Die Wergelder, Volume 1

The new manga from "Blade of the Immortal" creator Hiroaki Samura!

Warning: Contains adult content. Not recommended for anyone under the age of 18.

A PRICE TO BE PAID IN PAIN AND BLOOD
Wergelder: In Germanic law, the money paid by a murderer or his family to the victim's family in atonement. A mysterious deal goes down on a remote island known as a red light pleasure district. An insane fight between a blonde sniper and an assassin in a Chinese dress brings up questions about who the players are in this deal. A group of misfit yakuza gets caught in the crossfire while trying to get in on the deal, or at least find out what's being dealt. At the center of it all is a woman who has been wronged in the worst imaginable ways. She will have her revenge. The Eisner award-winning creator of Blade of the Immortal, Hiroaki Samura, presents a new badass thriller with some very bad ladies!


About the Author
Born in 1970, Hiroaki Samura became one of the first Japnaese artists to become widely popular among American comics readers when his Blade of the Immortalbegan publication in English in 1997. Uniquely for a manga artist, Samura enjoyed a partial education in classical art before dropping out of college to start drawing Blade.