Image Comics Announce New Splatter-Fest Historical Fantasy Series ‘Bear Pirate Viking Queen’

by Olly MacNamee

Writer Sean Lewis (King Spawn, Thumbs) and artist Jonathan Marks Barravecchia are to produce a new three-issue blood-splattered series, Bear Pirate Viking Queen, for Image Comics. And the titles says it all:

“Bears. Pirates. Vikings. And Queens — all battling for their claim to determine what the world will become. Bear Pirate Viking Queen is a gorgeous, high fantasy story about the blood spilled to make countries.”

Adding to the official synopsis Lewis says:

“I always wanted to make something that hit me like From Hell the first time I read it. Something with historical scope, something with a really uncompromised visual beauty, and something that felt BIG. Jonathan’s work is incredible. The story is one I am incredibly proud of. We are shooting for ‘canon’ with this one.”

Barravecchia added:

“Bear Pirate Viking Queen has been a true collaboration, and unlike any other project I’ve worked on in the past. It’s been fascinating to go back and forth with Sean, and truly impressive—even to me—that a meeting over drinks listing random ‘cool’ things to draw could turn into such an epic and poetic story. I’m so excited to share this book!”