The Mighty Barbarians
Collecting issues 1-6 of THE MIGHTY BARBARIANS. From the writer of Barbaric comes the world-hopping, skull-crushing adventures of The Mighty Barbarians! They’re barbarians. They loot, they plunder, they conquer. That’s what they do, and they do it alone…until NOW!
When an unstoppable force starts consuming one world after another, sorceress Morgan Le Fey uses her magic to assemble a team of skull-cracking warriors who must somehow work together to save all of existence. There’s the young trickster Anansi, Viking shield maiden Birka, the shape shifting Nanook, and their leader, heir to a fallen kingdom and mightiest of warriors, KULL!
Though their alliance is uneasy, they will do whatever it takes to cut the heart right out of their mutual enemy, leaving a path of ruin through everything and everyone that stands in their way!
Before The Avengers, The Justice League, The X-Men, before it all…stood The Mighty Barbarians!
Biographical Notes:
Michael Moreci is an American comic author and novelist writing in the science fiction and horror genres. His original works include critically acclaimed military horror comic series Burning Fields and space comic series Roche Limit, which was included inPaste’s “Required Reading: 50 of the Best Sci-Fi Comics”. Moreci has written two Star Wars-inspired space opera novels – Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem.
Giuseppe Cafaro, aka Peppe “Rain” Cafaro, is an established Italian comic book artist who has worked in the comics industry since 2010. After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he started to collaborate in 2010 with the Italian publisher GG Studios. He has worked as cover artist for Zenescope Entertainment and Image Comics, and as both interior and cover artist for Aspen Comics (Fathom, Soulfire) and DC Comics (Catwoman, Suicide Squad).
His more recent work includes collaboration with Boom! Studios, where he has worked on several Power Rangers graphic novels, and with Dynamite on books such as Vampirella and Sacred Six. Most recently, Cafaro has been announced as the artist on the reboot of the iconic Top Cow series Witchblade.
Title Notes:
The Mighty Barbarians pulls its cast from various works of myth and class pulp fantasy. Arthurian Legend, Folktales, Robert E. Howard, and more all collide within the smash-em-up team of Mighty Barbarians.
Moreci uses a combination of modern conventions and weapon-wielding action to craft a story that’s both great fun and brutal in its execution.
Perfect for Fantasy fans both the cast and the settings pull from both mythology and pop literary sources, providing sources of enjoyment for a wide variety of readers. Everything from Arthurian Legend, Folktales, and pulp sword-and-sorcery shows up to the fight.