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I've had an email from someone who has been reminded of a Nemesis or ABC Warriors story by Avatar.

It possibly contains Nemesis protecting a species of passive aliens who lived in a huge
tree and the Terminators using massive bulldozers and killing machines to annihilate the
population.

Does that ring any bells? My first thought was Deadlock by Henry Flint but I don't think it is.

Cheers,

Wake

A long time since I've read it, but isn't that the backdrop to Book 3? The one with Mek Quake and Torque-Armada.

Yggdrasil.

Quote from: The Cosh on 01 January, 2010, 01:22:19 PM
A long time since I've read it, but isn't that the backdrop to Book 3? The one with Mek Quake and Torque-Armada.

Yggdrasil.

It most certainly is and a fantastic story it is too.

Progs 335 - 349 and I'm sure its in the recent Reprint Complete Nemesis thingie.

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 January, 2010, 01:45:23 PM
Progs 335 - 349 and I'm sure its in the recent Reprint Complete Nemesis thingie.

Yep. Book III by Mills & O'Neill, reprinted in the Complete Nemesis Vol 1. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

Cheers!

Jim

That's the one.  My comment therefore being entirely unnecessary. 

One of Mek-Quake's greatest moments there, and he has MANY.  Haven't seen Avatar (and won't until it's on telly and I'm bored - not a Cameron fan) so I can't even comment on THAT bit.  Thanks for reminding me about that, one of the great Nemesis storylines....

Thanks. I've passed the information on (and a link to this thread). Having seen (and liked) Avatar yesterday I should have another look at the Nemesis story.

Can't bring myself to pay for a Cameron movie (Terminator & Aliens aside, natch) but I'll confess to liking the idea, even if it looks like it MIGHT potentially be a firework display of visuals with a story tacked on. 

This way I get to be right on one hand or pleasantly surprised on the other.  Win/win.

Is anyone actually a James Cameron fan? I mean, I love the Terminator and Aliens and I've heard a lot of people say the same thing, but I've never heard anyone say 'I love James Cameron's films' or 'James Cameron is my favorite director'.

I always wondered why mek-quake looked like a cat in that story

They should have kept his tiny breeze-block head on the angle-poise-lamp neck (and naturally the same size) - he'd have looked brilliant with an absolutely TINY head that we'd all recognise.....  But the funny cat-head works too.

Quote from: The monarch on 02 January, 2010, 01:01:10 PM
I always wondered why mek-quake looked like a cat in that story

Quote from: Mike Gloady on 02 January, 2010, 01:37:37 PM
They should have kept his tiny breeze-block head on the angle-poise-lamp neck (and naturally the same size) - he'd have looked brilliant with an absolutely TINY head that we'd all recognise.....  But the funny cat-head works too.

It is because Mek-Quake while working for the Terminator armies got in to "Body Swapping" so his brain has been inserted in to the body of a 300' tall deceased robot . Also his original head would look pretty daft on a body that big  :D

Yeah, I remember why he got into body-swapping (pervert) and I agree it would have looked daft.  Hence why I think it'd be really funny.

His upright body/ies have the same head as his killdozer one did. after all.  I just thought grafting his head onto the BIG Terminator-built/owned one might have been a laugh.  Perhaps he did that first and thought better of it. 

Aye, the point about Mek-Quake was that the Terminators had lost the knowledge needed to make new robot brains (just a handful of scrolls remained), so had to rely on old and (let's face it) sub-standard ones.  New bodies they could just-about handle (see Torque-Armada, a fine example of cargo cult design), but brains had to be switched about. 

The siege of Yggdrassil and the Basilisks in Nemesis Book III was probably the all-time high-water mark of comic-book art, with more beautiful designs, panels and splashes than any other strip in history.  The perfect meshing of two utterly bonkers creators and two great strips, and an editorial environment happy to give them room: a story that only 2000AD could ever have run, and probably existed simply to tell. 

Quote from: TordelBack on 03 January, 2010, 12:11:55 PM
Aye, the point about Mek-Quake was that the Terminators had lost the knowledge needed to make new robot brains (just a handful of scrolls remained),

... And somewhere about this point, I find myself wondering, not for the first time, how many more points of similarity there would have to have been between Nemesis and Warhammer 40,000 for IPC/Fleetway to have sued!

QuoteThe siege of Yggdrassil and the Basilisks in Nemesis Book III was probably the all-time high-water mark of comic-book art, with more beautiful designs, panels and splashes than any other strip in history.

I'm about to get to this in the Complete Nemesis and, quite honestly, I can't wait. :-)

Cheers!

Jim

I love my complete nemesis gn book one its one of the best things rebellions gn department have ever done

This bit contains what is, for me, one of my all-time favourite Tooth pages.

Nemesis summons up an almighty hurricane to destroy the engaging Terminator forces. It sweeps through the ranks and causes untold devestation but also knocks over and destroys the Basilisk statue that the alien forces have been rallying around. The Basilisks are convinced this is an omen of doom and abandon all hope of victory.

In a lovely final panel, Nemesis quietly regards all this and simply says, 'There's a moral here somewhere, Grobbendonk.'




I wish I could find a scan, it really is a perfect page. Perfectly judged pacing and humour from Mills and O'Neill plays a blinder.

The seige of planet Demotika and the fall of Chira. IMHO the best of the Nemesis saga.











V

One of the few times in my life I read someting other than Dredd first. I remember sitting at my Grandmas on a saturday afternoon staring at the art for ages. Without doubt my favourite Nemesis story.

As I'm off work with a stinking cold, I have nowt better to do than rummage through old progs for scanning. Have to agree with the general comments - what a fine story that was! What's Kev O'Neil doing these days, and if the answer isn't drawing huge mofo robots, then why not?

Reminds me why Nemesis is possibly my favourite 2000AD series ever. Must reread them. In a perfect world the graphic novel reprints would include these coloured versions of the original spreads. What a treat they were.

QuoteWhat's Kev O'Neil doing these days, and if the answer isn't drawing huge mofo robots, then why not?

Working on the next parts of LoEG: Century, I most sincerely hope, otherwise he'll be on the other end of Mek-Quake's fury.

I'm hoping Mek-Quake will show up in the last third of LoEG: Century.

That would be the right thing to do. 

I think if I could own any one page of original comic art it'd be the big splash of Torque Armada.

With an obligatory goes-without-saying caveat of 'the' Sky Chariots splash, I'd pick as my 'only page' the one with Nemesis balancing on his dainty hooves on a thrown spear as it impales numerous Terminators.