Torquemada

Torquemada is a fanatical Grand Master of Termight, a future Earth empire, who leads a brutal crusade of genocide against all alien life-forms. Debuting in the 2000 AD strip 'Nemesis the Warlock,' he serves as the series' iron-fisted, xenophobic villain.

Few villains in British comics history have cast as long and dark a shadow as Torquemada, who burst onto the pages of 2000 AD and Tornado in 1980, conjured into being by the formidable creative partnership of Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill. A Bronze Age creation from IPC's legendary anthology 2000 AD, he has endured across an extraordinary 42 years — racking up 141 catalog appearances and seven key issues that any serious collector will want on their shelf. Sharing his pages with titans of British comics like Nemesis the Warlock, Rogue Trooper, Johnny Alpha, Ro-Jaws, and Hammerstein speaks to the rich, anarchic universe he inhabits. If you want to understand why 2000 AD became one of the most vital comics publishers of its era, Torquemada is essential reading.