Broken Frontier

Come October’s Witchblade #151, Tim Seeley, creator of Hack/Slash, is taking over the writing chores on Top Cow’s flagship title, USA Today reports. Joining Seeley is the art duo of Brazilian penciller Diego Bernard and inker Fred Benes (yes, Benes, Fred is the brother of DC artist Ed Benes).

According to the USA Today story, Seeley will take Sara Pezzini to new places, as he’s moving her from Manhattan to Chicago. In the Windy City, our female detective won’t have to deal with the other main Top Cow universe characters as much, nor her past. This is very much a new beginning for Sara.

Seeley puts it as follows:

"It's going to give me a chance to give her a new rogues gallery in a new location. My interest in it is more to add to the mythology than to dig up what's been done already.

She's an unmarried, thirtysomething woman living in Chicago now and doing a job that's not traditionally done by women. Those aspects of the story are my favorite ones to write.

"People tend to think of the book as about bikinis and tiny outfits and exploiting the Witchblade body. We're going to do a little bit of that, but it'll be more about the character and being a detective."

Check out more of Diego Bernard's artwork.