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Nemesis The Warlock #1
Nemesis: The Beginning
An adventure featuring the sinister-looking "2000 AD" alien hero Nemesis, who travels in his trusty Blitzspear in his never ending quest through the annals of time to rid the world of the tortuous evil that is Torquemada.
176 pages, Paperback
Published April 23, 1992
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Pat Mills
849 books231 followersPat Mills, born in 1949 and nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.
His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.
His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.
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April 26, 2020
Nemesis was my first exposure to Kevin O’Neill’s art. I had been reading Titan’s Judge Dredd collections, which led me to the other Titan books, and to 2000AD itself. Fortunately, my local comics shop was well-stocked with such British fare.
Nemesis began as a couple of one shots spun off from Mills’ and O’Neill’s Ro-Busters strip. They had created a planet called Termight, which was riddled with tunnels and underground cities. They did two stories, loosely inspired by songs (The Jam’s “Going Underground” for instance), featuring bizarre highway chases between Chief of the Tube Police, Torquemada, and Nemesis, unseen, represented only by his vehicle, the Blitzspear.
The stories proved popular enough with 2000AD readers, that the pair developed a series, with Torquemada recast as the evil ruler of a church bent on destroying all non-human life, and Nemesis emerging from the Blitzspear to become the champion of aliens everywhere. The story itself became a mixture of SF and Fantasy that defies description. Let's just say that Mills’ script lives up to the promise of O’Neill’s wildest flights of visual imagination and leave it at that. Those of us familiar with his work know that those flights can get quite wild indeed …
This is the first of a projected series of four books. It ends with an epic confrontation between Nemesis and Torquemada, and with the promise of even greater to come. Quirky, fun, and recommended!
Nemesis began as a couple of one shots spun off from Mills’ and O’Neill’s Ro-Busters strip. They had created a planet called Termight, which was riddled with tunnels and underground cities. They did two stories, loosely inspired by songs (The Jam’s “Going Underground” for instance), featuring bizarre highway chases between Chief of the Tube Police, Torquemada, and Nemesis, unseen, represented only by his vehicle, the Blitzspear.
The stories proved popular enough with 2000AD readers, that the pair developed a series, with Torquemada recast as the evil ruler of a church bent on destroying all non-human life, and Nemesis emerging from the Blitzspear to become the champion of aliens everywhere. The story itself became a mixture of SF and Fantasy that defies description. Let's just say that Mills’ script lives up to the promise of O’Neill’s wildest flights of visual imagination and leave it at that. Those of us familiar with his work know that those flights can get quite wild indeed …
This is the first of a projected series of four books. It ends with an epic confrontation between Nemesis and Torquemada, and with the promise of even greater to come. Quirky, fun, and recommended!
September 3, 2014
Read this, then check yourself into an insane asylum to wait for someone to mnake into a movie, coz you are going to go mad waiting for it to happen, Forget Watcjhmen, Kick-Ass and 300- this is the wonkiest Graphic novel series of all time!
July 6, 2015
Credo!
Die Story ist ganz typisch für die britische 2000AD-Welt: Außerirdische, die sich gegen Tyrannei und Bigotterie verbünden. Unserer Welt und Historie wird ein Spiegel vorgehalten, der durch die Verzerrung und Übersteigerung ins Absurde ein satirisches Bild zeigt, das schwärzer, böser und verachtungsvoller nicht sein könnte. Die wirklich beißende Satire wird dann noch in eine ansprechende, wenn auch heutzutage etwas klischeebeladen wirkende SF- und Fantasy-Story verpackt und mit einem brutal-aggressiven Zeichenstil voller gotischer Elemente vom kantigen Kevin O'Neill verziert, der einem wie Blei im Magen liegt.
Mir gefällt die groteske, zurückhaltungslos-barocke Art, in der O'Neill Gebäude, Personen und Maschinen ineinander verschmilzt, dass man oft zweimal hinschauen muss, was man da gerade betrachtet. Insgesamt sind die Personen sehr architektural und objektifiziert - ist das vielleicht eine Anspielung auf deren archetypischen Charakter und den titanischen Kampf, den sie führen?
Wer das frühe Warhammer und Warhammer 40k kennt, das noch nicht jugendfreigabeweichgespült war, könnte ahnen, worauf er sich einlässt. Nur ist selbst dieses Warhammer sehr konventionell im Vergleich zu "Nemesis the Warlock" - und das will was heißen!
Die Story ist ganz typisch für die britische 2000AD-Welt: Außerirdische, die sich gegen Tyrannei und Bigotterie verbünden. Unserer Welt und Historie wird ein Spiegel vorgehalten, der durch die Verzerrung und Übersteigerung ins Absurde ein satirisches Bild zeigt, das schwärzer, böser und verachtungsvoller nicht sein könnte. Die wirklich beißende Satire wird dann noch in eine ansprechende, wenn auch heutzutage etwas klischeebeladen wirkende SF- und Fantasy-Story verpackt und mit einem brutal-aggressiven Zeichenstil voller gotischer Elemente vom kantigen Kevin O'Neill verziert, der einem wie Blei im Magen liegt.
Mir gefällt die groteske, zurückhaltungslos-barocke Art, in der O'Neill Gebäude, Personen und Maschinen ineinander verschmilzt, dass man oft zweimal hinschauen muss, was man da gerade betrachtet. Insgesamt sind die Personen sehr architektural und objektifiziert - ist das vielleicht eine Anspielung auf deren archetypischen Charakter und den titanischen Kampf, den sie führen?
Wer das frühe Warhammer und Warhammer 40k kennt, das noch nicht jugendfreigabeweichgespült war, könnte ahnen, worauf er sich einlässt. Nur ist selbst dieses Warhammer sehr konventionell im Vergleich zu "Nemesis the Warlock" - und das will was heißen!
September 4, 2011
The script is a little dated (it was written in 1980), though it still has the 2000AD dark humour and originality. But the art is just so damn good, Kevin O'Neill is definitely one of my favourite illustrators. It's a crying shame he didn't stay on for the rest of the series.
It's been twenty years since I first read this, and it's interesting looking at it now how much Warhammer 40k took from it.
It's been twenty years since I first read this, and it's interesting looking at it now how much Warhammer 40k took from it.
February 10, 2016
Very good dark futuristic Sifi comic story. The main character is a very different alien hero. Very Recommended
April 1, 2023
I enjoyed Nemesis, it feels old but the art is great and the script holds up well.
It’s been reprinted twice, the black and white “complete Warlock” which has much nicer art but some panels and intro pages are cut out. The second one is the more recent color edition, a more complete version but the colors hide half the genius from O’Neil’s line art which is amazing here.
It’s been reprinted twice, the black and white “complete Warlock” which has much nicer art but some panels and intro pages are cut out. The second one is the more recent color edition, a more complete version but the colors hide half the genius from O’Neil’s line art which is amazing here.
May 24, 2022
The first couple of stories are pretty basic but overall this is an excellent introduction to the world of Nemesis. Brutal, bizarre, funny and political. One of the stand-out series from 2000AD and one I'm very much enjoying revisiting.
December 9, 2014
En ole kauhiasti Millsin tarinoista pitäny, mutta tämä kyllä toimi. Tai sitten olin vain vaikuttunut O'Neillin yksityiskohtaisesta gootti-taiteesta.
Ja kyllä, edelleen minua ärsyttää fantasiassa hahmojen nimet: Riepuyrtti, Rämepapu. Voi jeesus.
Ja kyllä, edelleen minua ärsyttää fantasiassa hahmojen nimet: Riepuyrtti, Rämepapu. Voi jeesus.
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