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Barbaric (collected editions) #3
Barbaric Vol. 3: Hell to Pay
As one of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 Best Comics of 2021,” Barbaric – featuring Owen the Barbarian and his bloodthirsty companion Axe – is back: bigger, bloodier, and badder than ever with Hell to Pay!
Hailed as one of the best comics of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Thrillist, Screen Rant, and more, bestselling BARBARIC is back, big, bloody and headed straight to Hell in Volume 3: Hell to Pay!
While Owen tames a dragon with an old friend, Soren and Steel cross paths with someone else from our cursed barbarian’s past…who isn’t looking nearly as friendly. Hell hath no fury like a woman stabbed through the heart by an ugly f***ing orc.
Oh, wait! Who’s carrying Axe?
BARBARIC Volume 3: Hell to Pay includes the oversized one-shot Wrong Kind of Righteous co-written by fantasy powerhouse writer Nicholas Eames (Kings of the Wyld)!!
For fans of BRZRKR!, The Witcher, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Heathen, Rat Queens, Kings of the Wyld, and Dungeons and Dragons!
Collects the third three-issue miniseries (Hell to Pay) and the special one-shot standalone (Wrong Kind of Righteous)!
It’s just … BARBARIC!
From writer Michael Moreci (Wasted Space, The Plot, and Revealer) and artist Nathan C. Gooden (Brandon Sanderson's Dark One, The RUSH, Vampire: The Masquerade)!
‘One of the “10 Best Comics of 2021…” Barbaric took only three issues to establish itself as a first-rate comic.’ - Entertainment Weekly
‘One of the “Best Comics of 2021…” It's a funny, gory, weird comic with stunning art in muted colors.’ – Thrillist
‘One of the “Best Comic Books and Graphic Novels of 2021…” the “excellent…violent, expletive-filled fantasy epic Barbaric never holds back… It’s bloody spectacular.”’ - Screen Rant
"... fantastic!" - Alex Segura (Award-winning and bestselling author of Secret Identity)
Hailed as one of the best comics of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Thrillist, Screen Rant, and more, bestselling BARBARIC is back, big, bloody and headed straight to Hell in Volume 3: Hell to Pay!
While Owen tames a dragon with an old friend, Soren and Steel cross paths with someone else from our cursed barbarian’s past…who isn’t looking nearly as friendly. Hell hath no fury like a woman stabbed through the heart by an ugly f***ing orc.
Oh, wait! Who’s carrying Axe?
BARBARIC Volume 3: Hell to Pay includes the oversized one-shot Wrong Kind of Righteous co-written by fantasy powerhouse writer Nicholas Eames (Kings of the Wyld)!!
For fans of BRZRKR!, The Witcher, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Heathen, Rat Queens, Kings of the Wyld, and Dungeons and Dragons!
Collects the third three-issue miniseries (Hell to Pay) and the special one-shot standalone (Wrong Kind of Righteous)!
It’s just … BARBARIC!
From writer Michael Moreci (Wasted Space, The Plot, and Revealer) and artist Nathan C. Gooden (Brandon Sanderson's Dark One, The RUSH, Vampire: The Masquerade)!
‘One of the “10 Best Comics of 2021…” Barbaric took only three issues to establish itself as a first-rate comic.’ - Entertainment Weekly
‘One of the “Best Comics of 2021…” It's a funny, gory, weird comic with stunning art in muted colors.’ – Thrillist
‘One of the “Best Comic Books and Graphic Novels of 2021…” the “excellent…violent, expletive-filled fantasy epic Barbaric never holds back… It’s bloody spectacular.”’ - Screen Rant
"... fantastic!" - Alex Segura (Award-winning and bestselling author of Secret Identity)
128 pages, Paperback
Published January 2, 2024
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About the author
Michael Moreci
426 books212 followersMichael Moreci is a bestselling comics author and novelist. His original works include the space adventure novels Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem, as well as the comic series Wasted Space, The Plot, Hexagon, Curse, Archangel 8, and more. The Plot appeared on numerous best of 2019 lists, and Wasted Space has been hailed as one of the best comics of the past decade. Moreci's comic trilogy Roche Limit was called one of the best sci-fi comics of all-time by Paste Magazine, and Black Star Renegades was an Audie Award finalist for best sci-fi of 2018.
Moreci has also written for Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and the DC universe--including the YA graphic novel The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Story. He's also adapted Eoin Colfer's bestselling Artemis Fowl series into graphic novels.
He lives outside Chicago with his family.
Moreci has also written for Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and the DC universe--including the YA graphic novel The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Story. He's also adapted Eoin Colfer's bestselling Artemis Fowl series into graphic novels.
He lives outside Chicago with his family.
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November 15, 2025
A very fun issue, and a very fun extra special from the author Eames.
February 7, 2024
Another great volume. This series always has me smiling.
