Dead Body Road
Cover to first issue. Art by Matteo Scalera.
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics/Skybound
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Action
Publication date	December 2013 – May 2013 Bad Blood: June 2020 – December 2020
No. of issues	6 Bad Blood: 6
Main character(s)	Orson Gage Bad Blood: Bree Hale
Creative team
Written by	Justin Jordan
Artist(s)	Matteo Scalera Bad Blood: Ben Tiesma
Letterer	Pat Brosseau
Colorist(s)	Moreno Dinisio Bad Blood: Mat Lopes
Editor(s)	Sean Mackiewicz Bad Blood: Jon Moisan
Collected editions
Dead Body Road	ISBN 978-1632150479
Vol. 2: Bad Blood	ISBN 978-1534317215

Dead Body Road is an American comic book series created by writer Justin Jordan and artist Matteo Scalera. It was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con by Skybound Entertainment as a collaboration with Image Comics, and began publication in December of the same year.^[1] A trade paperback collecting the series was released in June 2014.

Plot summary

Orson Gage is out for revenge. Already damaged from a destructive career as lawman, Gage is going from broken to shattered as his wife is gunned down in a bank heist gone wrong. While the criminal gang that pulled it off is busy fighting amongst themselves about the blood-soaked rewards of their take, Gage is only looking for one thing: retribution.^[2]

Bad Blood

A sequel miniseries was released in 2020, titled Dead Body Road: Bad Blood, which follows Bree Hale trying to save her brother from local crime boss Monk Sinclair. It ran for 6 issues from June to December 2020.

Collected editions

Reception

According to review aggregator Comic Book Roundup, the first trade paperback received an average score of 8.3/10 based on 70 individual reviews of the collected single issues.^[5] The sequel series' trade paperback received an average score of 7.9/10 based on 26 individual reviews of the six issues.^[6]

External links

• Dead Body Road at Skybound
• Dead Body Road at Image Comics

References