Cosmic Chaos

Keanu Reeves’s BRZRKR faces off against HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu in Steve Skroce’s Poetry Of Madness

KEANU REEVES’S BRZRKR has a live-action film and two-series anime adaptation in the pipeline. But before then, Reeves’s creation is heading in a different direction. After the comic’s initial 12-issue run, co-written by Matt Kindt – which achieved record first issue sales, breaking the 2015 figures set by Star Wars – it’s returning in a new one-shot written and drawn by Steve Skroce.

Skroce is known for his storyboarding on films like The Matrix, Speed Racer and V For Vendetta, in addition to his comics output such as the Clive Barker-created Ectokid and the Thing-starring Marvel miniseries Clobberin’ Time. Now the Canadian illustrator is taking the immortal warrior B into more fantastical horror territory, as he defends Atlantis against HP Lovecraft’s ominous cosmic entity Cthulhu – with plenty of B’s trademark ultraviolence chucked in for good measure.