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Vault reveals that Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden’s Barbaric is getting an Adaptation from Netflix

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Netflix has announced it will be adapting Vault’s hit fantasy series, Barbaric, as a new episodic series. Barbaric is co-created by writer Michael Moreci and artist Nathan Gooden; Gooden is also a co-founder of Vault Comics. Debuting in 2021, Barbaric rapidly secured its place as a critical-darling and fan-favorite. As of 2026, Barbaric is currently on its fifth volume, and is one of the best-selling fantasy comics of the past decade.

Barbaric follows Owen, a bloodthirsty barbarian and his drunk axe as they roam an untamed, mythic realm battling supernatural cultists, hungry giants, creatures of the night, and more in their quest to somehow, amidst all this chaos, do some good.

Academy Award nominee Sheldon Turner will co-showrun and write the Netflix series along with Robert Rovner, who is best known for his showrunning and writing work on CW series Supergirl.

Also on the exec producing team are Jennifer Klein, Turner’s partner at the duo’s 100% Productions, Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson for A+E Studios, TV veteran Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and F.J. DeSanto and Damian Wassel for Vault Comics. Actor Sam Claflin, along with Luke Carroll, and Michael Stevenson, are exec producing via Soft Claw Productions.

Check out the series before it comes to Netflix and see what you’ve been missing!
Bookshop – Volume 1 – Volume 2 – Volume 3 – Volume 4 – Volume 5
Amazon – Volume 1 – Volume 2 – Volume 3 – Volume 4 – Volume 5

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Preview – Ramiel: Wrath of God #1

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Ramiel: Wrath of God #1

Diamond Order Code: FEB120734
Writer/Creator: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Colorist: Peter Wonsowski
Lettering: Deron Bennett

In God’s army, there is no warrior more fearsome than the Angel Ramiel – but when this enforcer of the Almighty is plagued by visions calling him away, he must make a decision that will shake the pillars of Heaven and Earth. A bold new vision of heroism from Javier Grillo-Marxuach, writer on the hit television series Lost and creator of The Middleman.

About JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH

Though best known as one of the Emmy Award-winning writer/producers of ABC’s groundbreaking hit series  “Lost,” Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a prolific creator of television, comic books and films. His TV credits include the Peabody Award-winning, AFI-Honoreee “Boomtown” as well as “Medium,” “Charmed,” “The Pretender,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Jake 2.0,” “The Chronicle,” “The Dead Zone” and “Law & Order: SVU.” Grillo-Marxuach is also the creator of the critically-acclaimed “The Middleman” graphic novels and television series. In comics. Grillo-Marxuach wrote “Annihilation: Super-Skrull” and “Annihilation: Conquest – Wraith” for Marvel and “Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse” for Dynamite. He is currently writing a pilot for TNT is association with Tom Clancy as well as “Unfathomable,” a new graphic novel from APE which will premiere in early 2013.

SDCC 2011 Sunday Panel: Diversity & Fandom 102 – How You Can Make a Difference

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Diversity & Fandom 102 – How You Can Make a Difference
Sunday, July 24 · 10:00am – 11:00am
Room 24ABC

In the wake of campaigns like Racebending.com’s protests and the rise of safe spaces like Racialicious.com, fans, consumers and creators from underrepresented groups have more outlets for speaking up. This panel explores how those voices can be added to conversations with geeky business interests and fan communities.

Actor Dante Basco (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hook), showrunner/writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach (The Middleman, Lost), author Malinda Lo (Huntress, Ash), Arturo Garcia (Racialicious.com), Phil Yu (AngryAsianMan.com) and USC Professor Henry Jenkins (CivicPaths Project) promise a lively discussion, moderated by Racebending.com!.

Our Panelists
  • Comic book writer, television writer and showrunner Javier Grillo-Marxuach has written comic books and for TV shows like Lost, Medium, and Ghost Whisperer. He’s best known for his nerdtastic comic book The Middleman, which he brought to ABC Family as a television series in 2008.
  • Author and journalist Malinda Lo‘s young adult novels, Ash and Huntress, both feature LGBTQ women of color as protagonists. Lo has a Master’s Degree in cultural and social anthropology and has also written for AfterEllen.com
  • Actor, dancer, and spoken word artist Dante Basco‘s breakthrough role was as Rufio in the 1991 Peter Pan film Hook. He’s probably best known to Racebending.com readers as the voice actor for Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
  • Arturo Garcia is the Site Lead at Racialicious.com, a blog that tracks the intersection of race and pop culture. As one of the primary contributors to the site, Arturo has covered several fandom rallies for diversity, including RaceFail’09 and the Airbender protest.
  • Phil Yu is the blogger behind AngryAsianMan.com, which regularly comments on the representation of Asian Americans in mainstream media. Phil has a Master’s Degree in Critical Studies and works as a content producer for Yahoo!Movies.
  • Media scholar Professor Henry Jenkins studies fandom and activism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. Check out his blog on “aca-fandom” at HenryJenkins.org