Nikolai Dante - A Tribute

[James Stacey]

awesomesauce

[Dark Jimbo]

Bee-yoo-tiful. This is why you're working for Tharg.

Oh, hang on - you're not. SORT IT OUT GREENBONCE.

[judda fett]

Dope!

[radiator]

Cheers everyone!

Just to check, top left corner, either side of the red sword, are those the Romanov twins?

Yep - Alexandra and Alexandr Romanov - fairly minor characters who only appeared in a few pages very early on, but I wanted to get all the Romanovs in there - see also Valentine Romanov - no way I was not gonna include him, such a wonderful character design by Simon Fraser!

I'm kind of waiting for someone to point out a really obvious main character that I've missed out! Was going to put Karl and Mina (Dante's sort of surrogate kids) in there, but didn't bother in the end.

Has Si seen it yet?

Possibly - I Tweeted it to him last night. He's been very complimentary in the past about various Dante things I've done, so hopefully he'll like it.

This is why you're working for Tharg.

Oh, hang on - you're not. SORT IT OUT GREENBONCE.

Heh. To be fair on Tharg - and this isn't a comment on whether or not I think I'd even stand a chance at getting published - I've never actually submitted anything to 2000ad!

Thought I'd list the characters for anyone wondering...

(L-R):

Back Row: Alexandra Romanov, Lauren Stone, 'Major Liberty', Emmanuel Chekhov, Luther Emmanuel.
Fourth Row: Alexandr Romanov, Richard Hawksmoore, Count Pyre, King Henry Windsor McKray, Akita Sagawa, Eloise de Janissaire.
Third Row: Viktor Romanov, The Countessa de Wynter, 'The Kraken', Valentine Romanov, Nastasia Romanov, Papa Yeltsin, Khara.
Second Row: Lulu Romanov, Andreas Romanov, Spatchcock, Flintlock, Elizabeth Hawksmoore, Katarina Dante, Jocasta Romanov.
Front Row: Raven Corps soldier, Dimitri Romanov, Vladimir Makarov, Jena Makarov, Nikolai Dante, Elena Kurakin, Arkady Romanov, Konstantin Romanov.

[johnnystress]

holy moley 

[Simon Fraser]

Now this really made my morning. That is excellent , good job Mr Radiator. I want that on a T-shirt !

[Emperor]

It doesn't get much better than this as far as praise goes:

This is so fabulous I felt I should draw it to your attention. Drawn
by Tom Berry ( Radiator on the 2000AD forums and @TheRealTomBerry on
Twitter ) it's nearly the entire recurring cast of The Adventures of
Nikolai Dante. Not even I have drawn ALL of them at once! Spectacular.

http://simonfraser.posterous.com/tom-berry-draws-the-cast-of-dante
http://simonfraser.tumblr.com/post/9121532491/tom-berry-draws-the-cast-of-dante

[Chris Fain]

That is breathtaking.

[radiator]

Just spotted that it also got a mention on 2000ad's Tumblr - very flattered! 

http://2000adonline.tumblr.com/post/9124494603/tom-berry-draws-the-cast-of-dante

[CrazyFoxMachine]

TOM BERRY. Nuff said.

[Steven Denton]

Damn thats good! that need's to be a star scan or poster of some sort!

[Neil McClements]

That's fantastic Tom, I've never read the story but so don't know the characters but it in itself is a great piece of illustration.

Went over to look at tumbler as i'd no idea what it was and found my self there!!! How's that then?

[The Monarch]

Is it sad I knew who they all were before radiator posted the list?

as for slightly minor disappearances

The grozney gang

juliana markarov

Mikhal Deriabin

and a member of the  Arbatov family...any one of them