BIG JOBS!
There comes a time in an alien Warlock revolutionary’s life that compromises need to be made. Compromises like breaking your arch nemesis out of a stable time loop in which they burn to death without end, for all time, in order to stop your grief-crazed, time travelling son from destroying reality by crashing a black hole and a white hole together.
Nemesis the Warlock is a 2000AD series that is filled to bursting with mad ideas that 40k shamelessly stole from. Along with the ABC Warriors, a series about ancient PTSD ravaged warbots with which it crosses over, it is one of the longest running and best-loved of all the classic British comic’s properties.
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Prologue and Book One >>44307075
Book Two and Three >>44328117
Book Four >>44347421
Book Five >>44363321
>>44388740
BOOK SIX: TORQUEMURDER!
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
Shakaranon Christmas storytime? I DIDN'T KNOW ID BEEN THAT GOOD THIS YEAR
The Arch Bigot is a send up of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury.
Alternate theme (listen during Verse 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5AxvjTJhQ
Ro-Jaws and The ABC Warriors had become supporting cast to Nemesis in a previous storyline. The ship they are currently on actually has the tiny, tiny brain of one of them, Mek-Quake, occupying it.
Love is... putting a bomb in your beloved's brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
As mentioned in previous threads, Thoth's pet, the giant black Tyrannosaurus named Satanus was a character in older, non-Nemesis 2000AD stories that Pat Mills brought into the strip as part of his plan to link all the different strips in the anthology into a single timeline of his devising.
>>44388740
Awesome, I was waiting for this.
What could possibly be in the cup that Torquemada is so afraid of?
>>44388995
Mountain Dew?
>>44389042
Worse even than that, I'm afraid.
That's out Torquemada!
>>44389196
Such a classy guy.
>>44389220
Did the Prometheus movie steal this idea?
>>44389253
We'll never know.I like to think so though
Mek-Quake saves the day!
>>44388921
>terminator land-cruiser
>>44389253
Did Neon Genesis Evangelion?
>>44389380
Yeah, actually, Tang is a better comparison. I wonder if its a common-ish concept in some apocalyptic fiction?
>>44389380
Never saw Neon Genesis Evangelion. I figured by the time I passed 30 I would not appreciate the characters. Same thing when I tried to read Elric of Melniboné, I decided that I thought he was kind of a cunt and I would have resonated better with the character if I read the stories 10 years earlier.
Pat Mills being even less subtle about his loathing of traditional superheroics than usual. This reached new heights a year later with the first issue of Marshal Law.
In a nice coincidence, you can actually read it now. Kevin O'Neil, the Nemesis co-creator is on the art
>>>/co/78414968
>>>/co/78426568
>>>/co/78429160
"Give me a child until the age of seven and I will give you the man" is a maxim of the Jesuit order of Catholic priests. Mills grew up Catholic, and was taught by priests at a boy's school. He talks about his experiences, and how they influenced his portrayal of Torquemada here
https://patmills.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/torquemada-the-swinging-monk/
>>44389628
kek, Torquemada's charisma stat is through the roof
We need a modern version of Nemesis to lampshade all the extremes in todays world.
Matthew Hopkins, the so-called Witch Finder General, was a real person, and almost solely responsible for the image of the brutal puritan witch-hunter entering popular consciousness. During his active career between 1644 and 1647 he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of women, and his book, The Discovery of Witches, helped spread the panic to North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins
(its an interesting topic, I can find better book references than a wiki link if anyone is interested)
Hopkins life was also made into a Hammer Horror movie with Vincent Price in the lead role
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98gzk6VSzfU
Well worth watching.
John Chivington was a real person as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chivington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre
>An estimated 70–163 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho – about two-thirds of whom were women, children, and infants – were killed and mutilated by his troops. Chivington and his men took scalps and other body parts as battle trophies, including human fetuses and male and female genitalia.*
>*ref: United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 1865 (testimonies and report)
The history books would have you believe that he died of cancer in 1894, but we know differently.
I'm pretty sure this is a link to the full coloured version of Book Six rather than the original black & white progs. If you'd rather have that one just give us a shout.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/d1s54hpb24qu3s3/2000AD_-_Nemesis_The_Warlock_Book_VI_-_Torquemurder.cbr
At this point, Nemesis and the ABC Warriors went back to being separate strips but continued running side-by-side as part of a larger single plot, with Nemesis Book Six: The Two Torquemadas following the Warlock and Purity, while the 'bots continued their mission in The Black Hole. For the moment we'll be focussing on Nemesis' part, but Tau willing we'll get to do both.
