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BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 sells out and returns with a second printing

BOOM! Studios has announced that BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 has sold out at the distributor level the week of release! Created by the iconic Keanu Reeves, BRZRKR and The Batman Part II screenwriter and Eisner-nominated writer Mattson Tomlin is joined by hit artist Rebekah Isaacs, colorist Dee Cunniffe, and letterer Becca Carey, to bring to light a new chapter in the BRZRKR mythos.

The lone survivor of Olos, a long-dead–once thriving–empire, tells a tale of B.’s distant past and the death and cataclysm he brought forth. But what did B. find that could have driven him to such violent ends? The desires of the heart are as much a weapon as any in B.’s arsenal…

BOOM! has announced BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 Second Printing (OCT238367), featuring cover art by series artist Rebekah Isaacs, available in stores December 27, 2023.

BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 Second Printing

BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 delivers a fantastic one-shot

BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1

The lone survivor of Olos, a long-dead empire that once thrived, tells a tale of B.’s distant past, and the death and cataclysm he brought forth. But what else did B. find that could have driven him to such violence? The heart is as much a weapon as any in B.’s arsenal… BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 delivers a new entry in the myth of B, a solid comic anyone can enjoy.

When it comes to BRZRKR overall, I’ve been impressed. It’s a series that felt like a stalled movie pitch from Keanu Reeves when it started but it delivered far more than action and adventure and turned out to be a solid comic series. The world of B has expanded since then with BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 being the latest entry and again, it stands out in so many ways.

Written by Mattson Tomlin, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 is a comic any reader can pick up and enjoy. While knowing some of B’s history could help, it’s not needed for what is a symphony of violence. Action, betrayal, death, and destruction wait within the pages as we are told the tale of a fallen empire, one destroyed by B.

Tomlin does a fantastic job of delivering not just destruction and a build up to it but a series of twists and turns that add so much with each reveal. It’s a story that pays off at every moment even to the last panel. Like the main series this spun out of, the comic is far more than just one action sequence after another and by the end you feel for B and the manipulation he was put through. To make the bringer of death so sympathetic is impressive.

The art by Rebekah Isaacs is great. Joined by Dee Cunniffe on color and Becca Carey on lettering, the comic’s visual is packed with blood and destruction but doesn’t focus on it. There’s some shocking moments that hit home the strength and animalistic nature of B but it never distracts. The bodies, the blood, the death is there to emphasize what a force of nature he is. The colors stand out as well with some great us of red, yellow, and orange with fire often raging around the destruction of B. It could easily have been a comic drenched in blood red but it avoids that.

BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 is another great entry in the series and adds to the story of B. While I initially rolled my eyes at what felt like a movie/tv pitch, I’m actively excited to see it move to that and hopefully expand the world further. Even if you don’t know the story of B, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 is a comic to check out and it very well might get you excited to learn more and see what you missed.

Created by: Keanu Reeves Story: Mattson Tomlin Art: Rebekah Isaacs
Color: Dee Cunniffe Letterer: Becca Carey
Story: 8.75 Art: 8.75 Overall: 8.75 Recommendation: Buy

BOOM! Studios provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review


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Experience Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR with an all-new collection

Created by Keanu Reeves, BRZRKR gets a brand new collection featuring a pair of stories set within the 80,000 year history of BRZRKR in BRZRKR: Bloodlines Vol. 1, a softcover trade paperback hitting shelves Spring 2024. BRZRKR: Bloodlines Vol. 1 collects BRZRKR: Poetry of Madness #1 and BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1.

The renowned and record-shattering Keanu Reeves is joined by writer/artist Steve Skroce, writer/director Mattson Tomlin, fan-favorite artist Rebekah Isaacs, and colorists Dave Stewart and Dee Cunniffe in two unforgettable, violent tales:

In Poetry of Madness, B. safeguards the ancient realm of Atlantis as its unstoppable protector. But a sickly monarch symbolizes the rot within the city and the cracks created by a secret cult might spell the end of the legendary kingdom, one beyond even B.’s ability to save.

In Fallen Empire, a former kingdom decimated by the BRZRKR has a single survivor…one who must have her story heard and recorded else the same fate befall another damned kingdom.

BRZRKR: Bloodlines Vol. 1 will be available in comic shops March 27, 2024 and in bookstores April 2, 2024. It is available for pre-order at your local comic shop, bookstore, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.

