La compagnia della forca

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The Company of the Gallows (original title: La Compagnia della Forca) is a comic book series written and drawn by Italian artist Magnus.

The story is an epic quest without its basic elements: the group, the aim, the battles, a clear separation between the good and the evil, a strong protagonist who decides what to do. The absence of such elements turns the story into a parody. Heroes became anti-heroes, as shown before in Italian comics only in former Bunker-Magnus's productions and in Bonvi's characters.

He drew it in his typical style, with sharp blacks and whites, without any shades. He used a grotesque style such as Goya and Daumier in their litographies and such as himself in Alan Ford.

The text, instead, is a strange delirium that mixed Max Bunker's style, Tolkien, medieval history, classical Northern European and Middle Eastern tradition, and personal travels (for example, Magnus' travel to Croatia with his wife).