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'''Doomlord''' is a [[British comics|British comic]] character, appearing in strips published by [[IPC Magazines]]. The character featured in [[British comics|British comic]] stories published in the weekly [[anthology]] ''[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]'' from 27 March 1982 to 14 October 1989. The strip was initially a [[Photo comics|photo comic]] written by [[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]] and [[John Wagner]] as ''Eagle'' experimented with the format. While "Doomlord" was popular with the readership, the photo stories had a more mixed reception, and from 24 September 1983 "Doomlord" turned into a conventional picture strip, with art from [[Eric Bradbury]], and ran until October 1989. The story began with a Doomlord - a powerful alien - judging the human race's right to exist. Over the course of the strip three different Doomlords - Zyn, Vek, and Enok - acted as protagonist.

==Creation==
Having persuaded IPC management to allow him to revive ''Eagle'', boys adventure group editor [[Barrie Tomlinson]] settled on [[Photo comics|photo strips]] to make the comic stand out.
Writer [[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]], a regular contributor to ''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]]'', also saw the potential of the format, which he was familiar with from girls' comics and Italian pornographic magazines, and created "Doomlord" with frequent writing partner [[John Wagner]] on a science fiction story in the format.<ref name=JDM367/>

Despite some similarities, Grant denied that the character was consciously influenced by [[List of Judge Dredd characters#Judge Death|Judge Death]]. Tomlinson and ''Eagle'' editor Dave Hunt found the costume for the character after scouring [[London]]'s theatrical and fancy dress shops.,<ref name=JDM367>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Judge Dredd Megazine]]|first=Stephen|last=Jewell|publisher=[[Rebellion Developments]]|issue=367|date=16 December 2015|title=Comicana: The New Eagle - An Eighties Adventure}}</ref> At the time, Grant and Wagner contributed so many scripts to IPC titles that managing director John Sanders requested they use pseudonyms to disguise some of their work, choosing 'Grant Grover' for "Doomlord".<ref name=JDM267>{{cite magazine |first=David|last=Bishop|author-link=David Bishop (writer) |date=5 February 2008|title=Interrogation: Alan Grant, Part Two - Partners in (Future) Crime|magazine=[[Judge Dredd Megazine]] |publisher=[[Rebellion Developments]]|issue=267}}</ref> Grant later recalled "We had such a laugh when writing it... My abiding memories are seeing the early Doomlord scripts in photo-strip and being blown away... I guess that a rubber joke-shop mask and a set of robes made Doomlord really stand out!".<ref name=JDM367/>

In 2005, Grant mused on the character's morality: -
{{Blockquote
|text=His philosophy is Platonic, socialistic and fascistic at the same time – the fate of the individual is unimportant, only the fate of the species matters. This makes it right and inevitable that an elite will arise to supposedly safeguard the rights of the majority (and keep them in line). And you can see the logic in his conclusions – mankind is polluting Earth to death, we're slaughtering each other with ever bigger bombs, we're on the threshold of space travel with ships bearing nukes. Shit, if I was a Doomlord I'd be putting the kibosh on the species too.
|author=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]
|title=Alan Grant Interview, Part 5
|source=''2000 AD Review''<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/features/interviews/2005/grant/grant6.shtml|title=2000 AD Review - Alan Grant Interview part 6|date=13 April 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050413195746/http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/features/interviews/2005/grant/grant6.shtml |archive-date=13 April 2005 }}</ref>}}
The strip's [[nameplate (publishing)|masthead]] would depict Doomlord's latest victim transforming into the alien.

==Publishing history==
"Doomlord" was popular with readers, and after the initial strip ended in June 1982 two sequels followed. However, the photo strips were not as popular, and turned out to be less cost-effective than initially anticipated. As of 24 September 1983, "Doomlord" returned as a standard ongoing picture strip, with art from [[Alberto Giolitti]] (under the pseudonym Heinzl).<ref name=JDM367/> The change coincided with Wagner and Grant dissolving their writing partnership; Grant continued writing "Doomlord" solo,<ref name="auto"/> though Wagner later reflected "the stories were a hell of a lot of fun to write".<ref name=JDM367/> The strip was now unrestricted by budget or special effects constraints – the first page shows Vek warping into a bird and observing a road crash from aloft. Grant later used the character's scenes with the Sousters to create a softer side he described as "surreal" and part of "his Coronation Street-type soap opera existence".{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Despite the series' popularity with readers, falling sales saw it end in October 1989 as more and more of ''Eagle'' switched to reprints. Selected reprints followed until April 1990, but the strip was dropped completely for ''Eagle'''s last revamp.<ref name="FleetwayCompanion"/>