This time our fearless barbarian is stuck in hell. Poor dude, right? WRONG. He gets to fight and live his best life down there with an old friend. While up top we have his friends trying to find a way to bring him back. The change in pace and character structure help keep this one really fresh, with some laugh out loud moments, and a nice way to build up the spin off. Also the one shot at the end? Hilarious. Overall if you like really fun/funny dialogue and brutal fight scenes, this is a series I can not recommend enough!
A 4.5 out of 5.
This time our fearless barbarian is stuck in hell. Poor dude, right? WRONG. He gets to fight and live his best life down there with an old friend. While up top we have his friends trying to find a way to bring him back. The change in pace and character structure help keep this one really fresh, with some laugh out loud moments, and a nice way to build up the spin off. Also the one shot at the end? Hilarious. Overall if you like really fun/funny dialogue and brutal fight scenes, this is a series I can not recommend enough!
A 4.5 out of 5.
March 23, 2024
Great Sword-and-Sorcery comic by Nicholas Eames
If a graphic novel's illustrations and writing don't jive, the whole thing falls flat. Barbaric is the example of how to do te job right.
It's fun, bloody action, and sick humor, just as Babaric set out to be.
For anyone who has read Kyngs of the Wild and Bloody Rose, you already know that a comic written by Nicholas Eames is a metal-head's party!
If a graphic novel's illustrations and writing don't jive, the whole thing falls flat. Barbaric is the example of how to do te job right.
It's fun, bloody action, and sick humor, just as Babaric set out to be.
For anyone who has read Kyngs of the Wild and Bloody Rose, you already know that a comic written by Nicholas Eames is a metal-head's party!
January 15, 2024
I read the Volume 3 of Barbaric this past week and I have to tell you the story with Axe just keeps me laughing. I love Axe as a character. He is hilarious and the character that I believe keeps the story going strong. I loved this one as this was a foray into the many realms of hell and how Owen got there from the last book. Someone else is also welding Axe so that's something new too, which intrigued me and made me want to continue the series.
I really enjoyed this book and I love this series!!
I really enjoyed this book and I love this series!!
April 3, 2025
v3 gives us a lot of narrative tapdancing--characters going to and from hell, party members swapping in and out--but it ends in exactly the same place that v2 did: Owen et al setting out to kill Gladius once and for all. Axe tripping balls whenever it drinks to much blood continues to make me snicker but otherwise I feel like the series has run its course. I might hit v4 since I have it on hand. Or I might not.
The one-shot at the end of the volume is glorious: Owen meets a fascist paladin and gives him what he deserves. (I don't like paladins.) Better yet, the paladin wields a sentient flail that is horrified by violence and loathes the taste of blood. Great stuff.
The one-shot at the end of the volume is glorious: Owen meets a fascist paladin and gives him what he deserves. (I don't like paladins.) Better yet, the paladin wields a sentient flail that is horrified by violence and loathes the taste of blood. Great stuff.
May 3, 2024
There's two main storylines, Soren and Steel trying to rescue Owen and Owen dealing with being in Hell. Hell, despite it's volcanic appearances, feels closer to a mix of Hades's Underworld crossed with the Norse Valhalla. It's entertaining enough, though the ending felt rather abrupt. It also includes an sidestory with Owen encountering a holy knight bearing a talking weapon and a debate on judgement and morality via ample bloodshed.
Props for having a M/F pair going to the literal ends of the earth without romance and/or being love interests and almost no romance in general.
Props for having a M/F pair going to the literal ends of the earth without romance and/or being love interests and almost no romance in general.
March 13, 2025
The third volume of Barbaric continues to be badass. Owen is trapped in Hell with an old friend while his friends try and figure out how to get him out. I love that Owen thinks that Hell is just a good time. This series is so much fun and super funny. The Hell to Pay one shot with Nicholas Eames is dementedly hilarious.
November 29, 2023
La dosis de gore y humor negro que necesitaba...
April 28, 2024
90
Better than volume 2. Nice to see Gooden’s art throughout. There is a scene where a camel gets punched, and I was tearing up from laughing so hard. I dig this series!
Better than volume 2. Nice to see Gooden’s art throughout. There is a scene where a camel gets punched, and I was tearing up from laughing so hard. I dig this series!
June 16, 2024
A quest to reunite a barbarian with his axe. Great sacrifice. Buildnig a new party for further adventures. Good action.
July 7, 2024
Solid sword & sorcery with plenty of "blood, guts and veins in m' teeth" (Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie, 1967).
Very well done.
Definitely nor for kids or the weak-stomached.
Very well done.
Definitely nor for kids or the weak-stomached.
November 25, 2024
Fast paced, funny continuation of the story.
December 11, 2024
Not as good as the other two books but still a lot of fun, I'm just curious where this story is going next.
March 1, 2025
These are just fun reads, I really shouldn’t be this entertained… i mean its kinda garbage but it has these small one liners in the mix of sarcasm and chaos that are absolutely gold!!
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