Empire of Blood

Empire of Blood #1-4

by Arjun Raj Gaind, Enrique Alcatena, Aditya Bidikar (Letterer)

Blood is Truth
Race is Identity
Obedience is Service
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Under the reign of the great Queen Elizabeth, the Empress of Blood, the English Empire is stronger than had ever been dreamed of. Aided by Aqua Vitae, the miracle potion, the British army has lain claim to Germany and Russia. By the end of the Great War, all of Europe is a part of the EMPIRE OF BLOOD.

In a forgotten corner of the Empire, somewhere in India, there is rebellion brewing. Pockets of resistance that claim that India belongs to the natives, and that the British Empire, based as it is on the blood and sweat of the Indian poor, has no right to rule anymore. And Tom Lawrence, a child of the English army, has begun to think the natives might be right.

This is the strange, horrifying story of a world gone wrong, a world where resistance is doomed to fail, but where it might just be more important than ever...
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Genres: Graphic Novels

118 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2015

Reviews

[Vikas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was another original graphic novel from the house of Graphic India and like I said before it is good to see the artists and companies trying to do something original for a change and with this movement, we would finally see the medium of Graphic Novel increasing as a storytelling device rather than being viewed as just comics for adults.

Now coming to the book, this is drawn beautifully in monochrome like Sephia but with red. The story of this may be from a storyline is some series like The Twilight Zone. This is a topsy turvy world where England was able to beat everything in the world war and is now ruling most of the world with blood. it has been often said that the British Empire bled India dry in here that is done literally as the Empire uses the blood for some nefarious purpose.

The story moves quickly enough what with 4 issues in the original run and it was fine just a slight new polish on the What If the model of storytelling, we have mostly seen the scenarios where Nazis win the war and here a losing England wins the war with a miracle potion called Aqua Vitae. What is the miracle potion nobody knows but the new World is terrible and racist than ever before? So naturally, our hero is a Britisher and has to fall in love with an Indian girl so yeah it's like a movie or a TV series but done good enough.

Nice graphic novel and like I said earlier it's nice to see something new tried. So do give the support to the writers and publishers and read the damn thing so that more effort can be put in the future titles, so read and read.

I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics as I can. I Love comics to bit, may comics never leave my side. I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.

[Ahmed · Rating 1 out of 5]

5 minutes in NOPE. NOPE. NOPE.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art is superb. This could have been an excellent Vertigo series, but it unfortunately was too short lived!

[Zucchini Bear38 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice drawings but maybe too much violence and bad stuff for me

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Historieta de Gaind y Alcatena.