As Novitiate Ghita’s first mission with her Order gets underway, what should be an easy mission turns into something much worse, as an unknown force deep within the subterranean city of the planet rears its ugly head! It’s no-holds-barred action, mystery, and daemons galore as the all-female fighting force lets bolters blaze and flamers scorch in this all-new saga!Ī Warhammer 40,000 aficionado herself, here’s what Torunn Grønbekk had to say about working on WARHAMMER 40,000: SISTERS OF BATTLE: They’ve been featured in an extended novella published over the course of a year in White Dwarf in one of the last books published for 8th edition in a new, fabulous line of all-plastic miniatures and in the CGI trailer that helped to kick off the 9th edition of the tabletop game - a trailer that served to elevate the faction, a trailer that placed them for the first time in recent memory shoulder to shoulder with the mighty Space Marines, locked in battle against the xenos scum of the week.A squad of Adepta Sororitas, led by Canoness Veridyan arrive on planet Siscia to retrieve a lost Inquisitorial acolyte and put down a heretical uprising.
It could be just the thing to bring more women into the hobby, and I imagine that’s why the Sisters have featured so prominently over the last two years. Here is a group of highly capable women fighting and dying on the front lines, in the very most dangerous warzones in the galaxy. It’s just fine.īut the Sisters of Battle feel more important for the 40K franchise than ever before. Even the somewhat tawdry alternate cover featuring art borrowed from John Blanche’s second edition sourcebook, with the Canonness proudly presenting her glistening, four-inch, ceramite and adamantine heels to the camera … it’s fine. They’re well trained, pious, very attractive women who are just following orders and kicking ass and dying beautifully in every panel. I expected more of that to shine through here with Sisters of Battle. Nowhere is that more clear than in the canonical representation of the Sisters of Battle - sexy, gritty women with sleek armor and enormous military assets. Traditionally its franchises have been the exclusive playground of well-heeled white men, and GW’s pricey products as well as their art assets have all echoed that messaging. Games Workshop has been going through a very slow and very public transformation lately. It’s just that it’s a little bit disappointing to read a story that, so far at least, feels very safe. There’s not really a main character yet either, but that will hopefully change in issue #2 now that the cast has been winnowed down a bit by the aforementioned purple beastie.
It’s very safe, very rote, almost liturgical in its own bizarre way. The comic is designed to be an introduction into the world of 40K, and by and large it does a very fine job. Is there any required reading?Ībsolutely not. They tend to get the job done, and the art in this issue really. They dress in black armor with red accents and, like all Sisters of Battle, have a preference for flamethrowers. Recently arrived on the scene is Canoness Veridyan - a beloved character from the ancient Warhammer lore circa 1997 - and a squad of troops from the Order of our Martyred Lady. Pretty standard stuff for the 41st millennia. That means blood, and gore, and death, and little old ladies that spontaneously morph into giant purple tentacle things and eat people’s heads off. This is a book about heresy on the planet Siscia, which has been overtaken by the agents of Chaos. Image: Torunn Grønbekk and Edgar Salazar/Marvel Comics What is Warhammer 40,000 Sisters of Battle about? He recently knocked the Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar, the first Marvel/Games Workshop joint project, right out of the park. Games Workshop has a hand on the ball, of course, as does Kieron Gillen, whose “thank you” gets the same sized font as the other folks listed here inside the coverleaf. Artist Edgar Salazar ( League of Legends: Zed, Rise of the Black Panther, Venom) is on the art, while Arif Prianto takes care of the color. Torunn Grønbekk, best known for her work on The Mighty Valkyries, is handling the writing. Who is making Warhammer 40,000 Sisters of Battle? It’s called Warhammer 40,000: Sisters of Battle, and it’s really not at all what I expected. But there are also nuns - very, very violent nuns - and this week those fightin’ nuns get their own comic book. Over the years they’ve become the poster boys for an assortment of millennia-long attempted counter-genocides. Despite the billions of mortal soldiers prosecuting that war, the camera more often than not lingers on the Space Marines. I’m not sure if you were aware, but in the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000’s far future there is only war.
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