Writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso are among the most beloved creative teams in comics, thanks to their collaborations on books like 100 Bullets and Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance. Now the two are reuniting for a brand new Western series called The Blood Brothers Mother.
IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of The Blood Brothers Mother #1. Get a closer look in the slideshow gallery below:
The Blood Brothers Mother is a continuation of Azzarello and Risso's short story from the anthology special DSTLRY: The Final Cut #1. The series also reunites them with 100 Bullets editor Will Dennis. Here's DSTLRY's official description for the series:
The Blood Brothers Mother follows three children—their step-father gunned down by their recently paroled father; their mother kidnapped; their family torn asunder. The kids set off to rescue her across the wild Texas frontier. Throughout their journey, they’ll face the harsh elements of an unforgiving landscape, filled with wild animals—and men—hungry for blood. Merciless bounty hunters and more pursue the children as they embark on a relentless quest to rescue their family. One of the children also hides a secret bound to complicate their passage.
Along the way, they’ll learn the real cost of revenge—not just in lives, but in how it stains a soul. While revenge may be satisfying in the moment, it leaves a yearning behind that lasts a lifetime. And once you taste it, nothing else is ever so sweet.
“Eduardo and I have been sitting on this story for years. When we first discussed it, neither of us thought we were ready to tell it. Our perspective, it wasn’t right,” Azzarello said in DSTLRY's press release. “Westerns are where America expresses its myths, but the truth of America is violence— something we first explored in 100 Bullets. The frontier was a brutally harsh environment, but fertile; it fed the extremes of human morality. The desert is a hell of a sandbox to set stories in.”
“The Blood Brothers Mother has offered an amazing opportunity to explore a time and place Brian and I have yet venture into,” co-creator and artist Eduardo Risso says. “It’s not the most friendly, but it should be memorable.”
The Blood Brothers Mother #1 will be released in May 2024.
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