Blood and Thunder (comics)

Infobox comic book title
title = Warhammer 40,000: Blood and Thunder


caption = Cover to "Blood and Thunder" #1
Art by Wraithdt
schedule = Monthly
limited = y
multigenre = y
SciFi = y
War = y
publisher = Boom! Studios
date = December 2007 - March 2008
issues = 5
writers = Dan Abnett
Ian Edginton
artists = Daniel Lapham
Letterer = Ed Dukeshire
colorists = Aeronik
editors = Joe Abraham
TPB = Blood and Thunder
ISBN = 1934506311
subcat = Boom! Studios
sort = PAGENAME

"Blood and Thunder" is a five-issue comic book limited series from Boom! Studios, written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton, set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe.

It follows the Ork WAAAGH of Warboss Gorgutz and various underlings, trying to avoid his ever raging wrath and kill as much as they possibly can.

Characters and Plot

Demaris Tertiary has been assaulted by WAAAGH Gorgutz, and the Ork Nobs Ardnock, Knutta and Skyva are under threat of being fed to Gorgutz' prize collection of squigs. Whoever is last into the fortress the Ork Horde is attacking is to be fed to the squigs. Colonel Izraell and his 96th Tallarn Desert Raiders desperately try to fight back the Ork WAAAGH at the garrison of the Senshu factory hive. Izraell's backup is defeated and his own armoured vehicle platoon is captured and used against the garrison. The garrison is quickly destroyed, and he falls down in the debris only to survive by falling into a sewage pipe. Ork Nob Skyva finds that he is the last to enter the breached garrison, much to his frustration, but finds Izraell and mistakes the sewage covered human for some kind of exotic squig. Hoping to bargin for his life, Skyva captures Izraell and takes him to Gorgutz, along with Knutta and Ardnock. As they walk, Izraell, in a cage, picks up a discarded Plasma Pistol from a pile of garbage and uses the pistol to kill Knutta and Ardnock. Skyva, however, survives and Gorgutz believes that Skyva killed Knutta and Ardnock in order to avoid being fed to Gorgutz' squigs. Impressed, Gorgutz spares Skyva and suggests him to keep Izraell as a lucky charm.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

* "Blood and Thunder" (5-issue limited series, December 2007-March 2008, tpb, 128 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1934506311)

ee also

*Warhammer 40,000 comics
*Damnation Crusade, a previous Warhammer 40k series, about the Black Templars Space Marines.
*Forge of War, Warhammer Fantasy comic by the same writing team.

References

*comicbookdb|type=title|id=16938|title="Blood and Thunder"

External links

* [http://boom-studios.com/taxonomy/term/222 "Blood and Thunder" at Boom! Studios]
* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12185 Preview of Issue #1] , Comic Book Resources, October 24, 2007
* [http://comicpants.com/?p=2305 Review of Issue #1] , Comic Pants, October 24th, 2007