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| No despotic tyrant would be complete without a fashionable wardrobe, as Torquemada proves below (courtesy of Kevin O'Neill), sporting the original 'traffic cone' design, along with one of his catchier slogans... | ||
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the real Tomas de Torquemada - one of the Grand Master's more bloodthirsty
ancestors at the time of the Spanish Inquisition - wore garments and traffic
cone headgear of striking similarity to the deviant-killer we all know and
love. O'Neill merely transplanted the attire of intolerance from an earlier
age - including that of the Klu Klux Klan - onto the Termight state. It
appears both medieval and recent history is occasionally as murderously
anarchic, psychopathic and unrepentantly bigoted as Pat
Mills' vision for the future. For once, unfortunately, O'Neill didn't
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| One Travel Wire accident later, however, and Torquemada became the infamous phantom... | ||
| Kevin O'Neill offered up the crazy-eyed phantom of Book 1... | ...while Jesus Redondo gave us this rather dull, medieval-knight-style offering in Book 2... | |
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| ...but Bryan Talbot gave us the slightly more sinister Torquemada, hunting the streets of Whitechapel in Gothic London... | ...before building on O'Neill's more manic depiction in Book 3 to give us the simply grusome body hopping phantom pictured below... | |
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| We got to see Torquemada alive again, badder and madder than ever during, Nemesis Book 5: The Vengeance of Thoth. As the man himself said... | |
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Bryan Talbot's rendition of Torquemada was far more human looking (and in many ways more terrifying)... |
| ...as opposed to the maniacally deranged (and very wrinkly) version of O'Neill... | |
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Perhaps most interesting to note is the evolution of O'Neill's style, best evidenced here. It moves from the slightly more 'clean cut' of his early work into the realms of sheer anarchy, which lends itself beautifully to the nightmare vision of Termight... |
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| Ever wondered what The Grand Master looks like under the traffic cone? | |
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| Bryan Talbot gave us the first look during Nemesis Book 5: The Vengeance of Thoth... | ...while John Hicklenton portrayed his descent into decay and lunacy with a certain manic glee. |
| Clint Langly offered up his own take on the John Hicklenton image pictured above, during Hammer of Warlocks... | ...as well as a slightly more freakish take on the Grand Master... |
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