I’m one of those poor addicts who has been sucked into Games Workshop’s line of miniature wargaming. It’s a dreadful hobby, not because of the content (which has to be one of the most twisted and yet amusing universes around – well, amusing if you have a twisted and sick sense of humor at least) but because Games Workshop has increased prices on most of its tanks and other boxed sets by between $5 and $15.

(Never trust a company that does a “price adjustment” to round things up to the nearest dollar and then a month later ups prices by $5 and then six months afterwards claims it’s doing a $5 increase on various boxes because it’s not had a price increase in years. Hell, why go up $5, when you could go up $1 or so? But I’ll undoubtedly rant about Games Workshop’s business practices later.)

Ahem, anyway, sorry about that. The site is called Tangents for a good reason, you know. Exterminatus Now is a delightfully twisted look at Warhammer 40K’s “Inquisition” genre, which has several army lists, a dozen novels, and even a separate small-scale (larger miniature) game system labeled (naturally enough) Inquisition. Or was that Inquisitor?

Exterminatus Now follows the exploits of two incompetent Inquisitors, and their fight against things Daemonic. The irony of this is that in GW’s Warhammer 40K universe, the humans are extremely homocentric and xenophobic (which is okay because the aliens are xenophobic as well and are as likely to kill a human as help one – this ain’t your father’s ET)… and Exterminatus Now is a Furry comic. So we have a humanoid rat, grey fox, cat, and… well, whatever Lothar is (Sonic on cybernetics?) fighting against cults worshipping otherworldly things that are just as stupid as these wannabe Inquisitors are.

It’s a delightful parody of GW’s little universe, and could only exist under the laws allowing for parody and the like… and I truly hope that the people over at Games Workshop read this comic regularly and get a chuckle out of it. Because it’s fun. So go, enjoy it. Or the Inquisition will hunt you down.