MILWAUKIE, Ore. — Embark on a thrilling Afrofuturistic journey in Imbokodo, a new creator-owned series coming soon from Dark Horse Comics. This new comic series, featuring the greatest warriors in all of Ndawo, the Imbokodo, is written by Thabo Rametsi and Thabiso Mabanna of Nguniverse Studios, illustrated and colored by Katlego Motaung, and logo art by Gil Lazcano.
In the land of the pyramid sun, Ndawo, a single step for the Badimu (Gods) is a thousand Muntu(human) lifetimes. And in the war of the Badimu from the smallest cut shall flow rivers of Muntu blood… endless rivers of blood. War breaks out among the Badimu, casting a darkness over Ndawo. A darkness, that would birth genocide and war among the Muntu. And now a thousand years later—Ndawo remains divided into several Empires. As the brutal war reaches bloody crescendo, numerous young girls mysteriously go missing from their villages in the empire of Mwenemutapa, leaving behind only a trail of carnage in their wake.
Queen Nyameka of Mwenemutapa commands the greatest warriors in all of Ndawo, the Imbokodo, to investigate the missing girls when a nameless woman whose sister has also gone missing fights to secure her place amongst the Imbokodo to find her.
“I think some of my illustrative tastes for an African dark fantasy setting may have found a home,” says artist Katlego Motaung.
And, in the words of writers Thabo Rametsi and Thabiso Mabana, “Imbokodo is a love letter to African history, at its heart, it is a detective story about the love of family and the brutality of war. But the story and the world created represent so much more as it shows Africa as it truly is – bold, thriving, innovative and at the forefront of the world’s greatest stories. With the help of fellow South Africans and exciting South African comic book illustrator Katlego Motaung, aka DeadKatBarks, we look to honour the great warrior women of Africa – the likes of Nandi, Nzinga, Modjadji, Llinga, Amina, Nehanda and many other great warrior queens like the women who raised us. These books and films will pay homage to our majestic ancestry and immortalize African mythology and history as it should be.”
Imbokodo #1 (of 4) will arrive in comic shops on October 16, 2024, and is available for pre-order, at your local comic shop for $3.99.
About Nguniverse
Nguniverse Studios is a film production studio formed in 2020 by award-winning actor Thabo Rametsi and corporate finance strategist Thabiso Mabanna. The company was formed to tell African stories through highly bankable genres that would see Africans well represented in sci-fi, historical epics, superhero, action and comedy films and television.
About Thabo Rametsi
Thabo Rametsi is a multi-award-winning South African actor, writer, director and producer who has led critical and commercially successful African films like Kalushi, Amandla and Silverton Siege. He is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Myman Greenspan. Along with producing partner Thabiso Mabanna he formed Nguniverse Studios as a vehicle to tell genre-bending African stories through print and filmmaking. Through Imbokodo, his comic book writing debut, they hope to create a cinematic universe.
