Step by Bloody Step
Description
THERE IS A GIRL. She has no memory and no name. Nothing but a GUARDIAN. An armored giant who protects her from predators and pitfalls. TOGETHER THEY WALK across an extraordinary fantasy world. If they leave the path the air itself comes alive, forcing them onwards. Why? The girl doesn't know, but there's worse than beasts and bandits ahead. CIVILISATION, with its temptations and treacheries, will test their bond beyond its limits. STEP BY BLOODY STEP is a fantasy opus from the Eisner Award nominees behind CODA (sélection officielle Angoulême 2021): MATIAS BERGARA (HELLBLAZER, THE SCUMBAG) and SI SPURRIER (X-MEN LEGACY, HELLBLAZER, THE SPIRE). Breaking new ground with the possibilities of sequential art, this completely wordless visual feast will delight fans of PRINCESS MONONOKE, ISOLA, and the visionary works of Moebius. Collects STEP BY BLOODY STEP #1-4Product Details
Price
$17.99
$16.73
Publisher
Image Comics
Publish Date
August 30, 2022
Pages
160
Dimensions
6.6 X 10.1 X 0.5 inches | 0.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781534322387
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About the Author
Simon "Si" Spurrier writes novels and comics. His work in the latter field stretches from award winning creator-owned books such as Numbercruncher, Six-Gun Gorilla and The Spire to projects in the U.S. mainstream like Hellblazer, The Dreaming, and X-Men. It all began with a series of twist-in-the-tail stories for the UK's beloved 2000AD, which ignited an enduring love for genre fiction. His latest book, Coda, is being published by Boom! Studios at present. His prose works range from the beatnik neurosis-noir of Contract to the occult whodunnit A Serpent Uncoiled via various franchise and genre-transgressing titles. In 2016 he took a foray into experimental fiction with the e-novella Unusual Concentrations: a tale of coffee, crime and overhead conversations. He lives in Margate, regards sushi as part of the plotting process, and has the fluffiest of cats https: //www.simonspurrier.com/ https: //twitter.com/sispurrier https: //www.simonspurrier.com/blog
Reviews
"STEP BY BLOODY STEP may be my new favorite comic. SPURRIER, BERGARA, and LOPES have created something that celebrates everything comics can be: mysterious, inventive, bursting with imagination, and also incredibly heartfelt without ever saying a word." --JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS)
"Rewards rereads. The visual storytelling is intuitive, but still kind of unique, and EW can confirm that subsequent reads can shed light on key details or transitions that may have gone unnoticed the first time." --Entertainment Weekly
"Full of grandiose environmental spectacle and giant-vs.-monster action, but there's just as much magic in the smaller moments, which show off a different side of BERGARA's ingenuity." --Polygon
"A gorgeously drawn introduction to a bizarre, fascinating, and wordless world." --Comic Book Resources
"This compelling epic fantasy features richly developed characters, breathless suspense, and a profoundly moving climax, all conveyed through illustrator Matías Bergara's (Coda) brilliant visual storytelling alone, unaccompanied by text or dialogue... An emotionally nuanced, action-packed, absolutely astonishing feat of graphic narrative." --Library Journal (starred review)
LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED) -- This compelling epic fantasy features richly developed characters, breathless suspense, and a profoundly moving climax, all conveyed through illustrator Matías Bergara's (Coda) brilliant visual storytelling alone, unaccompanied by text or dialogue. The story follows a spritely young girl and her hulking, armored escort on an arduous journey across a terrifically realized fantasy world. The path they follow winds through harsh terrain abounding with vicious monsters, yet they forge ahead, compelled by a magical wind that arises to prevent them from straying or turning back, and to usher them along whenever they take shelter in any one place for too long. While the girl's innocent wonderment at the world seems starkly contrasted against her fearsome guardian's propensity for brutal violence at first, Bergara and author Spurrier (The Rush) spend the first half of the story establishing how tenderly these two care for and rely upon on one another. Such deliberate character development pays off with intensely emotional high-stakes drama in the story's latter-half, which finds the pair entangled in a war between a technologically advanced empire and an apparently primitive, orc-like race. VERDICT An emotionally nuanced, action-packed, absolutely astonishing feat of graphic narrative.
"Rewards rereads. The visual storytelling is intuitive, but still kind of unique, and EW can confirm that subsequent reads can shed light on key details or transitions that may have gone unnoticed the first time." --Entertainment Weekly
"Full of grandiose environmental spectacle and giant-vs.-monster action, but there's just as much magic in the smaller moments, which show off a different side of BERGARA's ingenuity." --Polygon
"A gorgeously drawn introduction to a bizarre, fascinating, and wordless world." --Comic Book Resources
"This compelling epic fantasy features richly developed characters, breathless suspense, and a profoundly moving climax, all conveyed through illustrator Matías Bergara's (Coda) brilliant visual storytelling alone, unaccompanied by text or dialogue... An emotionally nuanced, action-packed, absolutely astonishing feat of graphic narrative." --Library Journal (starred review)
LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED) -- This compelling epic fantasy features richly developed characters, breathless suspense, and a profoundly moving climax, all conveyed through illustrator Matías Bergara's (Coda) brilliant visual storytelling alone, unaccompanied by text or dialogue. The story follows a spritely young girl and her hulking, armored escort on an arduous journey across a terrifically realized fantasy world. The path they follow winds through harsh terrain abounding with vicious monsters, yet they forge ahead, compelled by a magical wind that arises to prevent them from straying or turning back, and to usher them along whenever they take shelter in any one place for too long. While the girl's innocent wonderment at the world seems starkly contrasted against her fearsome guardian's propensity for brutal violence at first, Bergara and author Spurrier (The Rush) spend the first half of the story establishing how tenderly these two care for and rely upon on one another. Such deliberate character development pays off with intensely emotional high-stakes drama in the story's latter-half, which finds the pair entangled in a war between a technologically advanced empire and an apparently primitive, orc-like race. VERDICT An emotionally nuanced, action-packed, absolutely astonishing feat of graphic narrative.
