''Harry Kipling'' is a comics character appearing in the British weekly anthology '' 2000 AD'', created by

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and

Boo Cook Boo Cook (born 1972) is a British comic artist, whose work mainly features in the comic ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. Career Cook's art has appeared in the ''ABC Warriors'' and ''Judge Dredd'', as ''Asylum'' (written by Rob Williams (comics), R ...

. He is a True Brit, trying to survive in a world of rampant Pantheistic solipsism aided only by strong tea and a big gun.

Plot

The story takes place in an alternate

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version of the

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(Neo-Britannia). The Empire has collapsed and every supernatural being has somehow been physically manifested. The various deities and sprites pass their time eating their subjects, squabbling and fighting amongst themselves in hopes of achieving

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. They are fought by a single relic of the NeoBritannia Empire, Harry Kipling. A parody of a traditional Imperial man, he wears a solar topee, uses an

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and drinks earl-grey tea. He lives as a

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, dedicating his undead existence to the complete eradication of gods - "Proactive

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". In this he's aided by Neesha, a bewildered refugee from a war-torn planet, and Klux, a powerful but unintelligent engine of destruction. Kipling discovered he is the pawn of an unnamed god who is presumably more powerful than those he's seen before and probably the one who brought him back.

Appearances

So far he has only appeared in his own

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ous series, formed by the following episodes: * "Prologue" (in ''2000 AD'' #1476, 2006) * " Mad Gods & Englishmen" (in ''2000 AD'' #1481-1483, 2006) * "Whetting the Whistle" (in ''2000 AD'' #1492-1493, 2006) * "Something for Nothing" (in ''2000 AD'' #1497-1499, 2006) * "The Hitman and Hermoth" (in ''2000 AD'' #1509-1512, 2006) * "Winter Wonderbrand" (in ''2000 AD '' Prog 2007, 2007)

Gods

* The Family - ''Appears in #1476'' *

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the crocodile god - ''Appears in #1481-1483'' * Spider Queen of

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- ''Appears in #1492-1493'' * Ama-Tsu-Mara - ''Appears in #1492-1493'' * Ornumila the Wise - ''Appears in #1497-1499'' * The Anti-God/

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Commander - ''Appears in #1497-1499'' * Bellin-Bellin - ''Appears in #1509 - 1512'' * Hermoth - ''Appears in #1509 - 1512'' *

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Gods - ''Appears in #2007''

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