title: Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths
author: Darko Macan
description: Grendel Drago is preparing for an honorable death against a mysterious monster on the outskirts of town. When the creature turns out to be a kindred spirit (another victim of radiation poisoning who has paid the terrible price of war) Drago devises a plan that will allow them both to leave this post-holocaust world with dignity. Ten years after Drago's death, the Agram clan is embroiled in war, and Drago's younger brother Goran has matured into the finest warrior in his clan. Unfortunately, he's also the most insubordinate, and his company gets banished to the front lines. The battlefield holds many lessons of fear, love, leadership, and loss for Goran. Grendel Tales: Devils And Deaths is a superlative graphic novel based on the original Grendal concept of Matt Wagner, and combines astonishingly well crafted artwork of Edvin Biukovic with Darko Marcan's tale of human triumph and tragedy based on a future warrior world where, for peasants, it makes little difference who is master. A thrilling saga that is easy to pick up, but hard to put down! -- <i>Midwest Book Review</i>
zlib_text: Then the ground rumbled �ercely, a real shock wave.
  Slaves screamed in terror and many followed Direfang, who
  stumbled to his knees as the ground shook harder.
  Steel Town …
   Hell Town now …
   the place had gone berserk.
  Steam spewed up from a wide rent in the earth to the south.
  Behind him a woman screamed shrilly. A man called to her, then
  both voices were silenced in a thunderous crash.
  Grallik N’ sera had always feared the greater number of slaves.
  He had nightmares about the slaves rising up and crushing the
  Dark Knights, and dread gripped him now as he neared the closest
  pen.
  His wall of �re lit up the whole camp, revealing the scale of the
  destruction that Steel Town had su� ered from this second q uake.
  Nothing stood, not a single wall or post. A cloud of dust, bigger
  and higher than the �rst q uake, rose up and shadowed all the
  knights and laborers who were picking themselves up and
  shu�
  ing around the camp. Grallik imagined this was what the
  Chaos War in the Abyss must have loo