In 1998, the rights to the strips created for ''Eagle'' – including "Doomlord" – were purchased from [[Egmont Publishing]] by the Dan Dare Corporation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dandare.co.uk/ip.htm | title=The Official Home of Dan Dare &#124; Intellectual Property }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://downthetubes.net/?page_id=101053 | title=Classic British Comics: Who Owns What? | date=4 October 2018 }}</ref> In 2006, [[Hibernia Books]] leased the rights to the first picture strip and published them in a collected edition, called ''Doomlord: The Deathlords of Nox''.<ref name=JDM437>{{cite magazine |last=Jewell |first=Stephen |date=16 November 2021|title=Cosmic Cuts|magazine=[[Judge Dredd Megazine]]|publisher=[[Rebellion Developments]]|issue=437}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/reviews/extra/2005/misc/doomlord/doomlord.shtml|title=2000 AD Review - Doomlord - The Deathlords of Nox|date=26 December 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226202355/http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/reviews/extra/2005/misc/doomlord/doomlord.shtml |archive-date=26 December 2005 }}</ref>

==Plot summary==
Journalist Howard Harvey and policeman friend Bob Murton witness an apparent [[meteor]] falling into local woods; it in fact a spaceship bringing a sinister robed alien to Earth - Doomlord, the self-proclaimed servant of Nox, master of life and bringer of death. The alien kills Bob and knocks Harvey unconscious. Waking alone, Harvey discovers Bob alive, laughing at his friend's 'dream' – however, Bob is wearing the alien's "energiser ring". Harvey pieces together what is happening – Doomlord has the power to murder people, and absorb their memories and personality by touch. He would then disintegrate their body with the ring, and then use another alien ability – to [[shapeshift]] his form to resemble his absorbed victim, and thus impersonate them flawlessly. In this way, he can move freely amongst human society, leaving only a trail of missing persons as he abandons each identity for a new one.

Harvey attempts to stop Doomlord, but is unable to convince anyone else of the alien's existence. Doomlord also seems invulnerable; however, this does not extend to his human form and Harvey takes advantage of that to shoot him - only for Doomlord to pass his life force to another person, and then grow inside and take over as if he had absorbed them. Doomlord manipulates Harvey into a trap, and explains his "dread mission" as a "Servant of Nox" – he is to be judge, jury, and executioner on humanity's right to exist, using the identities of members of society's elite as stepping stones to gather evidence. If Doomlord judges humanity as unfit or to pose a potential risk to the interstellar community, he will destroy it – the billions of deaths being inconsequential, as "The fate of the individual is unimportant when the survival of the species is at stake." Doomlord delivers a sentence of death upon humanity. He hypnotises Harvey to accompany him to a germ warfare establishment to watch helplessly as Doomlord constructs a virus to kill humans worldwide. However, Harvey manages to overcome his hypnotism through strength of will, and stabs Doomlord. The alien infects Harvey with his life-force but the reporter sacrifices himself by releasing the virus within the sealed laboratory. Harvey's last act is to inform the dead Doomlord that humanity had the right to decide its own fate.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|date=27 March to 19 June 1982|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref>

'Doomlord' is a generic name for one of many Servitors from the planet of Nox, who have taken upon themselves the task of species-level [[eugenics]] for the common welfare of the [[galaxy]]. The rulers of Nox - the Dread Council -      notice the disappearance of Servitor Zyn on Earth, and dispatch the novice Servitor Vek{{efn|Vek's name was however not revealed until the "Doomlord III" story, the Dread Council mentioning it when sending Servitor Zom to find the supposedly missing Vek.}} to investigate and possibly carry out Zyn's judgement. Vek's experiences of humanity are different from his predecessor; taking the identity of commercial traveller Eric Plumrose, Vek lodges at Mrs Souster's [[bed and breakfast]] in [[Bradford]], keeping her and her two young sons under permanent hypnosis so that he can remain in his own identity, as being in other forms saps his strength. He determines Zyn's fate and recovers his energiser ring. He concludes that humanity's problems are mostly social rather than inherent; humanity's leaders deserve the focus of blame, with the vast majority guilty of only apathy, ignorance and powerlessness. Vek petitions the Council for a review of Zyn's judgement; they give him one year to secretly influence humanity for the better, with execution to be carried out if he does not succeed.

