Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows produced one of the most popular zombie comics around in Crossed. Now these two creators are tackling the sword and sorcery genre with Babs. If you enjoy comics like Conan and Red Sonja but crave more dark, irreverent humor, this might be just the book for you.
Babs is a six-issue limited series published by Ahoy Comics. IGN can exclusively reveal the cover to Babs #1 below:
Here's the official description for Babs:
The series introduces Babs, a skilled barbarian thief with an itchy metal wardrobe and the world's worst enchanted sword (named Barry). Together Babs and Barry travel the highways and byways of a fabulous fantasy universe—a world of wizards and dragons, trolls and demons, towering palaces and piles of magic treasure—aiming to strike it rich. But Tiberius Toledo, and his band of very white knights, have different plans. While enacting her latest half-assed get-rich-slow scheme, Babs uncovers Toledo’s foul plot to exploit the baser instincts of the local townsfolk, landing her headfirst into an epic battle. Babs wasn’t looking for a fight…but then again, she’s never found a bad situation she couldn’t make a hundred times worse...
“I've been lucky enough to work in a lot of genres over the years but I have always wanted to work on a fantasy story,” said Burrows in Ahoy's press release. “I'm having such a great time getting to design the world and characters and I can't wait to take readers on this wild ride. The humor, the action, the wild creatures, and settings, this really is a dream project for me!”
“Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows master the genre of orcs, dragons, and living swords, adding an ill-gotten bounty of humor and heart,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “Babs herself—an outsized spirit of greed, frustration, courage, and comic violence—will linger in your memory.”
Babs #1 will be released on July 17, 2024.
In other comic book news, Wolverine and Deadpool are about to start WWIII in the Marvel Universe, and the TMNT franchise is about to have a big Turtle-Verse crossover.
Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.
