn't slow him down at all

Well, to be fair, his astral form did give him some ability to take on Nemesis. Where as his later human self could take a sword to the chest, but it still required a lot of work to fix. Not to forget that that version of Torquemada killed himself and got replaced by Torquemada from an earlier timeline by Thoth. That version was just a human who might have been strong and tough, but still a human. Killing him would have been as final as when phantom Torquemada killed himself in the alien body.

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The ski bikes here are obviously based on Deadlock's one from the Black Hole.

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>>54307270
That's the other thing that gets glossed over, Nemesis never got around to putting that Torq back into his earlier time period to prevent a horrible paradox. Everything would have resolved itself just fine if they'd just put him back after the The Two Torqs, but no, we have to be Khaotic about it.

Its that kind of looming paradox that encourages people like this.

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But who gives a truck about any of that, DAT BIKE.

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You might as well rename it Maximum Edge and I love it for that.

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>>54307338

>>54297631
>torquemada- whose name in spanish means torture and burning
That's not even a little true.

>>54307352
>tfw you can't give a Space Marine character on a bike a chainfist

Wasted modelling opportunities, I say.

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>>54307409
See, that covers it so much better. I've been thinking too hard about a Pat Mills comic and that way lies madness.

>>54307417
Yep. This is the Pat Mills universe, anon, only a fool would take anything written here as fact.

>>54307398
Wait, so all humans are already genetically modified from humans today?

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I mean for God's sake there's a woman pregnant in her nose and that young man is huffing aliens.

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>>54307492
Maybe. I think its the first time its come up, but it would explain how humans and aliens can breed at all.

These spiders ran a prison/reform planet in Book Two of Nemesis. Torquemada sabotaged their efforts by possessing their leader.

>>54307503
>huffing xenos

Not even once.

>>54307550
>would explain how humans and aliens can breed at all

Maybe they just had Star Trek genes?

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>>54307624
As good an explanation as any.

>>54307352
Best boy.

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>that last victim.
If I suddenly stop posting avenge me.

>>54307664
What if you divide by nothing?

>>54307161
I thought it was good insight and important context for the writing of the story. Don't break yourself down.

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>>54307676
But Mek-Quake not in this one???

>>54307708
Oh shi-

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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will." is the Law of Thelema developed by the occultist Alistair Crowley, the so-called Wickedest Man in the World, in 1900. Mills has used bits and pieces of Crowley's work in many of his more magical books and the man himself appears in Requiem: Vampire Knight as the character Black Sabbat (along with his demon baboon girlfriend).

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Need to pause here. Should be able to do the rest tonight.

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I've had to stitch most of the pages together into doubles, but they should all fit in this thread now.

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I have a feeling >>54307676 will like this page, what with all the leaping and thrusting.

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A quality reaction image right there.

Quite likely a joke which was written first and then had the entire last act built around.

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And so we close on the birth of a new Khaos Kult.

>>54309395
God, this art is amazing. How the fuck does 2000AD keep pumping stuff like this out weekly?

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/wxy99rw1d3s8993/01_-_Deadlock.cbr

We're finally ready to close the book on Nemesis but there's one last curiosity. We're not going to be able to do it here, but below is a link Tubular Hells, from Prog 2000
http://www.mediafire.com/file/z79lmp84x7qxxxl/2000AD+%232000+Nemesis+the+Warlock+-+Tubular+Hells.cbr

Its set AFTER the final confrontation, and it has Mills going off on one in a very Mills-y way. You have been warned.

Nice Kev O'Neil art though. Think of it as an interesting curio more than anything else.

>>54309438
Henry Flint is a treasure, but in general its torrents of raw Thrillpower, talented writers, artists, editors inspiring each other, and lots of luck that people are in the right place and time to be recruited. The cultural background with a lot more comics about grotesque looking children than cleancut Americans and other superheroes might do peculiar things too. I also try not to post the less good stuff unless its for a specific purpose too, which does give a certain impression too.

So that's it! That's damn near everything of the Warlock from 1980 to 2016, so longer than some people reading this have been alive. Hopefully its been interesting and some use even when it went to WEIRD places.

I don't know if I'll be able to do it any time soon, but for anyone interested (for ex, the Deadlock fan), this is The Khronicles of Khaos and its immediate sequel Hellbringer
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7144y3d8g3l9s/Book_06_-_Khronicles_of_Khaos

Following on immediately from The Black Hole and it shows Deadlock taking command of the Warriors in order to enact a grand Khaos ritual. Featuring full colour art, a new female warrior, monstrous ultra-violence, Blackblood in a sweet hat, and cross-dressing, it has something for everyone!

>>54309933
Thanks again for dumping. You're a true hero.

>>54309933
Man, some anon should catalog all of these links for download.

Thanks for the storytime dump.

>>54312768
I'm not sure what you mean, but this is the general Nemesis folder.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ufdv45955l0x2/Nemesis

If you've enjoyed them do try to get the original books if you can, they are worth it.

Just as a heads up, I may or may not be able to do it today but I would still like to do at least some Strontium Dog like I said I would do last week, before I so rashly decided to do something like a thousand pages of Nemesis. Not the whole thing, obviously, but maybe some classics stories. I'd also like to do Leviathan (Titanic meets Event Horizon) again, but I'm open to other suggestions.

>>54316196
SHAKARA?

(or have you done that?)

>>54303938
>Shouldn't all humans die because they ate something other than human flesh? Shouldn't all humans die because they wore the skin of an alien creature (Torq bought Purity a fur made out of alien hide, so clearly they're not against wearing their corpses). What if you happen to breathe in some non-human spores or brush yourself against an alien plant?

Well... maybe the builders didn't really think things trough? Build it to kill everything with ALIEN DNA and oops human gut flora was apparently ALIEN as far as the doomsday machine was concerned. Everyone dies. Oh the embarrassment.

>>54318786
Apparently not this year, the last time was April '16. I can do it again, but to be honest I'd just rather do something a bit fresher that people are less likely to have seen. Shall I try to find something similar?

>>54318821
I don't think Pat Mills put that much thought into it, but its completely in character for Torquemada to create a doomsday device that kills everyone and everything that isn't him. "I regret that I must do this, but I shall mourn your deaths at some point!"

>>54307607
>>54307990
This cover style/design is very early 2000's. Did they do anything big when they actually reached the year 2000ad?

>>54319171
>>Did they do anything big when they actually reached the year 2000ad?
Doesn't look like it, oddly enough. A new Dredd, a new Strontum Dog, a new Missionary Man story and the first episode of Glimmer Rats and that's it. They did do slightly bigger ones for publishing anniversaries/milestones I think.

>>54318821
I'm disappointed the bomb wasn't a complete dud. Like Torquemada's tomb. Like he activates it and nothing happens, and the inside is empty with a note from the designer going, "Fuck you, this task is impossible and you're a jerk, I quit!"