Blood and Thunder is a five-issue comic book

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 limited series

Limited series

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 from Boom! Studios

Boom! Studios

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, written by Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett

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 and Ian Edginton

Ian Edginton

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, set in the Warhammer 40,000

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 Universe.

It follows the Ork

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 Waaagh! of Warboss Gorgutz and his various underlings, trying to avoid his ever raging wrath and kill as much as they possibly can. The story is told from the perspective of Izraell Castillian, an Imperial Guard

Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000)

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 officer captured and kept as a pet by the Ork Nob Skyva.

Plot

Demaris Tertiary has been assaulted by Waaagh! Gorgutz, and the Ork Nobz Ardnock, Knutta and Skyva are under threat from Gorgutz - whoever is last into the fortress the Ork horde is attacking is to be fed to the Warboss's prized collection of exotic squigs. Colonel Izraell Honor Castillian and his 96th Tallarn Desert Raiders desperately try to fight back the Ork Waaagh! at the garrison of the Senshu factory hive. Izraell's backup is defeated and his own armoured vehicle platoon is captured by the Orks and used against the garrison. The garrison is quickly destroyed, and the colonel falls down in the debris only to survive by falling into a sewage pipe. Ork Nob Skyva finds that he is the last to enter the breached garrison, much to his frustration, but then discovers Izraell and mistakes the sewage-covered human for some kind of exotic squig. Hoping to bargain for his life, Skyva captures Izraell and takes him to Gorgutz, along with Knutta and Ardnock. As they walk, Izraell, reaching through the bars of his cage, picks up a discarded plasma pistol from a pile of garbage and attempts to kill the three Nobz. Skyva, however, survives and Gorgutz believes that Skyva killed Knutta and Ardnock in order to avoid being fed to his squigs. Impressed, Gorgutz spares Skyva and suggests he keep Izraell as a lucky charm.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback

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• Blood and Thunder (5-issue limited series, December 2007-March 2008, tpb, 128 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1934506311)

See also

• Warhammer 40,000 comics
  Warhammer 40,000 comics
  Warhammer 40,000 comics are spin-offs and tie-ins based in the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe. Over the years these have been published by different sources...
  
  
• Damnation Crusade
  Damnation Crusade
  Damnation Crusade is a six-issue comic book limited series from Boom! Studios, written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton.Set in the fictional world of Warhammer 40,000, it is a vision of never-ending war. Its storyline follows several different Space Marines of the Black Templars chapter.-Characters...
  
  , a previous Warhammer 40k series, about the Black Templars Space Marines.
• Forge of War
  Forge of War
  Forge of War is a five-issue American comic book limited series from Boom! Studios, written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton.Set in the high-fantasy world of Warhammer Fantasy, it follows several characters of the Averland army, a county within the Empire, and their conflict against the forces of...
  
  , Warhammer Fantasy comic by the same writing team.

External links

• Blood and Thunder at Boom! Studios
• Preview of Issue #1, Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources
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  , October 24, 2007
• Review of Issue #1, Comic Pants, October 24th, 2007