The Autumnlands Volume 1: Tooth and Claw

by Kurt Busiek, Ben Dewey (Artist), Jordie Bellaire (Artist)

Overview

• When a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary hero back from the forgotten past to save their dying world, they get a hero unlike anything they expected, and trigger a crisis none of them may survive.
• From New York Times bestselling writer Kurt Busiek (Astro City, Marvels), rising-star artist Benjamin Dewey (I Was the Cat, Tragedy Series), and award-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire, The Autumnlands begins an epic fantasy tale of survival and adventure in a world of beast-wizards, sorcery, brutality, and hope.
• This specially-priced volume collects the first six issues of the hit series for adults that Wired calls “...deep, rich and quirky enough to stand leagues ahead of its competition.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632152770
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Series:	Autumnlands Series , #1
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	657,851
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Kurt Busiek broke in as a comics writer in 1982, with stories in Green Lantern #162 and Power Man & Iron Fist #90, both out the same day. Since then, he’s worked on just about everything from Action Comics to Zot!, including runs on Avengers, Iron Man, Superman, Conan, and others, along with co-creating Thunderbolts, The Power Company and more. Best known for his work on the multiple-award-winning Marvels and ASTRO CITY, he’s been turning more and more to creator-owned work of late, including such projects as ARROWSMITH, Superstar, Shockrockets and THE WIZARD'S TALE, and is currently working on more ASTRO CITY along with his new series THE AUTUMNLANDS, drawn by Benjamin Dewey.

Jordie Bellaire is a multiple Eisner Award winning colorist for acclaimed projects such as VISION, THEY’RE NOT LIKE US, PRETTY DEADLY, INJECTION, AUTUMNLANDS etc, as well as mainstream hits like BATMAN, DEADPOOL, MOON KNIGHT and HAWKEYE. She is writer and co-creator with artist Vanesa R. Del Rey on the ongoing Image Comics series REDLANDS and is the writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book series.

She lives in Ireland with her famous cat, Buffy.

Editorial Reviews

08/03/2015
Busiek (Astro City) and Dewey (I Was the Cat) bring together high fantasy and brutal science fiction in this lush new series. When a world of anthropomorphic animals is drained of the magic that sustains it, its ruling wizards seek help from the past. The Great Champion—who, according to their legends, first loosed magic into the world—is called forth, only to be revealed as a fur-less, shell-less, scale-less human being from a violent, technologically advanced world. Between bison attacks, savage bats, and shifty trade partners, the Champion and the wizards must put aside their differences if they are to save, or even survive, their crumbling civilization. Dewey’s art is absolutely marvelous, bringing light and life to every exquisitely rendered panel. Busiek’s writing is similarly detailed: despite a hefty cast, plenty of fantasy conceits, and quite a bit of jargon, the world of the Autumnlands never feels overwhelming. The comic’s greatest strength is its characters, and the success of further volumes depends upon Busiek and Dewey’s willingness to invest as much time into their development as possible. A solid fantasy romp for adult readers interested in swords, sorcery, and struggle. (July)

Publishers Weekly

11/15/2015
In a world of anthropomorphic animals, the magic is fading. But the wizardess Gharta (a warthog) secretly gathers a group of wizards in the floating city of Keneil to carry out her forbidden plan to save them all, by reaching back in time before the dawn of magic and bringing forward the Great Champion to repeat his feat of loosing magic on the world. The spells they weave succeed in bringing them a creature they've never seen before—a human man—but they also unexpectedly cause Keneil to fall from the sky, killing hundreds. Survival intrigues follow, involving the prestige-seeking Councillor Sandorst (an owl-man) and wandering trader Goodfoot (a she-coyote), while the human, Learoyd—a savage and canny fighter with an off-putting manner—enlists the young terrier Dusty to help him defend them all from surface-dwelling bison-men. The combination of the fantasy setting, complex plotting, and strikingly opulent, realism-based artwork make this highly reminiscent of comics from the late publisher CrossGen—except for Learoyd's foul mouth, gory battles, and incidental full-frontal nudity. VERDICT Colorful, entertaining fantasy with a lighter tone than many Image titles. Recommended.—S.R.

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