Iron Empires

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Iron empires
Publication information
Publisher Dark Horse
Format Metaseries
(series of limited series)
Publication date1994 - 2013
Creative team
Created byChristopher Moeller
Written by Christopher Moeller
Artist(s)Christopher Moeller

Iron Empires is a science fiction comic series written and painted by the American artist Christopher Moeller. It has three parts: Shadow Empires: Faith Conquers, first published as a limited series by Dark Horse in 1994, Sheva's War , published by Helix in 1998, and Iron Empires: Void, published by Forged Lord Comics in 2013.

Dark Horse reissued the comics as graphic novels in 2004, under the titles Iron Empires Volume 1: Faith Conquers and Iron Empires Volume 2: Sheva's War. The graphic-novel version of Faith Conquers also includes a painted version of the three part story The Passage, previously published in black and white as part of the anthology series Dark Horse Presents .

The comics formed the inspiration for the roleplaying game Burning Empires designed by Luke Crane and published by The Burning Wheel in 2006.

In 2013 Moeller ran a successful kickstarter [1] for a third volume entitled Iron Empires: Void through his own publisher Forged Lord Comics (created by Luke Crane, Chris Allingham, Thor Olavsrud and Moeller himself).

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References

  1. "Iron Empires: Void".