AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF THE GODS #1 – Oni Press Debuts Epic Trailer & Interior Pages for Murewa Ayodele & Dotun Akande’s Afro-Fantasy Odyssey — ONI PRESS

Enter a Primal Vision of Mythic Fury in the Aeon Before Own – In Stores April 3rd!

PORTLAND, OR (February 27th, 2024) – Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comic books and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to unveil a fully animated and ferocious video trailer alongside the first colored interior preview for AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1 (of 3) – the MUST-READ, FIRST ISSUE for the bi-monthly, prestige format epic colliding dark fantasy and sword-swinging barbarian combat against ancient African myth and lore from emerging talents Murewa Ayodele (I Am Iron Man) and Dotun Akande (Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood)!

In an age thought forgotten . . . when man, monster, and the divine all strode the Earth . . . a lone warrior emerges to test the immortality of the cruel gods who would deal destruction with impunity . . . He is a one-man reckoning that stands in defiance of his divine masters with a sword in hand and a thirst for godblood. His name: AKOGUN THE BRUTALIZER!

In the tradition of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Thor,, superstars-in-the-making Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande—the creative duo behind I Am Iron Man and Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood—usher in a new epoch of African dark fantasy on the ancient continent of Alkebulan with a mythic cycle of cosmic destiny and unrelenting warfare colliding man against god. . . and blade against blade!

Told across three powerfully oversized bi-monthly chapters, steady your mind and spirit for a glorious new comics milestone revealing the fabled origin and battle-tested fury of . . . Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods!

Featuring covers by Dotun Akande (I Am Iron Man), Ramon Villalobos (Nighthawk, America), Grey Williamson (X-O Manowar), and Eisner Award winner David Mack (Daredevil), the first double-sized chapter of the year’s most monumental fantasy epic reaps revenge and fury on April 3rd in AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1!

AKOGUN BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1 (of 3)

Written by MUREWA AYODELE

Art by DOTUN AKANDE

Cover A by DOTUN AKANDE

Cover B by RAMON VILLALOBOS

Cover C by GREY WILLIAMSON

Full Art Variant (1:20) by RAMON VILLALOBOS

Variant Cover (1:30) by DAVID MACK

IOD: 2/29/24

FOC: 3/11/24

ON SALE APRIL 3, 2024 | $5.99 | 40pgs | FC | MATURE READERS

About the Creators

Recipient of the (Lagos Comic Con 2023) FIST AWARD for WRITER OF THE DECADE, Murewa Ayodele is the writer of the Nommo-nominated comic book series, NEW MEN, the critically acclaimed webcomic series, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A GOD, and several Marvel comics like I AM IRON MAN, MOON KNIGHT: BLACK WHITE & BLOOD, and AVENGERS UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC. He is also the co-founder of Collectible Comics NG, a Nigerian comic book studio founded with artist Dotun Akande that was nominated in the COMIC STUDIO OF THE YEAR category at the 2018 FIST AWARDS. Murewa has worked as a professional comic book writer for almost a decade with over 10 comic book titles under his belt.

Dotun Akande is an award-winning comic book cover artist and graphics designer who has worked with some of the biggest brands in Nigeria. He was the recipient of the (Lagos Comic Con 2018) FIST AWARD for BEST COVER ARTIST and has created comic covers for comic book series like I AM IRON MAN, VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT, BLACK PANTHER, MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR, and an upcoming X-MEN series.

He is also the artist behind the Nommo-nominated comic book series, NEW MEN, the critically acclaimed webcomic series, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A GOD, and several Marvel comics like I AM IRON MAN, MOON KNIGHT: BLACK WHITE & BLOOD, and AVENGERS UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC. Dotun has worked as a professional comic book storyteller for almost a decade with over 10 comic book titles under his belt.

About Oni Press

Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.

The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.