Barbarian. Assassin. Witch. Red Sonja meets Dungeons & Dragons in Queen of Swords: A Barbaric Tale, where the triple threat of women's fury rises - bursting from the pages of the smash, BARBARIC (one of Entertainment Weekly's "Best Comics of 2021!")! Magic and mayhem, humor and trouble,
Fire burns as blood flows and bubbles ... Spinning out of the pages of BARBARIC comes an all-new, rip-roaring fantasy adventure, filled with mayhem, humor, and a bloodthirsty weapon that just won't stop talking! Serra is a witch with a checkered past; Ka is an assassin with an agenda all her own, and Deadheart is a barbarian who wants to bash everyone in her path. They'll have to unite their unique skills to track down a powerful foe who's tied their lives together. Get ready to meet your new favorite instrument of death--the evil Ga'Bar, whose spirit is now trapped in Deadheart's sword! Discover the origin of the dark magic that turned Soren into the tattooed witch she is today, in this totally new story, the perfect place to step into the world of BARBARIC for the first time! Hell's got nothin' on these badass Barbaric belles... Collects the entire, standalone three-issue series! PRAISE FOR BARBARIC: 'One of the "10 Best Comics of 2021..." Barbaric took only three issues to establish itself as a first-rate comic.' - Entertainment Weekly 'One of the "Best Comics of 2021..." It's a funny, gory, weird comic with stunning art in muted colors.' - Thrillist 'One of the "Best Comic Books and Graphic Novels of 2021..." the "excellent...violent, expletive-filled fantasy epic Barbaric never holds back... It's bloody spectacular."' - Screen Rant "... fantastic!" - Alex Segura (Award-winning and bestselling author of Secret Identity) "QUEEN OF SWORDS expands the already-epic world of BARBARIC in the best of ways, pushing the Robert E. Howard-ness full throttle and giving a female ensemble cast the best attributes of your favorite, most lived-in Dungeons & Dragons tabletop characters who also thrive with an emotional richness and complexity found only in the most vanguard echelons of fantasy. This book has grit, brute force, subversive themes and irreverent fun, nimbly trading off the hack-and-slash of a claymore when it comes to the action with the searing bite of a cutlass when dealing with deeper drama."
-- Christopher Cantwell (writer/co-creator: The Blue Flame (Vault Comics), Co-Creator / Showrunner of HALT AND CATCH FIRE. TV: co-executive producer: Victor LaValle's THE