The highly anticipated silent fantasy Step by Bloody Step is a comic to behold

polygon.com:

Step By Bloody Step is a challenge.

The new series is a wordless adventure in an original fantasy world, viewed through the eyes of a young Girl and her protector: a Giant in a suit of armor. The Girl grows as they make their way through increasingly treacherous terrain, and by the end of the oversized first issue, new questions arise around the Giant’s identity and the strange blue men following them.

So, Step By Bloody Step is a challenge to readers, to take a chance on a silent book without any of the characters that engender familiarity and success in the American comics market. It’s a challenge to the industry to carve out a space for art-driven comic books to thrive. And most importantly, it’s a challenge for its creators.

Simon “Si” Spurrier is known for his evocative prose and distinctive dialogue, but not for restraint in his scripting. Can he step back and let his art team carry the narrative? Artist Matías Bergara has proven that he can draw basically any idea, but can he tell a silent story with the clarity and depth that keeps an audience engaged?

The answer is yes. Spurrier and Bergara, joined by colorist Matheus Lopes and graphic designer Emma Price, push themselves to do something different with their latest project, and the experiment is a complete success.

Spurrier and Bergara’s partnership began at a level most creative teams only dream of reaching. Coda, their 12-issue miniseries for Boom! Studios, is one of the best fantasy comics of the last decade, a remix of Tolkienesque mythology centered on the crumbling relationship between a bard and his orc warrior wife. It represented a massive level-up for Bergara, who had previously worked on gritty crime and horror comics like Cannibal and Sons of