Thrud the Barbarian is a comic strip that was created by Carl Critchlow in 1981 and soon went from appearing in fanzines to becoming a highly popular feature in White Dwarf magazine in the latter half of the 1980s. He has since appeared in his very own comic.
Thrud himself is a parody of Conan the Barbarian. He is excessively muscular, violent, stupid, carries an enormous battleaxe and is only interested in fighting and getting drunk at the local tavern, "The Hobbits Armpit". Carl Critchlow himself appears in the strip as Thrud's sidekick, following the simple-minded barbarian on his various adventures, such as the self-explanatory episode "Thrud the Barbarian Conquers The Alien Mutant Radioactive Zombie Killer Beasties From Outer Space".
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