Northlanders #27

Written by Brian Wood
Art by Leandro Fernandez

This is a pretty brutal issue of Northlanders, as Hilda must struggle to regain her daughter from the grips of Jens, the man from Gunborg's group that is in love with Hilda.  Meanwhile, Boris faces Gunborg in a challenge, and the two fight for most of the issue.  And, this being Northlanders, the fighting is pretty rough.

This arc has been an interesting exploration into the psychology of a town under siege (from plague, not enemies), and the lengths to which people will go to survive, or to protect what matters to them.  What has always made Northlanders work for me is that Wood uses the historical setting as a way of telling stories that could almost fit into modern times.

Good stuff.