Toss your old copies aside and dust off that bookshelf, folks, because the complete saga of the enigmatic entity known as Shakara is soon to be compiled into a single, bloody brilliant volume. It’s something to drool over in anticipation. Robbie Morrison and Henry Flint’s entire Shakara series, courtesy of Rebellion publishing, is scheduled for release on March 12, 2025. The 320-page turner-of-a trade paperback will set you back £29.99 but promises to be worth every penny and can be pre-ordered right now on the 2000 AD webshop.

Serving Cold Vengeance to the Universe

Launching in 2000 AD’s December 2021 released Prog 2002 Christmas Special, Shakara came, saw, and threw a personal and cataclysmic tantrum across a war-torn galaxy. Picture a mysterious entity seething, snarling, slashing, and nothing short of massacring its way to vengeance for the extermination of its race. The series ran for five cycles, dimming its dark star in 2011 with Shakara: Avenger. Though previously assembled into two volumes, Shakara: The Avenger and Shakara: The Destroyer in 2013, Rebellion’s forthcoming collection promises a consolidation that’s easier on the nerves, minus the agonizing intermission.

Stellar Sagas and Artistic Ascendancy

Shakara was a radiant beacon in 2000 AD’s publication list during the dawn of the new millennium, buzzing and humming with the electrifying visuals of British artist Henry Flint as he ascended into a supernova of talent. Mr. Flint later added the creation of other fan-favorite series for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, including the savagely hilarious Zombo with Al Ewing and the mind-warping Proteus Vex with Michael Carroll, to his cosmic resume of creations.

A Career Pivot for Robbie Morrison

If the Scots had a word for a permanent fixture, we’re pretty sure it would be Robbie Morrison. An enduring presence in 2000 AD from the ’90s to the 2010s, Morrison concocted the Nikolai Dante series with Simon Fraser, managing to keep fans slavering for more from 1997 to 2012. In the US, he might be better recognized for picking up the narrative strings of the second volume of The Authority from Mark Millar in 2003. The writer has since drifted towards new galaxies and creative pursuits, donning the hat of an award-winning crime novelist. His debut crime novel, Edge of the Grave, a chilling narrative set in 1930s Glasgow, nabbed the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger 2022.

A Killing Machine’s Confluence

Rebellion describes Shakara as one of the most unpredictable, visceral, and impressive stories from the pantheon of 2000 AD, now coming to a single, collected volume. As galaxies reel under the onslaught of races locked in genocidal discord, enter Shakara — a figure birthed from the ashes of its annihilated race, radiating revenge and fear through every corner of the cosmos. This living embodiment of a dead species has one inflexible agenda: emanate destruction and retribution on those responsible for decimating their own. Shakara promises to be a visually stupefying and gut-wrenchingly epic tale – and we’re predicting not a single comic book fan would want to miss it.