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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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



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 come.


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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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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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