Vault Comics have announced that Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden’s BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 will be the latest offering in their innovative Free-to-Retailers program this April.

Back in 2023, Vault launched their new program with Christopher Yost and Val Rodrigues’ UNNATURAL ORDER #1 and Zack Kaplan and Fabiana Mascolo’s BEYOND REAL #1.  Collectively, the two issues received over a quarter of a million copies ordered!

BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 is being marketed as “a true jumping on point for new readers, requiring no previous knowledge of the series in order to read”, and sees Moreci and Gooden continuing the saga of Owen, a bloodthirsty barbarian and his drunk axe as they roam an untamed, mythic realm battling supernatural cultists, hungry giants, creatures of the night, and more in their quest to somehow, amidst all this chaos, do some good.

The standard cover of BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 will be offered to retailers in free bundles of 25 copies. The issue will retain its $4.99 SRP, and retailers will be free to sell, discount, or freely distribute copies to their customers as they see fit.

Here’s the official synopsis:

A new era of Barbaric begins!

Worried Axe is going to find out you fell behind on a few issues? Scared to admit that despite all your friends raving about Barbaric for years, you still haven’t joined in on the fun? Rejoice! For Barbaric: Born in Blood begins the next season of Owen, Axe, and Soren’s tale. Yes, that’s right! We did it…the thing everyone says they’re doing, even when they’re lying through their teeth: a genuinely good jumping on point. How, you ask? Well, it all starts with a compelling new bad guy.

Meet Orrick, the tortured barbarian now turned master torturer, who will take us deep into Owen’s past, revealing secrets that should have stayed buried…like Axe in a chest cavity slurping up that sweet, delicious blood. Will the cursed-to-do-good barbarian finally do some actual good? Probably not! But some much worse guys will almost certainly lose their heads. Yummy!

BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 will hit store shelves and digital platforms on April 10th, 2024. 

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