Berserker Unbound Volume 1

by Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato (Illustrator), Frank Martin (Illustrator), Steve Wands (Illustrator)

Overview

A merciless sword and sorcery warrior finds himself blasted through a wormhole to a modern day metropolis where he must protect those around him from an evil wizard determined to send him to hell.

From the Eisner award-winning team of Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato Jr., and Frank Martin comes this urban warrior fantasy series!

Collecting issues #1-4 of Berserker Unbound and featuring a sketchbook section and pinups by Mike Mignola, Andrea Sorrentino, Dustin Nguyen, and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506713373
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	03/03/2020
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	1,101,015
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Lemire, is the creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder and Trillium. His upcoming projects include the original graphic novel Roughneck from Simon and Schuster, as well as the sci-fi series Descender for Image Comics (with Dustin Nguyen) and Black Hammer for Dark Horse Comics (with Dean Ormston). Jeff has also written Green Arrow, Justice League and Animal Man for DC Comics and Hawkeye for Marvel Comics. In 2008 and in 2013 Jeff won the Schuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist. He has also received The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent and the American Library Association's prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. He has also been nominated for 8 Eisner awards, 7 Harvey Awards and 8 Shuster Awards. In 2010 Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2020

A fearsome warrior called Berserker returns from waging war against an evil wizard to discover his wife and child dead and his village burned. After being wounded while pursuing bloody vengeance, he stumbles into a cave and falls through a portal that leads to the outskirts of a modern city, where a homeless man named Joe Cobb tends his wounds. While they don't speak the same language, the men nonetheless develop a bond as they wander the city, eat, drink, and come to understand that they are both reeling in the aftermath of terrible tragedies. Lemire's (Black Hammer. Vol. 4: Age of Doom Part 2) gift for crafting sensitive portrayals of characters wracked by loss and regret is always impressive, and longtime superhero artist Deodato (Savage Avengers. Vol. 1: City of Sickles) provides predictably thrilling blood-spattered action sequences but also proves surprisingly adept at conveying real emotion in what is ultimately a dialog-driven drama. VERDICT Lemire and Deodato Jr. put an unpredictably poignant spin on the sword-and-sorcery genre. This hardcover collects the entire four-issue series.

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