Nemesis The Warlock Book 10 - The Final Conflict

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Apologies for the delay in bringing you your weekly dose of Nemesis! This should have landed yesterday, but we got a bit delayed with family visits over the festive break.

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I’m blown away by Nemesis the Warlock: the Definitive Edition, Vols 1 and 2. My compliments to the publishers, Rebellion, and especially their designer Gemma Sheldrake for the truly inspired front and back covers.

Volume 2 is now on sale from the 2000AD store.

Such a Definitive Edition requires a Definitive Commentary, a companion piece for when you’re looking at the beautiful art by art-creator Kevin O’Neill and the other talented artists that followed him. So it’s time for The Secret History of Nemesis the Warlock, an episode by episode revelation of what really went on behind the scenes.

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Episode 1: Return to Termight

It was great news to have Henry Flint drawing the Final Conflict. His style is arguably the closest to Kevin’s and this is evidenced on the opening page, where Torquemada leers evilly out at us from the Tubes. Henry brings the whole tube system to nightmarish life once again. It’s an amazing subterranean dystopia that I’m surprised hasn’t attracted the attention of a filmmaker. Combined with the page that follows, showing the even more bizarre and Hellish world above ground, it never fails to create a sense of wonder in me. There is some satisfaction in knowing that here at least comics have the edge over movies – despite all their CGI. I doubt any director could match the relish with which Henry has drawn these mind-boggling landscapes.

I always want to know more about how all these horrors came to be, there seem to be so many more stories waiting to be told, but perhaps it’s best that the mysteries of the petrified cities above and the termite cities beneath remain for readers to ponder on and find answers in their own minds.