Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso are teaming up for a new DSTLRY series The Blood Brothers Mother. Set for release in May 2024, it’s a brutal frontier story. The Western saga offers honed characters, dialogue, and textured illustration to a genre steeped in American iconography and bloodshed. Also announced today from DSTLRY: White Boat and Spectregraph.
“Eduardo and I have been sitting on this story for years. When we first discussed it, neither of us thought we were ready to tell it. Our perspective, it wasn’t right,” co-creator and writer Brian Azzarello explains. “Westerns are where America expresses its myths, but the truth of America is violence— something we first explored in 100 Bullets. The frontier was a brutally harsh environment, but fertile; it fed the extremes of human morality. The desert is a hell of a sandbox to set stories in.”
So what’s The Blood Brothers Mother about?
THE BLOOD BROTHERS MOTHER follows three children—their step-father gunned down by their recently paroled father; their mother kidnapped; their family torn asunder. The kids set off to rescue her across the wild Texas frontier. Throughout their journey, they’ll face the harsh elements of an unforgiving landscape, filled with wild animals—and men—hungry for blood. Merciless bounty hunters and more pursue the children as they embark on a relentless quest to rescue their family. One of the children also hides a secret bound to complicate their passage.
Along the way, they’ll learn the real cost of revenge—not just in lives, but in how it stains a soul. While revenge may be satisfying in the moment, it leaves a yearning behind that lasts a lifetime. And once you taste it, nothing else is ever so sweet.
David Steinberger and Chip Mosher of DSTLRY commented, “We are thrilled to bring the legendary team of Azzarello and Risso back together for this epic Western. Their vision for this series aligns perfectly with DSTLRY’s ethos of unrestrained storytelling.”
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