Damnation Crusade

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Warhammer 40,000: Damnation Crusade
Cover to Damnnation Crusade #1 Art by Lui Antonio
Publisher Boom! Studios Schedule Monthly Format Limited series Publication dates December 2006 to present Number of issues 6 Creative team Writer(s) Dan Abnett Ian Edginton Artist(s) Lui Antonio Colourist(s) JM Ringuet

Damnation Crusade is a 6-issue limited series comic book from Boom! Studios, written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton.

Set in the future of Warhammer 40,000, it is a vision of never-ending war. Its storyline follows several different Space Marines of the Black Templars chapter.

[edit] Characters

The series follows several characters in each issue. Dates and places are given in the form of crusade names and battlefields.

Sword Bretheran Gerhart, part of Marshal Korneliusz's Company, is followed fighting at the battle of Carrion Gulf, during the Third Year of the Torment Crusade.

Brother Tankred is a Dreadnought. who is awakened by Techmarine Arnulf to fight on the Eve of the Kasiroth Offensive.

Recruit Raclaw, on Kilhaven, has been chosen to join the Black Templars after being forced to fight for his life against fellow kinsmen and an alien tiger-creature called a Carnodon. Victorious, he is chosen to be tutored in the ways of war by Brother Brunner.

[edit] Bibliography

• Damnation Crusade (6-issue mini-series, December 2006-ongoing)

[edit] External links

• Boom Studios
• Preview of issue #1
• September 2006 interview with Dan Abnett about Damnation Crusade
• November 2006 interview with Ian Edginton about the title
• December 2006 interview with Dan Abnett