Oliver Arditi's review of BRZRKR, Volume 1

3/5: I'm reading BZRKR, or at least the three albums of its main storyline, so that I'm broadly in the picture when China Miéville's prose contribution to this property is released in July 2024. I'm a devotee of Miéville's fiction, and I'm excited to see what he does with this. However, on the basis of its first volume, the source material seems pretty unprepossessing. It's good, sure. It's a dark tale of ancient origins and modern ultraviolence, brilliantly drawn by Ron Garney, whose artwork is free, dynamic, and atmospheric, and always a model of narrative clarity. The story is founded on an e...