Ukip leader sent up as rabble-rousing demagogue who invokes the wrath of Judge Dredd
The world of comics is full of colourful villains, from the sophisticated ruthlessness of Lex Luthor to the deranged megalomania of the Joker. But 2000 AD’s newest cartoon antihero, a suspiciously familiar-looking Bilious Barrage, exerts a terror all of his own.
After executing Margaret Thatcher in 1977 and turning Tony Blair into a monomaniacal superhero in 1997, publisher 2000 AD is now taking on Ukip with a story out later this year satirising the political party’s leader Nigel Farage. Complete with neatly side-parted silver hair and a party rosette, Barrage is shown grimacing in horror in an early image from the story – presumably as his nemesis Judge Dredd approaches to dispense justice.
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