Imbokodo, a new creator-owned series from Rhabo Rametsi, Thabiso Mabanna, and Katlego Motaung, is coming to comic shops in October 2024 from Dark Horse Comics.
“Imbokodo is a love letter to African history, at its heart, it is a detective story about the love of family and the brutality of war,” said writers Thabo Rametsi and Thabiso Mabana in a press release. “But the story and the world created represent so much more as it shows Africa as it truly is – bold, thriving, innovative and at the forefront of the world’s greatest stories. With the help of fellow South Africans and exciting South African comic book illustrator Katlego Motaung, aka DeadKatBarks, we look to honour the great warrior women of Africa – the likes of Nandi, Nzinga, Modjadji, Llinga, Amina, Nehanda and many other great warrior queens like the women who raised us. These books and films will pay homage to our majestic ancestry and immortalize African mythology and history as it should be.”
In the land of the pyramid sun, Ndawo, a single step for the Badimu (Gods) is a thousand Muntu(human) lifetimes. And in the war of the Badimu from the smallest cut shall flow rivers of Muntu blood… endless rivers of blood.
War breaks out among the Badimu, casting a darkness over Ndawo. A darkness, that would birth genocide and war among the Muntu. And now a thousand years later—Ndawo remains divided into several Empires. As the brutal war reaches bloody crescendo, numerous young girls mysteriously go missing from their villages in the empire of Mwenemutapa, leaving behind only a trail of carnage in their wake.
Queen Nyameka of Mwenemutapa commands the greatest warriors in all of Ndawo, the Imbokodo, to investigate the missing girls when a nameless woman whose sister has also gone missing fights to secure her place amongst the Imbokodo to find her.
Imbokodo #1 (of 4) arrives on October 16, 2024, with a cover price of $3.99.
