The dark arts of Nemesis the Warlock, Arch Deviant, Scourge of the Termite Empire, have allowed the aliens of the galaxy to triumph over their would-be exterminators. Nemesis himself is a proud husband and new father, beloved by his followers and family, and well-known for launching heroic strikes against human cruelty throughout the galaxy. But the maniacal revenant Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Terra and undisputed leader of all humanity, has already begun to enact his vengeance. Soon the Warlock will know pain like he has never known before, and all creation will tremble at his rage...
Nemesis the Warlock is a sword and sorcery 2000AD series that Warhammer 40,000 ripped off extensively. As such, elements of it can be used by players and GMs of 40k rpgs with very little work. The weird gothic setting is also interesting enough to be used in its own right.
BOOK ONE: THE WORLD OF TERMITE and BOOK TWO: THE ALIEN ALLIANCE BOOK THREE: THE WORLD OF NEMESIS and the first half of BOOK FOUR: THE GOTHIC EMPIRE
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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Cameron Stewart
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Ethan Morgan
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Angel Collins
Oh boy, here we go.
Bentley Walker
Compared to some of the things that happen later this is perfectly normal.
Christian Williams
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Jordan Roberts
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Jonathan Scott
BIG JOBS!
Jaxson James
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Juan Bailey
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Wyatt Nelson
There has to have been a better way to break the news Purity.
Jacob Bailey
This is the first of several key turning points in the series and in Nemesis' character.
Jayden Flores
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Brandon Foster
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Bentley Martinez
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Michael Barnes
Torquemada's being just a touch hypocritical here, especially given his present circumstances. That's deliberate
Adrian Mitchell
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Caleb Lopez
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Ryder Lewis
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Aaron Fisher
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Lincoln Collins
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Dylan Bailey
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Christopher Baker
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Jayden Gomez
Just goes to show how powerful a thing conviction can be, I guess.
Joseph Roberts
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Gavin Sanchez
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Jason Price
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Nathan Russell
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Jose Kelly
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Ethan Walker
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Dominic James
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Wyatt Gonzalez
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.
>not only did Bligh win the Australians' ashes, he won one of their women English savagery at its finest.
Owen Gutierrez
Quality story time. Are you going to do the relevant ABC Warriors stories too?
Gabriel Ward
>Cricket Ash conquest of former prison colony for wives Empire is fucking weird.
Nathan Anderson
Best boy isn't with the ABC Warriors yet
Adrian Scott
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.
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.
Or is he? He isn't, because MEK QUAKE IS THE BEST AND MOST SMARTEST HANDSOME BOY. HURRRR.
Logan Bailey
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.
Landon Collins
Brother Kevin O'Neil back on illustrating duties, seemingly going madder and madder portraying different Termite fashions.
Julian Parker
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Jacob Bell
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Asher King
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Jayden King
Oo-wah!
Colton Butler
Friendly reminder to all viewers to always BE PURE! BE VIGILANT! AND BEHAVE!
Adrian Stewart
bampu for vigilance
Ayden Jones
What's the deal with Nemesis and nostrils? Everything has huge nostrils.
Kayden Russell
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.
Angel Allen
You are a hero.
These comics are godlike.
Carson Scott
Ah, what the hell. Lets try and ride this as far as we can.
Nolan Lee
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?
James Torres
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Isaac Foster
This is Magna. She engineered the death Nemesis' wife, Chira, and (she believes) their son
Samuel Davis
And now Grobbendonk!
Kayden Peterson
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Aiden Morris
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.
Hudson Wilson
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Brody Hill
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Caleb Peterson
Brother Gogol and Sir Everic are still where we left them after all this time.
Xavier Kelly
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Adam Hall
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Jackson Sullivan
Well that escalated quickly.
Jace Smith
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.
Blake Lewis
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Joshua Hill
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Angel Richardson
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Brandon Lewis
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Anthony Lee
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Jacob Thomas
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Xavier Carter
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David James
>So many babies.
Luis Green
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Aaron Ward
Nemesis' views have evolved somewhat from the earliest stories.
Camden Lopez
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Chase Perez
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Jaxson Morgan
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.
