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Screen Rant is excited to share an sole look atOni Press ' upcoming African fantasy , Akogun : Brutalizer of Gods . Covers for the serial , as well as a preview for the debut issue , have been revealed . The African drab fantasy series is barrack by folklore and Yoruba mythology , following a unseasoned warrior .
Akogun : Brutalizer of Godswill be a three - issue bi - monthly serial publication . Beginning in April , the oversize issues will be 40 Page . Akogun the Brutalizer is the name of the comic strip ' wedge , who is a warrior take up on the Supreme Being of his world . His story is being told by Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande .
This upcomingOni Press serieswill have several variate covers from Dotun Akande , Ramon Villalobos , and Grey Williamson . These will also include a 1:20 full art variant by Ramon Villalobos and a 1:30 variant cover by David Mack .
Oni Press will fall in forces with Elijah Wood ’s SpectreVision to build up a new comic imprint focused on paranormal storytelling : High Strangeness .
Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods Brings a Mythic Story to Oni Press
Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande are reunite together for this latest comical series . The couple previously solve together on Marvel Comics’I Am Iron ManandMoon Knight : Black , White & Blood . Oni Press comparesAkogun : Brutalizer of Godsto the storytelling tradition present in Robert E. Howard’sConan the Barbarian , Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’sThor , and theGod of Warfranchise . correspond out the precis here :
In an age call up forgotten … when man , monster , and the inspired all strode the Earth … a lone warrior emerges to try out the immortality of the savage gods who would deal destruction with impunity … He is a one - man reckoning that stands in defiance of his divine masters with a sword in hand and a thirst for godblood . His name : AKOGUN THE BRUTALIZER ! Ushering in a Modern epoch of African dark illusion on the ancient continent of Alkebulan , the mythic round of cosmic destiny and persistent warfare pits Isle of Man against god … and blade against brand ! Steady your mind and spirit for a glorious new comics milestone revealing the legendary source and battle - tested furiousness of … AKOGUN : BRUTALIZER OF GODS .
Akogun Creators Re-EnvisionTraditional Storytelling with an African Lens
Oni PressPresident and Publisher , Hunter Gorinson says , " Every generation of so , a new chance present itself to shatter , and then slowly reconstruct , the base of the mythic musical genre figure that we have dear and , in doing so , to make them solid than ever before . What Murewa and Dotun are create with AKOGUN is one of those rare , especial moments . For the first time , two Nigerien Creator are recasting the distinctly occidentalize mode of no - holds - barred tike - driven sword and sorcery storytelling through a clearly African lens of the eye - capturing an only new pantheon of gods and monsters in the process . "
Series writer Murewa Ayodele impart :
According to Yoruba mythology , we were all made by a inebriated god , and during one of his drunken shock , he also made dreaded monsters . The first of the idol to chatter this new , perverted world was the planetary god of war . When we discovered this little bit of our culture ’s mythology , we knew we wanted to tell a grainy fantastic story lay out in this primeval African universe - a human beings of barbarous furiousness , monstrous animate being , and gods who give in to primal , destructive itch .
AKOGUN : BRUTALIZER OF GODS is the story of a young warrior who happened to have found a niggling felicity in this unsafe world of ours . But when the god took that happiness from him , they find out what a adult male who has nothing else to miss is truly adequate to of . Dotun and I are having loads of fun say this adrenaline - filled tale . And with Dotun ’s phenomenal artwork , the emotions from the pages sweep you in . We are prescribed everyone who picks up the book is going to have fun with it too .
The artist ofAkogun : Brutalizer of Gods , Dotun Akande enounce , " I ca n’t wait for fans of the sensitive to have this Holy Writ in their hand . It ’s dark fantasy from blue fantasy lovers . It is African folklore like never seen or find out before . Murewa , a true map maker , has mapped out an exciting journey full of twist and quality . It ’s been a joy co - directing and give life to it . So , catch your pitchforks and torches . You ’ll involve it for this monster of a fib . "
Akogun : Brutalizer of Gods # 1will be available on April 3 fromOni Press .
Akogun : Brutalizer of Gods # 1(2024 )
