The SotI cast from left to right; Severus, Bob, Lyle, Aki, Brianna and Krin
Servants of the Imperium is a Warhammer 40000 comic that follows a team of Inquisitorial agents in their adventures across the Imperium of Mankind. The comic is based around the WarhammerRole-Playing GameDark Heresy, but also takes inspiration from the tabletop wargame, and the skirmish game Inquisitor.The artistic style of the comic has often been compared to The Order of the Stick, with which it shares many similarities. The main characters to date:
Aki van Corax — A teenage ganger who the party picked up in their adventures on Gloaming. Handy with a pistol and seems to have some medical knowledge as well.
Bob — A servo skull the party found on a pirate moon and adopted. In life he was a pirate lieutenant.
Brianna — An Imperial Assassin and object of Krin's affections. Tends to foil Krin a lot, despite their relationship.
Artificial Limbs: Apparently Krin has a bionic eye, artificial heart, synthetic shin and a bionic appendix. Brianna has also claimed to be heavily augmented
Big Damn Heroes: Bob saves Aki from a Genestealer with its tiny buzzsaw.
The Eldar do this twice: the first one, when they kill a cultist that was attacking the group while they tried to deactivate the bomb; the second one, when the Eldar Farseer attacks the genestealer patriarch that is about to kill Severus.
Lyle has the biggest one: when he kills the Genestealer psychic, all the cultists and Genestealers on the planet suffer a backlash that allows the defenders to win the battle.
Calling Your Attacks: Lampshaded and Justified. Aki asks why Lyle yells the names of his powers. He says everyone but him makes a huge racket with their guns; he feels left out.
The Cavalry: The Guard and the Skitarii arrive just in time to rescue the PDF commander from genestealers.
Crapsack World: It's Warhammer 40,000 after all, but the planet of Gloaming springs to mind, where everyone but the noble class live in eternal gloom causing them to suffer from rickets and anemia and as a result are given life-shortening drugs just so they can work unceasingly for the nobles.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Brianna, as shown by the increased frequency of her eyes being round with eyelashes, as opposed to her original slitted "angry" eyes.
Lampshade Hanging: In issue 110, Inquisitor Hunt and Lord Judge plan to make a large military operation with Imperial guardsmen and PDF forces to purge the Genestealer threat. They consider mapping out their forces with minatures and then realize it would be an utter waste of time painting them and setting it all up.
Lock and Load Montage: Invoked by Krin, as the party goes to arm up to fight the genestealers and their cultists.
More Dakka: Krin seems fond of this. Lamp Shaded in one of the first strips when Severus points out Krin carries 5 guns but only has 2 hands. Although later Krin has reveals that, as he never uses his pistols, he now uses the holsters to hold snacks.
Noodle Incident: Inquisitor Hunt and Techpriest Einklath have one in their past.
Severus: Do you remember the trip from Cantieus? Einklath:Affirmative. It is why livestock are still prohibited on Deck 12.
Rock Bottom: After the party was cornered by a released Daemon, who reanimated its dead cultists.
Severus: Great, could this get any worse? Krin: Ah M'lord? There's a huge bomb back here and it's ticking... Severus: I really should keep my mouth shut.
Rocks Fall Everybody Dies: Except for the heroes. The Dark Eldar, Cultists and the Treasure.... Not so much.
Sinister Silhouettes: One has appeared in strip #130, apparently saving Severus from a Cultist. They turn out to be Eldar, who are in a mission to protect Severus and his companions, as the Farseer states their survival is important to the Eldar schemes.
is a Warhammer 40000 comic that follows a team of Inquisitorial agents in their adventures across the Imperium of Mankind. The comic is based around the Warhammer Role-Playing Game Dark Heresy, but also takes inspiration from the tabletop wargame, and the skirmish game Inquisitor.The artistic style of the comic has often been compared to The Order of the Stick, with which it shares many similarities. The main characters to date:
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