REVIEW: Sword Daughter #6
- The Forty Swords catch up to Dag and Elsbeth, and a battle is fought on two fronts: the father fights for his daughter’s future, and an old man’s freedom is paid for in blood.
- Writer: Brian Wood, Artist: Mack Chater, Color Artist: Jose Villarrubia, Letters: Blambot’s Nate Piekos.
Brian Wood and Mack Chater are back this week with Sword Daughter #6, a series during Iceland“s Viking Age, this story is about a young girl (Elsbeth) and her father (Dag) who survive an attack from a band of killers called the Forty Swords. In the previous iss of Sword Daughter #5, The 40 Swords raided their village and killed everyone, survivor Elsbeth looked after her father, Dag, who fell into a decade-long sleep. After awakening, Dag and his daughter fled to the mountains, where Elsbeth began learning to wield a sword so that one day, she could take revenge on the 40 Swords.
Sword Daughter #6 flashes between the past and the present, but the focal point is an incident , after the 40 Swords hunt them down in the mountains. We are given more insight some of the most haunting fears of being a father. Did I do enough to prepare my children for the world? ; Will my child suffer for the failings of my life? ; and how will my children remember me? as a provider and protector willing to sacrifice everything for my children?
Nevertheless, The story is raw and realistic and it offers a historical fiction like no other. Maybe its because the narrative never strays from the relationship between the father and daughter. Mack Charter’s , manga inspired art style continues, as the western influence is present in the way the environment is drawn.  Tart definitely grabs your attention when you snap this book open.
Why should it be adapted? It“s just a brilliant idea that“s perfected suited to long-form serialised storytelling on television. A number of TV shows already have ideas similar to Sword Daughter, but Brian Wood’s creation actually deserves to be brought to the screen before too many other films and TV shows pick at its bones.
Sword Daughter #6 comes with two covers; Cover A Regular Ben Oliver Cover; and  Cover B Variant Mack Chater Cover.
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(W) Brian Wood (A) Mack Chater
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