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I wanted to bring up something that seems to be missing from here... or anywhere else on Reddit, for that matter - Doomlord. This was a comic series originally published in the early 1980s in the UK by Eagle

Quick recap: Aliens taking up the title of "Doomlord, Servitor of Nox, master of life, bringer of death!", from the "unnatural" world of Nox, come to Earth with the mission to judge whether humanity deserves to continue existing. They've got this eerie, no-nonsense demeanour, and can absorb the memories and forms of their victims. Their weapon is an energiser ring that can disintegrate people and objects. So, they literally walk among humans in various disguises, gathering intel on whether mankind should be wiped out or not.

Now, it's not lost on me that the story was changing depending on who was writing it. One of the Doomlords, Vek, went through all kinds of moral flip-flopping. He started off bad, then turned good, then back to bad, and at one point, he even created a human-Noxian hybrid son who was good, then bad, then good again... and honestly, I lost track of what was going on and stopped buying the strip after that.

The Doomlords were consistently ruthless, though. They didn’t think twice about killing, always falling back on their reasoning: "The fate of the individual is unimportant when the survival of the species is at stake." At some point, Vek even mentioned two rogue Doomlords who treated killing humans "like swatting flies." You’d think that humans would either band together and protest Vek living on Earth, or at least come up with a way to take him and his human-Noxian hybrid son out, 'cause they had unchecked power and it seemed to me that they both were causing more trouble than they were worth, but that never really happened.

I'd love to see a TV series made from this - hopefully with a consistent storyline.

TL;DR: Doomlord is an British sci-fi comic from the 80s about aliens judging humanity’s right to exist. The story gets pretty wild with shifting character morals and convoluted plots. I'd love to see a TV adaptation that keeps the core premise but delivers a more coherent narrative.

I am currently making a new boys comic named riot and I'm looking for comic artists who draw in the classis humour style and writers who can write humour for children.

The Kickstarter campaign for The Chefs Of Death Issue 2 comes to an end on June 30th, so there's just over 32 hours left to back it, and as with our last comic all proceeds will be donated to charity, in this case Mind.

In the first issue of The Chefs Of Death the alien Zarmdov had plans to farm and eat humanity, and the English Prime Minister John Borrison cowardly attempted to help, but issue 2 begins with Zarmdov appearing to be missing. His distraught (and to be honest pretty damn evil) father will do anything and everything it takes to track him down, and he doesn't care who or what he has to eat to find his beloved son.

This involves a very special fictional guest star from an 80's photo comic, and some very special cameos from industry legends including frequent Alan Moore collaborator John Higgins, Judge Dredd and Batman artist Boo Cook, 2000AD and Blazer editor Steve MacManus, the man who launched Eagle in the 1980s, Barrie Tomlinson, and Marvel Versus Marvel podcast co-host Will Preston.

The Kickstarter has been updated to include a selection of pages from both The Chefs Of Death and it's sister comic Hawk 1982, and if you're able to back the comic it'd be enormously appreciated.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexfinch/the-chefs-of-death-issues-1-and-2

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From the team behind the 2000AD fanzine Sector 13, introducing Anno Domini 1900, the new anthology of Victorian science fiction, imagining what might have appeared, had, in 1877, a far-sighted publisher thought to combine the scientific romances, made popular by Jules Verne, with the talents of the greatest artists of his time to develop a new and exciting way to tell stories.

With stories by Kek-W and John Smith, each famous for their contributions to 2000 AD, and Julia Round, the comics academic who, quite literally, wrote the book on Misty, you know that we have an outstanding writing team behind us - with gorgeous art by Diego Guerra (who drew the cover), Scott Twells, Mauro Longhini, Adam Brown, Pau Scorpi, Mal Earl and more.

Paddy Brown delivers his best work yet, writing and drawing ‘Penny Blood’, and we introduce Pete Howard with his wonderfully funny ‘Penguin’s Tale’, colourfully illustrated by Adam Brown. Mal Earl, always willing to experiment, continues his Radclyffe epic, last seen in the online comic Aces Weekly, and Diego Guerra has supplied a stunning cover and ten page story, ‘The Woman Who Killed Louis Pasteur’, that really tries to get into the mind-set of the people of the 1870’s.

We also have Italian artist Mauro Longhini, on Kek-W’s ‘Monarch’ and Scott Twells at his inventive and psychedelic best with Julia Round's ‘Hell and High Water’. Add the atmospheric grace of Pau Scorpi’s spectacular layouts, designs and colour palette on John Smith’s ‘Feral Flynn’ and you have one the most varied and professional lineup of creators seen in the small press anywhere.

Mark Bennington, who worked for practically every humour comic at some stage in the eighties and nineties, has written and drawn a superb single page strip, ‘The Slow and Somewhat Irritated’.

Published by Sector 13 Comics in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this is the first of a series of themed anthologies, and will be launched at Enniskillen Comics Festival on 8 and 9 June this year - but is available for pre-order here:

https://www.boxofrainmag.co.uk/store/

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