FCBD 2023 Sacrificers #1

“Hey Anthony! Did you read (insert new release here)?”


“Yeah! It was cool!”


“Nice! What’s it about?”


“I…I honestly don’t even know”


It’s a thing that happens sometimes.


World building from scratch is a difficult task, especially when you’re trying to
squeeze it into a FCBD teaser issue with 19 pages of story. As a fan of anything
written by Rick Remender, I was excited to dive into his latest offering, The
Sacrificers. Depending on how you felt about some of his most recent books like
Scumbag or A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance, this is absolutely nothing like either
of those!


Artist Max Fiumara (Abe Sapien/BPRD, Lucifer, etc.) DOES deliver some very striking pages so, if nothing else, it is a treat to look at. You have your standard cast of characters: the blue birdlike peasants, the assumedly evil monarch who’s…made
out of fire…that apparently has the ability to summon flaming salamanders and of
course, your run-of-the-mill Baphomet-type slave owner and a monster seemingly
made out of raw hamburger as his right-hand man! I don’t know, it’s weird and
depressing and DIFFERENT which is all I really ask of my Rick Remender comics
these days so I’ll be sticking with it when the first issue drops later this year.