20 years after the last issue was published, a first look at🐲 the next issue of Joe Madureira's Battleꦍ Chasers series is here.

To say it's a lon🐲g time coming would🐷 be an understatement, but here we are. Take a look:

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Battle Chasers #10 preview

As Madureira has previously said, he has passedꩲ artistic duties on Battle Chasers to another artist - in this preview ♍it's Ludo Lullabi, a French artist who works with him at his video game company Airship Syndicate.

"Here's a peek at Battle Chasers #10 art by Ludo Lullabi!" Madureira writesℱ on .🍷 "Every page blows me away! It will be oversized with 32 full pages of story! [] backers will of course get theirs, and it'll be available in shops later this year. Thank you for the love!"

Inspired by his '90s-era love for games like Final Fantasꦐy 6, Suikoden, and Chronotrigger, Madureira's Battle Chasers is a sword & sorcery fantasy comic following a young girl named Gully in an attempt to find her missing father. In this quest, she is joined (like any D&D game or JRPG) by a party of warriors such as a swordsman (Garrison), a wizard (Knolan), a robot (Calibretto), and a wildcard mercenary (Red Monika). 

In the laꦿte '90s, a fantasy comic that wasn't in the vein of Conan the Barbarian was pretty rare, making Battle Chasers a unique comic on shelves - helped in no small part by the dynamic manga-inspired work of Madureira, fresh off a run on Marvel's X-Men.

Battle Chasers was originally published from 1998 to 2001 through Image Comics, and each issue was among the top 10 selling comic books in that month - beating out almost allꦰ t♔he franchise heavyweights from Marvel and DC. The tenth issue of Battle Chasers was announced and put up for order (before ultimately being canceled), but according to it was the 14th-highest-ordered comic book for the entire month with an estimated 60,860 orders.

Madureira returned to the franchise in 20🧔15, announcing a crowdfunded video game called Battle Chasers: Nightwar from his just-launched video game company. Their Kickstarter was successful, by the time the g🐻ame was finished it was picked up by all the major gaming platforms.

As part of that Kickstarter was the mention of resuming the Battle Chasers comic with Madureira writing and drawing the series, but he later said that he would need to enlist other artists to continue the se🌳ries "any time soon."

"Unfortunately, it’s proven difficult to work on them alongside my responsibilities at the studio," Madureira said in 𝐆2019. "Issues #10-12 will pick up exactly where the last issue left off, and focus on Garrison, his past, and his complicated relationship with the fugitive Red Monika."

A collection of all nine Battle Chasers issues is available from Image Comics as ; Madureira hasn't specifie൲d if these new issues will also be published by Image, or elsewhere.

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