PREVIEW / TRAILER: AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF THE GODS #1

Oni Press Debuts Epic Trailer & Interior Pages for Murewa Ayodele & Dotun Akande’s Afro-Fantasy Odyssey

Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comic books and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to unveil a fully animated and ferocious video trailer alongside the first colored interior preview for AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1 (of 3) – the MUST-READ, FIRST ISSUE for the bi-monthly, prestige format epic colliding dark fantasy and sword-swinging barbarian combat against ancient African myth and lore from emerging talents Murewa Ayodele (I Am Iron Man) and Dotun Akande (Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood)!

In an age thought forgotten . . . when man, monster, and the divine all strode the Earth . . . a lone warrior emerges to test the immortality of the cruel gods who would deal destruction with impunity . . . He is a one-man reckoning that stands in defiance of his divine masters with a sword in hand and a thirst for godblood. His name: AKOGUN THE BRUTALIZER!

In the tradition of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Thor,, superstars-in-the-making Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande—the creative duo behind I Am Iron Man and Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood—usher in a new epoch of African dark fantasy on the ancient continent of Alkebulan with a mythic cycle of cosmic destiny and unrelenting warfare colliding man against god. . . and blade against blade!

Told across three powerfully oversized bi-monthly chapters, steady your mind and spirit for a glorious new comics milestone revealing the fabled origin and battle-tested fury of . . . Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods!

AKOGUN BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1 (of 3)
Written by MUREWA AYODELE
Art by DOTUN AKANDE
Cover A by DOTUN AKANDE
Cover B by RAMON VILLALOBOS
Cover C by GREY WILLIAMSON
Full Art Variant (1:20) by RAMON VILLALOBOS
Variant Cover (1:30) by DAVID MACK
IOD: 2/29/24 / FOC: 3/11/24
ON SALE APRIL 3, 2024 | $5.99 | 40pgs | FC | MATURE READERS

Featuring covers by Dotun Akande (I Am Iron Man), Ramon Villalobos (Nighthawk, America), Grey Williamson (X-O Manowar), and Eisner Award winner David Mack (Daredevil), the first double-sized chapter of the year’s most monumental fantasy epic reaps revenge and fury on April 3rd in AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1!

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