BRZRKR: Light Draws Breath further digs into the early years of the immortal warrior B. Today, The Beat can reveal an exclusive preview of the one-shot.
Created by Keanu Reeves, co-written by China Miéville (who wrote the 2024 spin-off prose novel The Book of Elswhere) and Season Butler, illustrated by Alessio Avalone, colored by Sara Cuomo, and lettered by Pat Brosseau, BRZRKR: Light Draws Breath is a new prequel set in the universe created by Reeves and Matt Kindt in 2021.
Here’s the synopsis:
The latest and greatest from Keanu Reeves’s BRZRKR universe is now here!
It’s the Bronze Age and B. is dead. Again. Not for long, of course. But two rogue scientists have siphoned off a tiny portion of his protoplasm before he can fully reconfigure, and something else has been born anew…
Something that must learn what it is, what its powers are, how to be in the world—and how to fight those who would try to control it.
Drawing on real historical figures and events, and the secret histories of alchemy, award-winning writer Season Butler, NYT-bestselling author China Miéville, and seasoned artist Alessio Avallone craft a story that’s at once grim and funny, poignant and touching, about what it is to be human in this all-new, oversized one-shot.
Check out an exclusive preview below.
“Our central figure is observed, used, interpreted – and yet there’s still something irreducible about them,” said co-writer Season Butler. “That tension between being shaped and asserting a self felt emotionally rich to explore.”
“For me, our main character faces even more of a troublesome question of identity than B. usually faces, which means issues of agency and choice,” said Miéville. “One of the enjoyable things about writing, comics, art, etcetera, is that you can raise these issues
and ruminate on them, without pretending to ‘solve’ them.”
BRZRKR: Light Draws Breath #1 will be available digitally and at your local comic shop on May 20. Pre-orders are available now, with FOC on Monday, April 6.