Doomlord tries to clandestinely alter human affairs to make them pass the Servitor's judgement. Vek hypnotises the wealthy to place funds in an environmental pressure group called Alternative Earth and increases political activity amongst the general public. As time grows short, he shocks the world into [[nuclear disarmament]] by manipulating the American military into launching a nuclear strike. The Russians are able to destroy it safely and the near-miss shocks the superpowers into total nuclear disarmament. As a result, the Dread Council of Nox lifts humanity's death sentence and asks Vek to return to Nox. However, the explosion of the missile has destroyed his ship and he is forced to remain on Earth until a replacement craft can be sent.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord II|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]], Alan Grant and [[John Wagner]]|date=14 August to 29 December 1982|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref>

Unfortunately, the improvements to humanity are only temporary. An Arab state launches a nuclear missile, escalating a small-scale conflict and causing the world's powers to re-arm, while Alternative Earth's funds are embezzled by its director; Vek realises that [[human nature]] may be a larger factor than he realised. The Dread Council, having lost faith in humanity's ability to keep its promises, orders Vek to carry out the death sentence on humanity. Due to the fondness of mankind that he has developed Vek disobeys, revealing his existence to humankind and taking an open stance in his attempts to manipulate humanity, pointing out the sentence of death hanging over it if it does not reform.

Doomlord grants audiences with anyone who requests one. He reacts passively to bungled attempts at assassination, coercion, and propaganda by the British Government. As a demonstration of his power he even creates a virus to destroy the small town of Prattlewell. Eventually, Vek is tranquillised whilst in human form and is kept imprisoned underground; as he requires [[ultraviolet light]] for sustenance, he starves and his corpse is triumphantly paraded as a trophy. However, he has transferred his life-force to a sympathetic scientist named Denby and lost patience with humanity, deciding to carry out the death sentence. However, Servitor Zom arrives with the task of destroying both humanity and Vek. While Zom is on the way to create a man-destroying virus, humanity once more decides to abandon nuclear weapons and Vek kills Zom to save humanity. He explains what has happened and sets himself up as humanity's protector, knowing that more Noxians would follow to slaughter humanity.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord III|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]], Alan Grant and [[John Wagner]]|date=23 February to 2 July 1983|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref>

Still staying at Mrs Souster's boarding house, Vek has almost become one of the family, enjoying friendly banter with Mrs Souster and being a father-type figure to her sons Pete and Mike; however they are still hypnotised into seeing him as Eric Plumrose. The Dread Council becomes concerned at the lack of contact from Zom and contacts Vek to ask his whereabouts. Vek admits he has killed Zom to protect the human race and declares that the judgement is wrong; the Dread Council sends a trio of assassins called the Deathlords to kill him. Their combined energiser rings prove too strong for him; his ring is destroyed but the injured Vek manages to escape in the form of a dog. With the help of Mrs. West and her son Nick he is healed with a sunlamp. The Deathlords set up a shield around Bradfield to stop Vek escaping and decide to use his love of humanity to lure him out, sending hypnotic waves all over the town to force people to walk into the shield, killing them. Vek finds the energiser ring powering the shield, fending off one of the Deathlords and killing him before deactivating the shield and going on the run. Eventually, they grow tired of the chase and decide to lure him out by killing 104 humans on a motorway and sending a message to Vek that the next day they would kill 10,000 if he did not surrender. He chooses to face them at [[Stonehenge]], killing them both. Vek keeps the Deathlord's ring, aware that other assassins will be sent. Vek appears on global television and explains the Noxian ethical code and the Deathlords, pointing out that now he is all that stands between humanity and execution, and how he had rebelled against Nox to protect them.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Deathlords|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Alberto Giolitti]]|date=24 September 1983 to 3 March 1984|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref>

Shortly afterwards, Vek is taken to Nox by a fail-safe device in the Deathlords' ship when he tries to use it to rescue the [[Space Shuttle]]. He convinces the Council that the death judgement was wrong and to lift the sentence of death from Earth; however his crimes against Nox mean he is returned to Earth in exile.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Dread Council|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Alberto Giolitti]]|date=7 April 1984 to 2 June 1984|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref> As protector of Earth, Vek repels the Gemini Plague, [[genetically engineered]] [[parasitic]] insects used by the robotic Populators of Pollux to wipe out a planet's higher lifeforms in advance for use as a breeding ground<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Gemini Plague|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Alberto Giolitti]]|date=16 June to 25 August 1984|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Populators of Pollux|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Alberto Giolitti]], [[Eric Bradbury]]|date=1 September to 1 December 1984|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref> He also hosts "The Doomlord Show", where he would kidnap various public figures, connect them to an electrified [[lie detector]] to reveal criminal or unethical behaviour, punish criminals with political connections who could avoid conventional justice, and even respond to phoned-in personal grievances, as he can teleport directly there and employ intimidation.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=The Dying Doomlord|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]], [[Geoff Senior]]|date=15 December 1984 to 23 February 1985|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord Goes to School|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]], [[Scott Goodall]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=2 to 30 March 1985|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref> He also deals with the inadvertent revival of Zyn through stored tissue samples from Howard Harvey; Zyn resumes his attempts to execute humanity until Vek absorbs his life-force.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Return of Zyn|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=6 April to 20 July 1985|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref>

