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Black Road #1 Kindle & comiXology

by Brian Wood (Author), Garry Brown (Artist), Dave McCaig (Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

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Meet Magnus the Black, neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but a man true to his word. When a ranking official under his care is brutally murdered, he's prepared to hunt the killers to the frozen tip of Norway, religious war be damned. Northlanders creator BRIAN WOOD returns to the Viking genre along with artist GARRY BROWN (The Massive, Catwoman) and DAVE McCAIG (Batman, American Vampire) in this all-new series.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01C9GMRN0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Image (April 13, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 13, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 79793 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 31 pages

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After graduating from the prestigious Parsons School of Design, Brian Wood spent several years in video game design with Rockstar Games, most notably for the Grand Theft Auto franchise before moving full time into writing. Brian’s comic book work has been published by DC Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, and others.

His original graphic novels are some of the most influential in comics. Starting with Channel Zero, his street activist call-to-arms, Brian has unapologetically made politics and socially conscious thrillers the center of his career. His DMZ defined comics’ response to the war on terror. The Massive took on climate change and next-gen environmentalism. Briggs Land, the crime saga set on a secessionist compound, tackled the scourge of the alt right. Starve is about food sustainability and class divide.

His historical fiction has similarly blazed a singular trail. Northlanders, his Viking anthology, set a benchmark in the comics industry. Rebels, his populist American Revolution anthology, is on the curriculum of schools across the country. Sword Daughter is a pulpy Samurai/Norse mashup, and Magnus Black, the brutal fixer in Black Road, is a Jack Reacher for the dark ages.

His YA books Demo, Local, Mara, and The New York Four have made YASLA and New York Public Library best-of lists. He’s also written for some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Aliens, Terminator, RoboCop, and the X-Men.

He co-wrote the award-winning video game 1979 Revolution: Black Friday and contributed story material to Fox’s upcoming Alien shooter.

He’s written TV pilots for AMC, Team Downey and Sonar Entertainment, and WV Enterprises. His DMZ is currently in production at HBO Max with Ava DuVernay directing.

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Liz Perez

Great but Short

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2018

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This is a comic book of a sort but the intensity captures me with the idea of what was considered the norm at the time, this book really does set the mood for the next week, I recommend it to those who like comics but in a story book kind of bloody tale

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DJ

Been waiting 2 years for this… and I’m a bit underwhelmed.

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2016

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I first heard about Black Road, back in end of 2014, for Image Comic’s Comic Solicitation for 2015 - its release date was set for November 2015. Yet, here I am in April of 2016(!) reading the first issue! Almost 2 whole years after I first heard of it! Next to I Hate Fairyland , this was the series I was most excited to check out in 2015. So, when I saw it finally had a set release date, I marked that on my calendar. I don’t know what caused the delay - I’ll have to look that up - but maybe it could used some more time. I’m a bit underwhelmed.

It is the time of the Conversion. The Christians have moved their way up to Norskk. Churches are rising everywhere, and so are the taxes; The Christians are changing Norskk with both words and iron and with blood. There is one man, Magnus, who has recently lost his wife, who has yet to decided which side he is on, but when he is payed money to take a Cardinal across the Black Road, his decision may become easier to make.

I think this is a internist set-up for a story: Christians invading Norskk, trying to spread their religion, and in doing so, turn up incredible amounts of violence and blood; and there is one Norskk, Magnus, who lost his wife, and now is deciding if he should join and fight for them because of the afterlife potential for his wife. I picture Magnus going off on some type of quest, killing tons of people, and constantly under the pressure of the deciding wether to leave his religion for one that has an after life, but that has also caused an incredible amount of pain and trouble for his homeland. It would seem like joining the Christians, in this story, would be like joining the bad guys. But if he doesn’t, then he will never get a chance to see his wife again.

Now that could still the be the main plot of the series, and based off of the first issue, it seems like I’ve hit the nail right on the head - but I think that my idea of what the plot outline could be is more… solid(?) than how it is presented in the story.

Issue one started off great, with a prologue page of a sailor’s story of how he dropped off a bunch of Christian priests at their massive temple on Norskk, and then watched them destroy his ships. Then we meet Magnus (a MASSIVE viking) burying his dead wife and then going into explaining how the Christians have affect his home.

Great set up to the story and great world building in the first few pages. Just from those first few pages, you already get an idea that Christians will not be the good guys in this story; that they have essentially destroyed the old ways of the Norskkfolk. A solid start. Where it is not solid, is in how the story is told: it was like reading a series of flashes or moments.

After the bar scene at the start, we go to “A Bit Later” for a page, where Magnus gets his weapons. Next page is “Early Morning” where he meets the Cardinal. Then fours pages later it is “Early”, and before the end of the issue, we go to “In Time.” The storytelling did not feel cohesive. Each section is clearly a continuation of another, but it feels like something was left out in-between each section; something connecting how he got from A to B. It was like a lot, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM; new scene, no intermission.

This comics actually needs some fluff. Everything is right-to-the-point (scenic jumping and conversations too), and because of that, even though Wood has done a great job at the world-building, character’s, and interesting plot, this jumping from point to point, is taking away from that, and making it seem like a short and shallower comic, that it actually is.

As I reflection on it now, this whole issue was setting up the world and the plot. The conversation were direct, and what they talked about, all related to how things in Norskk are now with Christians.

I do like Magnus’s character though! A giant of a man, with mountains of muscle to match. He is the loner; the quiet and strong type (we first him sitting alone at a bar table and wanting it to stay that way). Clearly he hates the Christian’s because what they have done to his home and people, but because of the change of seeing his wife again, he torn about what he should do.

While I did like this issue, after I finished it, I was leaning toward waiting for the trade paperback, but I don’t know… it ended with something where it I want to believe we are going to focus on the plot now, but I’m not sure if I want to take a chance. Yeah, this will be another one where I'll wait to see if it's worth it.

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-DJ

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