Barbaric: Born in Blood #1 - Vault Comics, A New Era of Barbaric Begins — Moreci, Gooden & Duke Cover (Single Issue)

He's cursed to do good. He hates it. Barbaric: Born in Blood #1 from Vault Comics launches a new era of Owen the barbarian — blood-soaked, crouching, red axe in hand, two companions caged behind him, glowing purple demon skulls burning in the lower panel, the whole composition detonating in black, purple, and orange against a cover that commits fully to the chaos. "A New Era of Barbaric Begins!" Cover by Gooden & Duke. Creative team: Moreci, Gooden, Marques, Campbell. Vault Comics doing what Vault Comics does — loud, bloody, and completely unwilling to apologize for any of it.

What's Included:

• 📚 Barbaric: Born in Blood #1 — Vault Comics — Direct Edition
• 🎨 $4.99 US — Direct Edition with barcode
• 🦧 Back cover: Barbaric series blurb — "Meet Orrick, the tortured barbarian now turned master torturer... Will the cursed to do good barbarian finally do some actual good? Probably not! But some much worse guys will almost certainly lose their heads. Yummy!" — the most accurate back cover copy in the run

Issue Details:

• ⚔️ Vault Comics — Barbaric: Born in Blood #1 — $4.99 US — Direct Edition
• 🔥 Story: Owen the barbarian, cursed to do good, meets Orrick — vampire slaying, dragon killing, and secrets that should have stayed buried
• ✏️ Creative Team: Michael Moreci (writer), Nathan Gooden (art), Ruben Marques (colors), Jim Campbell (letters); Cover by Gooden & Duke
• 🔥 Single issue — bagged for protection.

Why Collectors Love It:

Barbaric is the series that asked "what if a barbarian was magically compelled to be a hero but absolutely did not want to be" and then committed to that premise for every single page. Born in Blood #1 is the new-era entry point — clean jumping-on issue, Gooden & Duke cover that earns its black-and-purple palette, and interior pages that open with vampire slaying and escalate from there. The back cover copy — "some much worse guys will almost certainly lose their heads. Yummy!" — is the series in a sentence. Vault Comics at its most gleefully unhinged.

Condition Notes:

Shows wear consistent with handling and storage — expect minor spine stress and cover scuffing as shown in photos. Interior pages bright with strong color saturation. Bagged for protection.

Perfect For:

Barbaric series collectors, Vault Comics enthusiasts, Michael Moreci fans, Nathan Gooden art hunters, indie fantasy comic completists, and anyone who has ever been cursed to do good and found the whole arrangement deeply inconvenient.