BRZRKR: Bloodlines Vol. 1

Get a new Look into the Bloody World of BRZRKR with Fallen Empire

Created by the iconic Keanu ReevesBRZRKR and The Batman Part II screenwriter and Eisner-nominated writer Mattson Tomlin is joined by hit artist Rebekah Isaacs and colorist Jordie Bellaire to bring to light a new chapter in the BRZRKR mythos with BRZRKR: Fallen Empire.

The lone survivor of Olos, a long-dead–once thriving–empire, tells a tale of B.’s distant past and the death and cataclysm he brought forth.

But what did B. find that could have driven him to such violent ends? The desires of the heart are as much a weapon as any in B.’s arsenal…

BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 features a main cover by Rebekah Isaacs with colors by Jordie Bellaire, with variants by Joëlle Jones, Jenny Frison, and Yanick Paquette. BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 will be available on November 29, 2023.

Preview: Past the Last Mountain #1

Past the Last Mountain #1

(W) Paul Allor (A/CA) Louie Joyce
In Shops: Apr 27, 2022
SRP: $5.99

Critically-acclaimed writer Paul Allor teams with rising stars Louie Joyce and Gannon Beck for this thrilling geopolitical fantasy! Half a century ago, the United States rounded up and imprisoned all the fantasy creatures that live amongst us. Now, a faun, a dragon and an adorable troll boy have escaped confinement, and are on the run from the United States Army! Plus, we take you back to the war with short stories written by Allor and illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs, Chris Evenhuis, Paul Tucker, Joe Mulvey, Becky Jewel, Anderson Cabral and Aaron Houston! Special variant covers by Isaacs and more!

Past the Last Mountain #1

Vault Announces A Dark Interlude with New Series Artist Piotr Kowalski

Vault has announce the long-awaited return of A Dark Interlude with new series artist, Piotr Kowalski. Beginning with Issue #3, which hits shelves in January 2022A Dark Interlude will return to its monthly release schedule.

A Dark Interlude, the not-quite-a-sequel to Fearscape, is written by Ryan O’Sullivan, drawn by Piotr Kowalski, colored by Vladimir Popov, lettered by Andworld Design, and designed by Tim Daniel

A Dark Interlude #3 hits store shelves on January 26, 2022, with a stunning A cover by Ariela Kristantina and a gorgeous B cover variant by Rebekah Isaacs.

What sort of gibbering reprobate requires solicit information for the third chapter of a story? Why must I continue to write these? And don’t you dare respond citing “contractual obligations”. If we’re going to go down that route, then may I remind you that if it wasn’t for me, nobody would have heard of… [Message truncated once again, with apologies, at the request of Vault Comics].

A Dark Interlude

Preview: Voyage to the Stars #2 (of 4)

Voyage to the Stars #2 (of 4)

(W) James Asmus (A) Connie Daidone (CA) Rebekah Isaacs
In Shops: Sep 30, 2020
SRP: $3.99

We’re sorry. Exemplar, the Savior of the Universe, can’t speak to you right now.
He’s… um… not feeling well?
But if you and the KNIGHTS EXEMPLAR armada currently surrounding our ship don’t mind waiting, our crew will have him fixed up in no time!

Voyage to the Stars #2 (of 4)

Vault’s “Greatest Hits” Comes to Heavy Metal

Vault Comics has announced a partnership with Heavy Metal Entertainment. The partnership will commence today with the release of a selection of Vault’s “Greatest Hits” titles to date, featuring exclusive new cover design. Heavy Metal is focusing on strategic partnerships with publishers and content creators focused on their growth in the marketplace.

The first wave of product under this new partnership will feature Heathen, Money Shot, The Plot, These Savage Shores, and Wasted Space among others, and will expand in the coming months to include exclusive packaging of new #1 titles from Vault, with unique dress treatments and cover art, and a new digest format that will feature an entire line of select Vault titles in a serialized compendium style book format, and an assortment of merchandise created in partnership with Threadless.

Launch Titles From Vault

Heathen

Aydis is a viking, a warrior, an outcast, and a self-proclaimed heathen. Aydis is friend to the talking horse Saga, rescuer of the immortal Valkyrie Brynhild, and battler of demons and fantastic monsters. Aydis is a woman. Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, she is on a mission to end the oppressive reign of the god-king Odin. Heathen is written, drawn, and colored by Natasha Alterici, and lettered by Rachel Deering.

