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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 457

Worlds of Warhammer: Dark Humour

October 2020·pp. 18–21

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Jordan Green considers why grotesque comedy belongs in settings filled with catastrophe and cosmic horror. Orks, grots and troggoths follow their own coherent but absurd logic, yet looking at those same creatures through an ordinary soldier’s eyes restores their danger and prevents their comic appeal from reducing them to harmless relief.

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