But before that, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 2000AD, let's see what the Grandmaster got up to in
TORQUEMADA THE GOD!
You should probably put some savlon on that or something, dang.
>captcha has a picture of "Puritan Street".
Glorious!
"My struggle" is of course the English translation of which famous German book?
Oh no.Poor great uncle Baal
I'm pretty sure that the grovelling man asking the questions is a caricature of someone, but unfortunately I can't remember who.
Stallas = Dallas, a popular soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. Really big in the UK at this time too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rlb427v8Sk
I love that Terminator in the fourth panel
>>44390551
Don't we all.
To refresh, Brother Mikron went berserk at the end of Book Four, the Gothic Empire, after Torquemada's custom made alien Frankenstein body mutated under stress >>44350933. This present version of Torquemada was taken from an earlier point in time by Thoth, Nemesis' son, so that he could be trapped in an endless loop of being burned alive. Nemesis broke him out of that, and should have put him back to that point in order to ensure that the time paradoxes don't destroy reality, but is more concerned with finding Thoth and getting vengeance on humanity as a whole.
It only gets more confusing from here.
Edwin Munday isn't a UK Prime Minister... yet.
Coming Soon:
NEMESIS THE WARLOCK - BOOK SEVEN: THE TWO TORQUEMADAS!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/p77qk7ccfx4gz3x/62.2000AD_%23520-524_Nemesis_the_Warlock_-_Torquemada_the_God.cbr
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Tomas-de-Torquemada
>Tomás de Torquemada, (born 1420, Valladolid, Castile [Spain]—died September 16, 1498, Ávila, Castile), first grand inquisitor in Spain, whose name has become synonymous with the Christian Inquisition’s horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism.
>The nephew of a noted Dominican cardinal and theologian, Juan de Torquemada, the young Torquemada joined the Dominicans and in 1452 became prior of the monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia, an office that he held for 22 years. He was closely associated with the religious policy of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I, to whom he was both confessor and adviser (to Isabella, from her childhood). He was convinced that the existence of the Marranos (Jewish converts), Moriscos (Islamic converts), Jews, and Moors was a threat to the religious and social life of Spain, and his influence with the Catholic monarchs enabled him to affect their policies. In August 1483 he was appointed grand inquisitor for Castile and León, and on October 17 his powers were extended to Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca.
>In his capacity as grand inquisitor, Torquemada reorganized the Spanish Inquisition, which had been set up in Castile in 1478, establishing tribunals at Sevilla (Seville), Jaén, Córdoba, Ciudad Real, and, later, Zaragoza. In 1484 he promulgated 28 articles for the guidance of inquisitors, whose competence was extended to include not only crimes of heresy and apostasy but also sorcery, sodomy, polygamy, blasphemy, usury, and other offenses; torture was authorized in order to obtain evidence. These articles were supplemented by others promulgated between 1484 and 1498. The number of burnings at the stake during Torquemada’s tenure has been estimated at about 2,000.
Alternatively, I can do Part One of ABC Warriors: The Black Hole, then the Two Torquemadas, then Black Hole part two. The Black Hole is a lot longer and TTT does fit nicely in the middle, but it depends on whether people want to read something different or not. Its hard to upload it in such a way that's both readable and gets across that both stories were running simultaneously in the comic.
I also posted this on Christmas Eve, but it appears nobody took it at the time - its a code someone can redeem at Gog.com for a present.
8A93B-5333E-7CF95-4A56E
I only have that one, unfortunately, but I offer it as a sort of general gift to you anons.
>>44391026
I would like some ABC
>>44390729
Now here's a paradox that I found when I first read this arc: How can Torquemada be a reincarnation of both Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) and John Milton Chivington (1821-1894)? Mills messed up there.
>>44391066
Unless I hear any objections we'll do that next in a few hours then.
Fun fact: While he was designing and sculpting the Vindicare Assassin for Games Workshop, Jes Goodwin had a poster of super sniper Joe Pineapples in his room. It was very likely THIS very poster.
Rumour has it that back in the day, before the move to Lenton, the Games Workshop and 2000AD staff all drank in the same local pub as well.
Congratulations, Merry Christmas and happy new year to whoever got the code as well. May your days be pure and deviant free.
>>44391277
Its very likely a mistake, but then again, the real Chivington died to cancer rather than satanic T-Rex attack so in Nemesis' world its possible that he died with time to spare before reincarnating.
