NEWS
CraveOnline's review of Northlanders #21
November 3, 2009
The last thing I expected when I opened issue #21 of Northlanders was to find the most terrifying comic released Halloween week. Sure, it's not in the traditional Halloween-y "guy with a knife is going to gut you" way, but the start of Brian Wood and arc artist Leandro Fernandez's new eight part "The Plague Widow" brings forth a sort of paranoia-fueled terror. Though I'm not one to buy into the media driven swine flu insanity, the extreme actions taken by the small village that is infected with the Black Plague is a horrifying reminder that human nature hasn't changed all that much since 1020 AD. It fears what it doesn't understand, turns its nose up at new ideas, and always turns to violence for a resolution. That is what makes this issue scary.