Vek decides to become a father to further his understanding of humans, particularly the emotion of love, so uses his bioengineering knowledge to artificially produce and rapidly grow a human-Noxian hybrid called Enok. Inevitably, Enok's human emotions and flaws lead him to delinquency. The Dread Council learns of Enok's existence and send the Firelords to destroy the impurity, while Enok murders Vek and wreaks havoc on Earth. Human Douglas Reeve injects himself with a stored sample of Vek's blood, thus becoming Vek. Unable to murder his own son, he abandons Enok on an asteroid.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Enok, Son of Doomlord|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=27 July 1985 to 11 January 1986|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Firelords|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=18 January to 29 March 1986|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Kangol|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=5 April to 14 June 1986|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref> 

Vek receives a Noxian lodestone to recover from a serious illness after a passionate plea by Douglas Reeve; the Sousters become aware at this point that they have Doomlord living under their roof, although the hypnotic block remains, so they still "see" Eric Plumrose.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=The Death of Doomlord|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=21 June to 1 November 1986|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref> He is later manipulated into freeing the Noxian mystic Orak by Lord Kev and Lady Shal.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord Kev & Shal, Lord & Lady of Doom|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=8 November 1986 to 28 February 1987|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref>

The galactic carnival of Tibor {{clarify|date=July 2024}} captures Mrs. Souster's sons to lure Vek as an exhibit. Upon their return, Vek, Pete and Mike find themselves in a parallel timeline, accidentally landing on an alternative Earth where his renegade son Enok has escaped his asteroid prison and enslaved the whole planet.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Tibor's Alien Carnival|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=7 March to 30 May 1987|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Return of Enok|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]], Dave D'Antiques|date=6 June to 19 September 1987|publisher=[[IPC Magazines]], [[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Invasion of Nox|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=26 September 1987 to 23 January 1988|publisher=[[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref> Vek also fights S.M.O.G., a [[terrorism|terrorist]] organisation{{efn|S.M.O.G. had previously appeared in the ''Eagle'' strip [[Manix]]. Manix himself is referred to at one point during this story, and also appears briefly in flashback}}<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - S.M.O.G.|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=30 January to 28 May 1988|publisher=[[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref>  
    
He has to undergo a psychological ordeal in the mystical Realms of Death to ensure his dedication to the Cold Blue Flame of Noxian justice. He is purged of his human emotions, becomes a Servitor once more, and returns with a burning hatred of humanity, charged with its execution, despite the fact that the Dread Council had lifted the death sentence.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - Realms of Death|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=4 June to 17 September 1988|publisher=[[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref> Fearing the result of the ordeal, Vek had previously brought Enok back to Earth and had placed him in his final growth cycle, correctly gambling that this would mature Enok and foster a love of Earth. Enok now protects humanity, whilst Vek wishes to destroy it. Vek has been given a new energiser ring which allows him to both animate objects (such as getting a [[chimney]] to fight for him) and travel through time, resulting in him destroying the advanced prehistoric civilisation of [[Atlantis]]. When Vek returns he easily killsEnok, but the Souster boys eat his blood as Vek torments the Earth; the older brother Pete manages to return as Enok and faces Vek in combat. Their energisers interact to render Vek permanently intangible, whereupon he retreats into hiding inside a mountain.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - Enok, Protector of Mankind|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=24 September to 27 May 1989|publisher=[[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref>

Enok finds himself continuing in Vek's role as Earth's now unwanted and resented{{why?|date=July 2024}} protector, fighting a pollution monster, alien mind parasites, and a{{what?|date=July 2024}} created by the siphoning off of part of his life-force. During the same period, the younger Souster boy Mike also becomes Enok, but with unexplained [[vampiric]] qualities.
The first Enok is killed fighting the rival superhero that had been possessed by the mind parasites, leaving the second Enok undecided as to whether to protect humanity or feast upon it.<ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=The Evil Alien Doomlord|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=3 June to 1 July 1989|publisher=[[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite comic|title=[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]|story=Doomlord - The Mind Parasites|writer=[[Alan Grant (writer)|Alan Grant]]|artist=[[Eric Bradbury]]|date=8 July to 14 October 1989|publisher=[[Fleetway Publications]]}}</ref>

==Collected editions==
{| class="wikitable" width="75%"
|-
!width=25%| Title
!width=13%| ISBN
!width=13%| Publisher
!width=10%| Release date
!width=40%| Contents
|-
|''Doomlord: The Deathlords of Nox''
|{{No ISBN}}
|Hibernia Books
|2006
|Material from ''[[Eagle (1982 comic)|Eagle]]'' 24 September 1983 to 3 March 1984
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=Specials&choice=Doomlord Doomlord entry at 2000AD database]

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