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.

MOre recently, Heresy Miniatures have released two official, licensed Thrud the Barbarian miniatures. The first was a Limited Edition 'Strolling Thrud', which had a casting run of 500 and sold out in a little under a month in 2004. The second, the 'Classic Thrud' has Thrud posed with his axe and is still available now from the Heresy Miniatures site.

[edit] External links

• Official site - featuring archived comic strips
• Carl Critchlow's site

[edit] References

• Strike to Stun. Thrud Issue 1 review. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• Strike to Stun. Thrud Issue 2 review. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• TRS2. Thrud Issue 1 review. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• Bulletproof Comics. Thrud Issue 1 review. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• Heresy Miniatures. Thrud comics and miniature. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• BBC Cult. Independent comics. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• Silver Bullet Comic Books. Thrud Issue 1 review. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• The Stuff of Legends. Original Thrud miniature. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• Blood Bowl. Thrud stats. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• The Ninth Art. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• 2004 EAGLE AWARDS WINNERS. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
• Ace Comics. Bristol 2005 Convention report. Retrieved on 30 March 2007.