Babs: The Black Road South (2025)

BABS is sharp, subversive, hilarious, and absolutely one of the best comics of 2024,” says CBR—and now the hit Ennis/Burrows sword-and-sorcery satire returns! A day of over-the-top carnage in a gladiator arena leads Babs and her partner-in-barbarism Izzy directly into a strange, unfamiliar, bizarre situation: they actually have money! That’s good, right? Wrong—because it’s about to lead them down a dark, horrific road to the devastated wasteland of Mordynn.

The sword-and-sorcery comedy by Ennis and Burrows (Crossed, Get Fury) continues! Seeking to recover a large sum of treasure, swordswoman Babs and her friend Izzy ride a depressed hired dragon along the Black Road South to Mordynn—a hazardous wasteland from which no one has ever returned. Except Babs, once. But she doesn't like to talk about it!

On their quest down the demon-cursed Black Road South, Babs and Izzy face murderous creatures, a murderous hobbit who’s into bondage, and a couple of particularly murderous, impossible-not-to-mock examples of cosmetic surgery attached to a narcissistic swordswoman! Is all of this stress worth the treasure that might await at road’s end? Of course. It’s treasure!

More sword-and-sorcery mayhem from the co-creator of The Boys! Babs, Izzy, and Culpepper are cast away on the rapids of a body of liquid so disgusting we don’t even want to tell you what it is until we already have your money. Plus, the raft they’re riding might not be completely dead, in quite a gross way.

Ennis and Burrows take their sword-and-sorcery heroine even further down the Black Road! What if the Triple Orb of Mordynn—a token of unimaginable evil, of inconceivable power—were in Babs’ hands? What if wanted to sell it? And what if the buyer were dangerous? What then, hmm?

Monumental conclusion! Inside a live volcano—ducking flame, steel, and the spraying filth of battle—Babs at last comes face-to-face with an infinitely powerful artifact, an undead swordswoman, and one distressingly kinky hobbit! “One of the most gloriously unhinged fantasy comics of the last several years.”—AIPT