>IN AN AGE OF DARKNESS... AT A TIME OF EVIL... WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED A HERO
>WHAT IT GOT WAS ALIENS
Greetings Earthlets! From Ian Edginton and Leigh Gallagher, it's the ultimate battle between fantasy and sci-fi, fought within the thrill-powered pages of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, 2000AD! This is... KINGMAKER!
2000AD Storytime - Kingmaker
Aaron Roberts
Robert Johnson
Jayden Stewart
good shit op, been the best thing in the prog for a few weeks now
Bentley Collins
Neat! Storywise this is 100% my jam from the first installment
Austin Perez
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Christian Brown
It really is a Day One Winner.
Ethan James
Well.
Fuck.
Logan Johnson
Should we invite /tg/?
Leo Gutierrez
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Jayden Hernandez
Setting up the Sauron expy like this is just so fucking great.
Sure, why not?
Henry Clark
>dat sweet-ass sword
Oliver Perry
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Ethan Butler
Not gonna lie: this was the bit about the premise that completely sold it for me. Edginton described Crixus in the thrillcast as the kind of guy that in any other story would've been killed by the hero ten minutes in. Just a full-on cannon fodder orc turned savior of the universe. But how? Read on...
Liam Howard
Hey judge a question, is there any other stories with Emerald isle? Also where do i start if i want to read about the scottish judges.
Jason Ramirez
It's very fashion souls.
Nicholas Ortiz
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Nathaniel Thompson
There's "When Irish Pies Are Smiling", which was a Judge Joyce solo story in a special IIRC, and the much more recent "Blood of the Emeralds", a Carroll/MacNeil story that set up the Every Empire Falls epic.
As for scottish judges, Cal-Hab Justice in the Megazine is all you need.
Sebastian Wilson
Not JA but there's Cal-Hab Justice, a strip about the Judges in Scotland. IMO it's pretty fucking shit but YMMV.
Much later the Young Middenface stuff is sort of a future highland clearances story. Some of that is alright, some less so.
Camden Turner
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Parker Ortiz
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Jonathan Gray
And then... shit got REAL.
Benjamin Cox
Time to meet the bad guys!
Nathan Bailey
yey, best boy.
Now i have to wait 3+years for the trade
i remember really liking cal-hab justice on my read through, what didnt you like outa intrest
Oliver Perez
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Aaron Hill
i see this dude, and all i can think of is the skank from die antwood
Jaxson Bell
My two cents on it is that it's pretty fun and goofy for the first half, then tries way too hard to be a kind of broody dark Miracleman-esque romp and falls flat on its face.
Judge Buchan is cute as all Hell, tho'.
Cooper Hall
Here's the other thing I love about this series: a bad guy that's a total loser within his own kind.
Jonathan Lee
Spoilered just in case.
Justin Adams
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Nathan Green
Right one looks like an Eldar starship if I've ever seen one.
Aiden Harris
I just found it really messy honestly. I liked the first story and thought it had some of the most "real people" Judge characters we've ever gotten, kilts and swords aside, but everything after that was tiresome as fuck. It's not the full parody of Murphyville but I don't think it really knows what it wanted to be.
Oliver Campbell
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Ethan Bennett
This also sets up a potential really wide scope for this story if it's wanted.
No solar sails no dice.
Dylan Cook
Look at that smug bastard.
Sounds about right.
Oliver Roberts
>Old as balls.
Aiden Howard
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Matthew Ward
thats fair nigga
> it had some of the most "real people" Judge characters we've ever gotten
exact reason i liked it right there.
Gabriel Baker
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Cooper Rogers
I liked that neither of the Judges who survive in the first story is hypercompetent but also that it wasn't too bloody and it ends with a negotiation and a bit of clear-headedness. And then it's lol let's turn our MC into a real asshole and hey, remember Sabbat?
Charles Jenkins
>Unhand me! I dislike being molested!
I swear, that line is one "onee-san" away from hentai dialogue.
Caleb Nguyen
>My feet hurt
>Everything is alive
>There are too many birds here
>I want to go home
Sebastian Parker
>Sabbat
wait, sabbat was in it?
i remember blondie going all psycho towards the end, but no sabbat. You sure you're not thinking of Armitage.
Colton Bell
WHEN NATURE ATTACKS
Chase Roberts
I mean the "psychic necromancer goes insane" finish over the character specifically, yeah.
Austin Johnson
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Ryder Perry
oh my bad
Cooper Jones
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Samuel Morris
Fuckin' Elv--I mean Dryads!
Adam Watson
R.I.P daft punk
Hunter Carter
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Noah Foster
hey ja, could ya post the torrent link if you have it at the end of the story time.
Lincoln Perez
BIG JOBS
Chase Myers
Already here.
Joseph Moore
No torrent, but I do have a mediafire link, courtesy of a very cool user who rips and uploads most good 2000AD stuff on the win-o-threads:
mediafire.com
Asher Perez
Crixus' heart, she is broken...
Grayson Phillips
safe, thanks man
Zachary Bailey
Orks have... a hard life.
Jace Rivera
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John Cooper
MOTHER FUCKING DRYADS
Adrian Roberts
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Jace King
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John Smith
>Is there a problem? Do you guys need, like, a moment?
Tyler Nguyen
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Charles Rodriguez
i liked the alien general nigga, did he even get a name?
Daniel Gonzalez
Jeff Jarrett would be SO proud.
Dylan Howard
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Evan Price
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Luis Campbell
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Leo Morris
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Jace Murphy
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Logan Morgan
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Juan Evans
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Brayden Anderson
Owen Barnes
Mooom! CAPTCHA ate my pic!
Jacob Hughes
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Liam Allen
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Christopher Parker
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Hudson Nguyen
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Jeremiah Mitchell
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Alexander Gonzalez
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Gavin King
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Samuel Edwards
Shit, this is really fun.
Good premise and solid execution.
Joshua Hughes
FUUUU-UUUUUUCK
youtube.com
Camden James
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Aaron Miller
COME AT ME BRO
John King
COME AT ME
Logan Foster
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Camden Jenkins
Well... ain't that something?
So ends Book One of Kingmaker. What further adventures await our unlikely band of heroes? What alien devilry will the extraterrestrial overlords unleash upon them? Will we get a giant mecha vs massive ghost Sauron fight? Only time will tell! Splundig vur Thrigg, Squaxx dek Thargo!
Grayson Parker
thanks JA, been good stuff
gotta say it does bug me that current 2000ad never lets a story go past 12 or so parts anymore.
Kevin King
It has been a while since we had a big fat 20+ eps epic not starring Dredd, hasn't it?
Jeremiah White
Good stuff.
Jackson Martinez
im tempted to say the arc with Thorn and Oswin, but i think that was comprised of several short stories anyway
Nathan Thompson
Reposting the Mediafire link for anyone who wants to read this again in the safety of their own, un-alien'd homes:
mediafire.com
Glad you liked it!
Oh yeah, on aggregate that's a long-ass story. Maybe the Slaine Brutannia Chronicles series, but that one is also 10-12 episode books with some wait between them.
Isaiah Cox
brutannia doesn't really count, bunch of shorts put together into a whole again.
I think i remember hearing the new Bad Company was going to be a long one. Any clue on when its out.
Aaron Martinez
The new-new one? Dayglo is drawing it right now, so I imagine it's coming out later this year.
Andrew Ortiz
aye that'd be the one
Dominic Parker
Thrill bump!
Kevin Jones
Good read, thanks for posting Judge.
Angel Hill
Bump with a song!