Thrud the Barbarian

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Thrud the Barbarian is a comic strip that was created by Carl Critchlow in 1981 and soon went from appearing in fanzines to becoming a highly popular feature in White Dwarf magazine in the latter half of the 1980s. A "remastered" version of one of his White Dwarf adventures appeared in issue 46 of that magazine's sister title, the Citadel Journal in 2001, and Thrud starred in his own Eagle Award-winning comic title from 2002 onwards.

Thrud himself is a parody of Conan the Barbarian. He is excessively muscular, violent, stupid, carries an enormous battleaxe and is only interested in fighting and getting drunk at the local tavern, "The Hobbit's Armpit". Carl Critchlow himself appears in the strip as Thrud's sidekick, following the simple-minded barbarian on his various adventures, such as the self-explanatory episode "Thrud the Barbarian Conquers The Alien Mutant Radioactive Zombie Killer Beasties From Outer Space".

Thrud appeared in solid form as four special edition metal miniatures in the Citadel Miniatures range, one of which is pictured painted, Thrud with Admirer. The special editions were released in the late 1980s.