Brian Wood is returning to the world of Vikings with Black Road, a new ongoing series from Image Comics. Wood previously penned tales set in the savage, blood-soaked land of Vikings with Northlanders for DC Comics several years ago.
The series, which debuts in April, was first announced last year at Image Expo. Gary Brown and Dave McCaig will handle the art duties for the series.
Black Road stars Magnus the Black, a man who is neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but a man true to his word. When a ranking official in his car is savagely murdered, Magnus takes revenge into his own hands, hunting the killers to the frozen tip of Norway.
“With Northlanders I went strictly historical,” said Wood. “But here we’re creating this almost heightened take on the Viking times, where Christian conversion was more like a military occupation, with churches dotting the landscape like green zones and there’s this highway of death heading forever northwards…. this is the Black Road. Anything, and everything, can happen on the cold road north.”
When Wood first described Magnus the Black at Image Expo, he calling his creation “a creaky fellow who suffers the boot of daily life but shows his steel where and when it counts.” Since then, Wood has described Magnus as “a skeptic of the highest sort but operating with a very strong personal moral code. He’s suffered tremendously in his life, but keeps moving forward, keeps pushing on like an inexorable force of nature.”
“It’s been a thrill to work on the book,” said Brown. “Drawing the environments and characters has been really rewarding. Plus working with Brian on a grim Viking book has been excellent. I’m excited for it to hit the stands.”
Black Road #1 will hit comic book stores on Wednesday, April 13th.
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