Step By Bloody Step

by Si Spurrier, Matias Bergara, Matheus Lopes

Overview

THERE IS A GIRL. She has no memory and no name. Nothing but a GUARDIAN. An armored giant who protects her from predators and pitfalls.

TOGETHER THEY WALK across an extraordinary fantasy world. If they leave the path the air itself comes alive, forcing them onwards. Why? The girl doesn't know, but there's worse than beasts and bandits ahead. CIVILISATION, with its temptations and treacheries, will test their bond beyond its limits.

STEP BY BLOODY STEP is a fantasy opus from the Eisner Award nominees behind CODA (sélection officielle Angoulême 2021): MATIAS BERGARA (HELLBLAZER, THE SCUMBAG) and SI SPURRIER (X-MEN LEGACY, HELLBLAZER, THE SPIRE).

Breaking new ground with the possibilities of sequential art, this completely wordless visual feast will delight fans of PRINCESS MONONOKE, ISOLA, and the visionary works of Moebius.

Collects STEP BY BLOODY STEP #1-4

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534325524
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	08/24/2022
Series:	Step By Bloody Step
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	96 MB
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Editorial Reviews

"This compelling epic fantasy features richly developed characters, breathless suspense, and a profoundly moving climax, all conveyed through illustrator Matías Bergara’s (Coda) brilliant visual storytelling alone, unaccompanied by text or dialogue... An emotionally nuanced, action-packed, absolutely astonishing feat of graphic narrative." —Library Journal (starred review)

“STEP BY BLOODY STEP may be my new favorite comic. SPURRIER, BERGARA, and LOPES have created something that celebrates everything comics can be: mysterious, inventive, bursting with imagination, and also incredibly heartfelt without ever saying a word.” —JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS)

“Full of grandiose environmental spectacle and giant-vs.-monster action, but there’s just as much magic in the smaller moments, which show off a different side of BERGARA’s ingenuity.” —Polygon

“A gorgeously drawn introduction to a bizarre, fascinating, and wordless world.” —Comic Book Resources

“Rewards rereads. The visual storytelling is intuitive, but still kind of unique, and EW can confirm that subsequent reads can shed light on key details or transitions that may have gone unnoticed the first time.” —Entertainment Weekly

From the Publisher

★ 11/04/2022

This compelling epic fantasy features richly developed characters, breathless suspense, and a profoundly moving climax, all conveyed through illustrator Matías Bergara's (Coda) brilliant visual storytelling alone, unaccompanied by text or dialogue. The story follows a spritely young girl and her hulking, armored escort on an arduous journey across a terrifically realized fantasy world. The path they follow winds through harsh terrain abounding with vicious monsters, yet they forge ahead, compelled by a magical wind that arises to prevent them from straying or turning back, and to usher them along whenever they take shelter in any one place for too long. While the girl's innocent wonderment at the world seems starkly contrasted against her fearsome guardian's propensity for brutal violence at first, Bergara and author Spurrier (The Rush) spend the first half of the story establishing how tenderly these two care for and rely upon on one another. Such deliberate character development pays off with intensely emotional high-stakes drama in the story's latter-half, which finds the pair entangled in a war between a technologically advanced empire and an apparently primitive, orc-like race. VERDICT An emotionally nuanced, action-packed, absolutely astonishing feat of graphic narrative.

Library Journal