Dead Body Road

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Dead Body Road
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Cover to first issue. Art by Matteo Scalera.
Publication information
Publisher Image Comics/Skybound
ScheduleMonthly
Format Limited series
GenreAction
Publication dateDecember 2013 – May 2013
Bad Blood:
June 2020 – December 2020
No. of issues6
Bad Blood: 6
Main character(s)Orson Gage
Bad Blood:
Bree Hale
Creative team
Written by Justin Jordan
Artist(s)Matteo Scalera
Bad Blood:
Ben Tiesma
Letterer(s) Pat Brosseau
Colorist(s) Moreno Dinisio
Bad Blood:
Mat Lopes
Editor(s)Sean Mackiewicz
Bad Blood:
Jon Moisan
Collected editions
Dead Body Road ISBN   978-1632150479
Vol. 2: Bad Blood ISBN   978-1534317215

Dead Body Road is an American comic book series created by writer Justin Jordan and artist Matteo Scalera. It was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con by Skybound Entertainment as a collaboration with Image Comics, and began publication in December of the same year. [1] A trade paperback collecting the series was released in June 2014.

Contents

Plot summary

Orson Gage is out for revenge. Already damaged from a destructive career as lawman, Gage is going from broken to shattered as his wife is gunned down in a bank heist gone wrong. While the criminal gang that pulled it off is busy fighting amongst themselves about the blood-soaked rewards of their take, Gage is only looking for one thing: retribution. [2]

Bad Blood

A sequel miniseries was released in 2020, titled Dead Body Road: Bad Blood, which follows Bree Hale trying to save her brother from local crime boss Monk Sinclair. It ran for 6 issues from June to December 2020.

Collected editions

TitleMaterial collectedFormatPublication dateISBN
Dead Body RoadDead Body Road #1–6 Trade paperback June 25, 2014 [3] 978-1632150479
Dead Body Road: Bad BloodDead Body Road: Bad Blood #1–6January 27, 2021 [4] 978-1534317215

Reception

According to review aggregator Comic Book Roundup, the first trade paperback received an average score of 8.3/10 based on 70 individual reviews of the collected single issues. [5] The sequel series' trade paperback received an average score of 7.9/10 based on 26 individual reviews of the six issues. [6]

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