Dec 31, 2008
Time Out NY on NORTHLANDERS
Back when years only had three numbers in them, men lived or died by sword and superstition. After years of blade brawls, Sven—the lead of Brian Wood’s Viking drama Northlanders (DC Comics/Vertigo, $9.99)—decides to change his warrish ways and return to his family’s estate in Orkney. But in the first collected volume of this ongoing series, Sven finds that returning home can be the most displacing (and violent) journey of all. Amid all the enjoyably bloody battles and desperate sex (gorgeously rendered by Davide Gianfelice), Wood cleverly plays with the philosophical and religious shifts overcoming not only Sven, but the cultures clashing all over the world during the Dark Ages. (link)
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I have read just about everything you have put out since I first picked up Channel Zero back in the late 90’s. Pounded changed my life, I got every spring man record that Steve drew and I still list the last page of issue three as one of my all time favorite moments in comics. So when I say this, it is coming from the heart. I picked up Northlanders, and was BLOWN AWAY. As an artist and someone who studies norse mythology and all the scandinavian folk tales I can get my hands on I was floored. I had to sit down and read it three times in a row, I was so taken by the story. I can not wait for more of it. Thank you so much for this epic work.