Heathen

Money Shot

In the near future, space travel is ludicrously expensive and largely ignored. Enter Christine Ocampo, inventor of the Star Shot teleportation device with a big idea: She’ll travel to new worlds, engage—intimately—with local aliens, and film her exploits for a jaded earth populace trying to find something new on the internet. Now, Chris and her merry band of scientist-cum-pornstars explore the universe, each other, and the complexities of sex in MONEY SHOT! A story about scientists having sex with aliens for the glory of mankind—and money, written by Tim Seeley and Sarah Beattie, drawn by Rebekah Isaacs, colored by Kurt Michael Russell, lettered by Crank!.

Money Shot

The Plot

In order to receive… first you must give. When Chase Blaine’s estranged brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he becomes guardian to MacKenzie and Zach, the niece and nephew he hardly knows. Seeking stability for the children, Chase moves his newly formed family to his ancestral home in Cape Augusta — which overlooks a deep, black bogland teeming with family secrets.

The Plot is written by Tim Daniel and Michael Moreci, drawn by Joshua Hixson, colored by Jordan Boyd, lettered by Jim Campbell.

The Plot

These Savage Shores

Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself.

Along These Savage Shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.

These Savage Shores is written by Ram V, drawn by Sumit Kumar, colored by Vittorio Astone, lettered by Aditya Bidikar.

These Savage Shores

Wasted Space

Billy Bane is a prophet who got it all wrong, and the galaxy has been burning ever since. All he wants is to waste away in the darkest corner of space with his best pal Dust, a supercharged Fuq bot. But when a new prophet comes calling, Billy is summoned to save the galaxy he’s at least partially responsible for destroying.

Too bad he couldn’t care less.

Michael Moreci (Roche Limit, Wonder Woman, Black Star Renegades) and Hayden Sherman (The Few, Cold War, John Carter: The End) have thrown Philip K. Dick in a blender with Preacher. Take a sip and get wasted.

Wasted Space

Preview: Sabrina: Something Wicked #1 (of 5)

SABRINA: SOMETHING WICKED #1 (OF 5)

Script: Kelly Thompson
Art: Veronica Fish, Andy Fish, Jack Morelli
Cover: Veronica Fish
Variant Covers: Sweeney Boo, Rebekah Isaacs, Marguerite Sauvage, Cameron Stewart
On Sale Date: 4/1
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

BRAND NEW SERIES! Because you demanded it: Volume Two of the critically acclaimed Sabrina the Teenage Witch series by Kelly Thompson and Veronica & Andy Fish! Sabrina saved the day—saved her friends, her family—the whole town of Greendale really, and she should be riding high. But things are never quite that simple. She’s trapped in a love triangle, she’s having trouble balancing the mortal and witch parts of herself, oh yeah, and she’s being blackmailed. As if all that wasn’t enough, while trying to help Radka and Ren with their…supernatural problem, her aunts suddenly starting to look like people she can’t trust. What’s a teen witch to do?!

SABRINA: SOMETHING WICKED #1 (OF 5)

Preview: Sabrina: Something Wicked #1 (of 5)

SABRINA: SOMETHING WICKED #1 (OF 5)

Script: Kelly Thompson
Art: Veronica Fish, Andy Fish, Jack Morelli
Cover: Veronica Fish
Variant Covers: Sweeney Boo, Rebekah Isaacs, Marguerite Sauvage, Cameron Stewart
On Sale Date: 4/1
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

BRAND NEW SERIES! Because you demanded it: Volume Two of the critically acclaimed Sabrina the Teenage Witch series by Kelly Thompson and Veronica & Andy Fish! Sabrina saved the day—saved her friends, her family—the whole town of Greendale really, and she should be riding high. But things are never quite that simple. She’s trapped in a love triangle, she’s having trouble balancing the mortal and witch parts of herself, oh yeah, and she’s being blackmailed. As if all that wasn’t enough, while trying to help Radka and Ren with their…supernatural problem, her aunts suddenly starting to look like people she can’t trust. What’s a teen witch to do?!

SABRINA: SOMETHING WICKED #1 (OF 5)
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