‘Nemesis The Warlock’ Definitive Edition: Five Volumes Of Definitive Deviance Begins In December

The brilliant Nemesis the Warlock is getting a definitive five-volume collection, beginning with Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s magnificent grotesqueries in December.

The five-volume Nemesis the Warlock Definitive Edition collection begins this December, presenting the landmark series by Mills and O’Neill in a comprehensive collection of the complete storyline in order.

It’s one of the definitive 2000 AD stories so it’s only right it gets this definitive edition, with future volumes including incredible artwork by Jesus Redondo, Bryan Talbot, John Hicklenton, David Roach, plus Tony Luke, Paul Staples, Clint Langley, Henry Flint, Carl Critchlow, and Chris Weston, before O’Neill returned in spectacular style (what else?) for the final Nemesis tale.

This new series of paperbacks of Nemesis the Warlock is being published alongside gorgeous hardcover editions with stunningly designed new covers by 2000 AD designer Gemma Sheldrake, and promises to be the best version of Mills and O’Neill’s work ever published.

The first 176-page volume measures 282 × 216mm and is on sale from 5th December, with pre-orders open now.

Along with the earliest stories ‘Terror Tube’, ‘Killer Watt’, ‘The Sword Sinister,’ ‘The World of Termight’ (Book 1), ‘The Alien Alliance’ (Book 2), ‘The Secret Life of Blitzspear’, and ‘A Day in the Death of Torquemada’, the first volume features development sketches showing the evolution of the cloven-hoofed alien freedom fighter Nemesis and his living spaceship, the Blitzspear.

And if you don’t know what Nemesis is all about – well, you’re surely in for a treat, it’s still one of the greatest of all 2000 AD series. Here’s the PR…

“Termight is the ruling planet of a cruel galactic empire, an empire led by the diabolically evil Torquemada, a twisted human despot intent on purging all alien life from the galaxy and punishing the deviants. His motto: Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!

But there is rebellion and resistance to his rule in the form of a devilish-looking alien warlock called Nemesis, who represents everything that Torquemada hates and fears. Together Nemesis and Torquemada are locked in a duel which will affect the fate of humanity and each of them on a personal level as their conflict spans time and space!

Burning with iconoclastic fire and wild invention, Nemesis the Warlock is the satirical sci-fi space opera that helped place 2000 AD as the true cutting edge, and catapulted Mills and O’Neill into the comics stratosphere.

We’ll be showing and telling you a hell of a lot more of this nearer the time, but for now, here’s a little of the art to tease you… ‘Be pure, be vigilant, behave!'”