NORTHLANDERS
is a monthly comic book series created and written by Brian
Wood, to be published monthly by DC Comics' Vertigo
imprint.
The first story arc, entitled Sven The Returned,
will be illustrated by Davide
Gianfelice, colored by Dave
McCaig, featuring cover illustrations by Massimo
Carnevale.
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PROMO ART - click for larger versions:
 
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Partial list of the sources and
texts that were part of Brian Wood's research for the
book:
Non-fiction
-The Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley
-Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O'Brien
-Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by HR
Ellis Davidson
-The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown
-1066: The Year Of The Conquest by David Howarth
-Wars Of The Irish Kings by David Willis McCullough
-The Barbarian Conversion by Richard Fletcher
-The Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis
-The Viking Art Of War by Paddy Griffith
-Collapse by Jared Diamond
-The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danzinger
-The Vikings by Jonathan Clements
-1066: The Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford
-Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga edited by Fitzhugh and
Ward
-The Norsemen by Count Eric Oxenstierna
-The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings
-Battle and Warrior by HR Grant
-Battles Of The Medieval World
-Warfare: The Middle Ages 768-1487
-The Viking World by James Graham-Campbell
Sagas and Ancient Texts
-The Sagas of the Icelanders
-Orkneyinga Saga
-The Vinland Sagas
-The Sagas of the Jomsvikings
-The Tain translated by Thomas Kinsella
-Alfred The Great (Asser's Life of King Alfred)
-The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
-Beowulf
Modern Fiction
-Vinland and Magnus by George Mackay Brown
-The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollman
-Saga by Jeff Janoda
-The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
-The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone
-The Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwell
-Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Crichton
-Conscience Of The King by Alfred Duggan
-Viking Trilogy by Tim Severin
-Thunder God by Paul Watkins
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Northlanders
#5 in stores April 23th.
Coming in October is the collected edition of this first Northlanders
story arc: "Sven The Returned", all eight issues. Stay tuned
for details.
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A look at things to
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Northlanders #4 in stores March 5th.
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Northlanders #3 in stores Feb
5th. Newsarama.com has a preview
of it here. If you're in the NYC area, come meet me and Davide here
on the 8th.
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Northlanders #2 in stores January 2nd
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MySpace.com
and
IGN.com
preview Northlanders #2
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Advance reviews of Northlanders #1 are coming
in. See what Laura
at Bloggity-Blog-Blog, Jog,
Johanna
at Savage Critics, and Randy
Lander at Comics Pants have to say.
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IGN.com
and
Newsarama.com
and SBC
have art previews and interviews with Brian
Wood.
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MySpace.com has a 7-page preview
and exclusive essay by Brian Wood.
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Andy Khouri at CBR has a great
article about the book, the research and how it fits in at Vertigo.
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Me in Iceland at Godafoss,
where the Vikings chucked, literally, their pagan gods over in favor
of Lord Baby Jesus.
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on all things Northlanders, DMZ, and other projects.
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NORTHLANDERS #1 solicited
“At the end of Europe’s
first millennium stand the heroes who’ll define the next.”
Christian/Islamic conflict. Technological revolution. Fear of the
end of the world. Sound familiar? It should. But it’s not the
world of 2007…it’s the world of Europe, circa 1000 AD.
The world of BRIAN WOOD’S brand-new monthly series, NORTHLANDERS.
Following the red-hot success of last year’s most critically-acclaimed
books DMZ, NORTHLANDERS is a fresh take on Vikings.
NORTHLANDERS tells the epic tale of SVEN, an exiled
Viking prince who’s been living the decadent, high life in Constantinople
– the 11th century’s answer to Las Vegas – but now
must return to the desolate lands of his birth in the frigid islands
of the North Sea to reclaim his vast inheritance. Intending only to
take his money and run, he finds more than he bargained for as his
former family and friends are enslaved at the hands of Gorm, his ruthless
uncle. What follows is a bloody quest to not only free his people,
but also a young man’s struggle to discover where he belongs
in a rapidly changing world…and what awful sacrifices it will
take to make a Prince into a King.
NORTHLANDERS has all the cool, modern sensibilities
audience have come to expect from BRIAN WOOD (DMZ, DEMO, SUPERMARKET)
mixed with the bloody action of 300 and Gladiator. Joining Wood on
this epic journey is extraordinary new-comer artist Davide Gianfelice.
Covers by Y THE LAST MAN cover artist, Massimo Carnevale.
NORTHLANDERS #2 solicited
After being left for dead by his corrupt
uncle Gorm, Sven retreats to the farmhouse he was raised in and plots
his next move. Now, with a small army out for his head, a strange
and deadly half-wild girl living in the cliffs might be the lifesaver
Sven needs — if she doesn't kill him herself!
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NORTHLANDERS #3 solicited
Sven's one-man guerrilla campaign to unseat his
corrupt Uncle Gorm kicks off, with Sven exploiting Gorm’s superstitions
and reverence for the “old gods.” Meanwhile, the Hunter's
Daughter and Sven grow closer, but not as close as the enemy slave
girl sharing Sven's bed nightly.
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Chris
Arrant at Newsarama has a first-look interview with artwork
preview.
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