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2000 AD The Ultimate Collection #8
Nikolai Dante//Volume One. (2000 AD The Ultimate Collection, #72).
It is the year 2666 AD, and Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror rules imperial Russia with an iron fist. But trouble is brewing with the House of Romanov, the most powerful dynasty beside the Tsar’s own, and conflict seems inevitable. Into this dangerous world steps Nikolai Dante – rogue, thief and ladies’ man, whose adventures soon become legend... Don’t miss the start of a sweeping swashbuckling SF saga from writer Robbie Morrison (Shakara) and artists Simon Fraser (Doctor Who), Chris Weston (Ministry of Space), Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) and Henry Flint (Judge Dredd)!
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216 pages, Hardcover
Published December 6, 2017
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January 5, 2018
Love Nikolai Dante... I think the original pitch for the series sums it up perfectly... what would happen if Han Solo had been given a lightsaber... Nikolai is a swashbuckling, rogueish, sarcastic Russian theif/aristocrat in the year 2666. He shwashes and buckles his way across the kingdom of the Tzar, leaving chaos, mayhem and satisfied women in his wake.
January 7, 2018
Perfectly summed up as what would've happened if Han Solo got the lightsaber. Russian scruffy nerf herder and all round ladies man discovers he's actually a Romanov, one of the most powerful families in Russia, but he doesn't let that change him, if anything it just amplifies his exploits.
Great fun.
Great fun.
June 6, 2025
wonderful storytelling
October 13, 2020
Nikolai Dante was one of those strips that, along with SinDex and revamped Rogue Trooper, stopped me reading 2000ad for a couple of years. Never liked it, couldn’t get into it.
So reading a collected version of it from the beginning gave me a great surprise: I LOVED it. It’s just swashbuckling, humourous fun. The book looks gorgeous, too, easily the best so far in the collection.
One word of warning: if you want to read the strip totally blind and experience the shocks and twists, DONT read Matt Smith’s forewords in any of these. I’d rather have not known certain things about lineage before reading the strip.
So reading a collected version of it from the beginning gave me a great surprise: I LOVED it. It’s just swashbuckling, humourous fun. The book looks gorgeous, too, easily the best so far in the collection.
One word of warning: if you want to read the strip totally blind and experience the shocks and twists, DONT read Matt Smith’s forewords in any of these. I’d rather have not known certain things about lineage before reading the strip.
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