First Knife (Protector)

From SIMON ROY (Prophet), Sideways Award-winning author DANIEL M. BENSEN (Junction), ARTYOM TRAKHANOV (UNDERTOW), JASON WORDIE (GOD COUNTRY), and HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU (Red Sonja) comes a sci-fi adventure equal parts Conan the Barbarian, Mad Max, and The Expanse.

In the hot ruins of far-future North America, a slave stumbles across an ancient and bloody power and a conqueror bargains with godlike beings. The remaining humans of Earth find themselves standing between the forces that once nearly destroyed it.

Collects FIRST KNIFE #1-5.

Wayward son of Vancouver Island, Simon Roy a comics artist, illustrator, and writer best known for working on books like PROPHET, Tiger Lung, HABITAT, THE FIELD, and JAN'S ATOMIC HEART.

He has worked with publishers and clients like Dark Horse, Image Comics, Dreamworks, and more!

Colorist Jason Wordie is credited on hundreds of comics in a career that’s spanned over a decade working with such respected young celebrated artists as Wes Craig and Geoff Shaw or on such beloved properties as Planet of the Apes or Harley Quinn.

Hassan is a British/Algerian comics letterer, and has worked on titles like Vault Comics’ The Blue Flame, Black Stars Above, The RUSH, Engineward, No One’s Rose, and TEST, as well as X-O Manowar, First Knife, and Undone By Blood. He's also the editor of the Eisner-winning PanelxPanel, and voice behind Strip Panel Naked.

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