Brzrkr Bloodlines #1

Plot

Collects Brzrkr: Poetry of Madness (2023 Boom) and Brzrkr: Fallen Empire (2023 Boom). Cover by Travis Charest.

Renowned filmmaker and record-shattering comic creator Keanu Reeves is joined by writer/artist Steve Skroce (The Matrix, Post Americana), screenwriter and director Mattson Tomlin (A Vicious Circle, The Batman Part II), and artist Rebekah Isaacs (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Money Shot) for a pair of self-contained stories set within the 80,000 year history of BRZRKR!In Poetry of Madness, B. safeguards the advanced and ancient realm of Atlantis as its unstoppable protector. But a sickly monarch serves as a symbol for the rot inside and the cracks created by a secret cult might spell a monstrous end for the legendary city, one beyond even B.'s ability to save. In Fallen Empire, a former kingdom eradicated by the BRZRKR has a single living survivor. She and her people knew B. as the God King. In this tragic story of death and cataclysm, the survivor recounts a fable in which lost love, manipulation, and warring empires brought out the very worst of Unute...