Warhammer monthly comic - issue 51-60, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

Issues 1-10 is here
Issues 11-20 is here
Issues 21-30 is here
Issues 31-40 is here
Issues 41-50 is 

Next up is issues 51-60...

Warhammer monthly - issue 51, cover artist Adrian Smith 

Warhammer monthly - issue 52, cover artist Paul Jeacock

Warhammer monthly - issue 53, cover artist Clint Langley

Warhammer monthly - issue 54, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 55, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 56, cover artist Mark Harrison

Warhammer monthly - issue 57, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 58, cover artist Adrian Smith

Warhammer monthly - issue 59, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 60, cover artist Stefan Kopinski

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 21-30, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

First up is issues 21-30...

Warhammer monthly - issue 21, cover artist Wayne England

Warhammer monthly - issue 22, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 23, cover artist Kev Walker

Warhammer monthly - issue 24, cover artist Paul Staples Jeacock

Warhammer monthly - issue 25, cover artist Colin MacNeil

Warhammer monthly - issue 26, cover artist Wayne England

Warhammer monthly - issue 27, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 28, cover artist Paul Jeacock

Warhammer monthly - issue 29, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 30, cover artist Mark Sasso

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 11-20, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

First up is issues 11-20...

Warhammer monthly - issue 11, cover artist Simon Coleby

Warhammer monthly - issue 12, cover artist Paul Staples

Warhammer monthly - issue 13, cover artist Simon Harrison

Warhammer monthly - issue 14, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 15, cover artist Paul Staples

Warhammer monthly - issue 16, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 17, cover artist Kev Walker

Warhammer monthly - issue 18, cover artist Karl Kopinski

Warhammer monthly - issue 19, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 20, cover artist Paul Staples

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 1-10, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

First up is issues 1-10...

Warhammer monthly - issue 1, cover artist Colin MacNeil

Warhammer monthly - issue 2, cover artist Kev Hopgood 

Warhammer monthly - issue 3, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 4, cover artist Kev Walker

Warhammer monthly - issue 5, cover artist Simon Coleby

Warhammer monthly - issue 6, cover artist Karl Kopinski

Warhammer monthly - issue 7, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 8, cover artist Logan Lubera

Warhammer monthly - issue 9, cover artist Wayne England

Warhammer monthly - issue 10, cover artist Paul Staples

Warhammer monthly compendiums - part 2

I've previously looked at Warhammer monthly comics here and here and here  without ever looking too much (yet!) at the various trade paperback collections that were published. Trust me, there's plenty of blog postings about those collections yet to come.

After the initial run of those collections in the early 2000s there was another run of reprints, this run were smaller in size (they're typically a bit larger than a traditional paperback book) and often featured complete reprints of strips (that previously had been serialised across 1 / 2 / 3 trade paperbacks).

The early trade paperbacks are a hard series to collect (partly because there are lots of titles) but these paperback compendiums seem even harder to collect. Anyway, I thought I'd start by just trying to see what is out there to collect.

So here's part two of my guide to collecting Warhammer paperbacks from 2004-6...  

Part one is here 

Kal Jerico - underhive bounty hunter (2006, paperback, ISBN 184416-2540)

Titan (2004, paperback, ISBN 184416-1234)

The call of chaos (2005, paperback ISBN 184416-1447)

Darkblade - Reign of blood (2005, paperback, ISBN 184416-2060)

Hellbrandt Grimm (2005, paperback, ISBN 184416-2079)

UPDATED: the collector's guide to 'The Redeemer' by Pat MIlls

I realised last night that my previously published guide to The Redeemer was incomplete (sob!) - so here we go, this is the newish volume to look out for...

ISBN 978-1-78496-744-4; think this came out in 2017. I can only find very expensive copies for sale so I don't have a copy to hand to check out if there's anything new / interesting in this volume.

This is what I had to say about The Redeemer series originally...

There are many good things to be said about the quality of art and stories that graced Warhammer monthly comic which ran from February 1998 to late 2004. As I didn't buy it at the time most of these strips are new to me, one that stands out amongst all of them though is 'The Redeemer' by Pat Mills.

Wikipedia sums up the plot (here) as...set on the Hive World of Necromunda, The Redeemer chronicles the battles of a small band of Redemptionists, fanatical and homicidal cultists of the Emperor, led by their supreme leader and arch-maniac, Klovis the Redeemer, as they fight to stop the Caller, a deadly and extremely powerful Ratskin Shaman, who is leading a horde of Ratskins, Scalies, Plague zombies and other Underhive Scum in a revolution against the nobles of the Spire. 

Inspired to read more about a chainsaw wielding maniac with a burning brazier on his head (whose catchphrase isn't quite 'be pure, be vigilant, behave' instead it's a deviant-taunting 'scourge and purge')? Well this is where to start...

In the Summer of 1999 Warhammer monthly went bi-weekly so that 3 special issues, featuring just material related to The Redeemer, could be published...

Issue 16, June 1999

Issue 18, July 1999

Issue 20, August 19999

Issue 22, August 1999

And this is what you got for your money

Issue 16 = a one-off introductory story 

Issue 18 = chapters 1-4 of The Redeemer and a Wayne Reynolds interview

Issue 20 = chapters 5-8 & a Debbie Gallagher interview

Issue 22 = chapters 9-12 & a Pat Mills interview & a Wayne Reynolds interview

All of the above is black & white art

The (black and white) work was then collected in this paperback volume in 2000, yours for £7.50, ISBN = 1-84154-120-6

Then in 2002 the main series (so ignoring the material in Warhammer monthly #16) was coloured and published in its own stand-alone mini-series (only one other Warhammer strip got this special treatment but that's a story for another day). So now you have...

June 2002, cover recycled from Warhammer #22; chapters 1-3

July 2002, cover recycled from Warhammer #18; chapters 4-6

August 2002, cover recycled from Warhammer #20; chapters 7-9

September 2002, cover recycled from Warhammer #16; chapters 9-12

This coloured material (plus a previously unpublished strip) was then itself collected, in 2002, in this fine volume, yours for £12.95, ISBN 1-84154-274-1

Note that in story-telling terms The Redeemer story arc is made up of 3 'books' - chapters 1-4 are Book 1, chapters 5-8 are Book 2 and chapters 9-12 are Book 3.