Alternately, as with Requeim Vampire Knight, the concept of time and space means little outside the mortal realm and reincarnation doesn't necessarily happen perfectly sequentially. If you'd like to imagine Torquey chilling out as a werewolf and bonking vampires in hell between incarnations you should feel free to do so.
>>44391359
In Requiem, Torquemada and Hitler is also in hell at the same time. With Pat Mills magical ride try to not use real world logic too much.
>>44390712
>let's make our country great again
We could use some new Nemesis comics now.
>>44390712
Is Torquemada the base for the Emperor of Mankind in 40k?
>>44391277
How is it a mistake? There's no rule that reincarnation should be bound to be successive. Why wouldn't you be able to reincarnate as more than one person in a given period of time?
>>44392160
Of course not! How dare you confuse the bigoted, egotistical, immortal, undead, soul-eating monster whose creed of xenocide and violently insane leadershop caused the human race to lose potential allies from across the universe with Torquemada!
>9 January 1988
It occurs to me that I could have done this in a couple of weeks and made its anniversary. Oh well, c'est la vie.
A short history lesson and summary of the story so far to get people who've just joined us up to speed.
Who could this mysterious biker be?
Wait what
This reveal makes a bit less sense if you've been following along from the start. Deadlock is an ancient Sorcerer robot knight who follows Khaos and predates the Termite Empire and the rise of Torquemada. After a lifetime of study he was able to became one with Nemesis >>44350213, which is how the Warlock was able to gain the service of the Warriors in the first place. And now he's back, and a separate creature in his own right.
I'm sure it'll be explained in time.
As a side note, its a nice touch that Deadlock's design is a visual link between Nemesis and the Terminators.
>Job Finder.
Blackblood losing his leg becomes slightly important later.
ARGH
>>44391293
>>44391359
That's pretty cool.
>>44393572
hey that is like space marines. They have their p centers rewriten to feel war as most awesome thing too. At least the space wolf ones do.
>>44394052
I hadn't noticed that one, good eye.
>>44393503
This is basically the webway, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxYQo43dw00
>>44393873
Deadlock is great.
wow this is like w40k the comic.
An artist going by the name SMS alternate duties with Simon Bisley on The Black Hole. Where Bisley has a flowing, exaggerated style that shows the influence of Kevin O'Neil and a love of the grotesque, SMS is more restrained and semi-realistic.
SMS has done quite a bit of illustration work over the years, including some for Games Workshop
http://www.smuzz.org.uk/
The Biz has mostly remained in the comics industry. His influence is cited as one of the driving forces for the "Liefeldian school" art of 90s American comics.
>>44394222
There is very little in this that 40k didn't rip off in one way or the other.
>>44394182
Blackblood is my favourite, but I love his design in Black Hole.
Although i do like all of them in different ways.
>>44394335
The ABC Warriors would really suit a DM of the Rings thing. Blackblood would be the ridiculously edgy player, Deadlock would be some kind of Grant Morrison-esque new age wizard hipster.
This is a callback to this chapter of Nemesis book six >>44388956 >>44389280
.
40k would really be more interesting if it had kept Chaos as a force of ambiguous morality.
>>44394395
Hammerstein's one of the original players that's been there since the beginning and won't ever stop trying to be a paladin, Ro Jaws specced for everything but combat, while Mek Quake min-maxed for maximum killy.
Nemesis and Deadlock strike me more asthe GMPC
>And felt Deadlock’s Ace of Swords between my ribs before.
This is a reference to the first ABC Warriors story with Deadlock, which ends with Hammerstein recruiting the wizard after allowing himself through by ten magical swords.
>>44394685
Wow way to be a passive aggressive little shit deadlock
Notice the Mk 2 's pose and crown oof thorns, for maximum symbolism.
>>44394909
The Marvin Award is based on the costume for Marvin the Paranoid Android from the 1981 BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
>>44394882
>>44394896
Getting the impression Pat Mills could write a pretty good Nuke mini.
We're a few images away from filling the thread, so I'll make a new one shortly.
>>44395119
Not sure I'm familiar with Nuke, could you elaborate?
>>44395175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke_(Marvel_Comics)
Sorry everyone, family crisis. Will do best to get back to it tomorrow when things have blown over. Just in case, this is the first part of the story
http://www.mediafire.com/download/sl4z9dksb3m61b6/01_-_The_A.B.C._Warriors_-_The_Black_Hole_%28Part_1%29.cbr
>>44396343
No problem, hope eveything is okay. Thanks for the storytime.
>>44396343
Thanks for the storytime, man.
Is Pat Mills the western Hirohiko Araki when it comes to conjuring bullshit that you want to buy?
