Rebellion have announced Robbie Morrison and Henry Flint’s entire Shakara saga will be collected into a single volume next year. The 320-page trade paperback Shakara: The Complete Collection will release March 12, 2025, retailing for £29.99 with pre-orders now open on the 2000 AD webshop.
Shakara debuted in 2000 AD’s December 2021 released Prog 2002 (Christmas Special). The series featured a mysterious entity waging it’s own personal war across a war-torn galaxy seeking vengeance for the extermination of their race. It ran for five series, concluding with Shakara: Avenger in 2011. It has previously been collected as two volumes – Shakara: The Avenger and Shakara: The Destroyer – in 2013. The first series was recently republished in Best of 2000 AD volume 6.
Considered a highlight of 2000 AD during the first decade of the new millennium, it was powered by the stellar visuals of British artist Henry Flint coming into the peak of his powers. Flint would go on to create other fan favourite series for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic including Zombo with Al Ewing, and the first volume of Proteus Vex with Michael Carroll.
Scottish writer Robbie Morrison was a solid presence in 2000 AD from the 1990s to the 2010s – most famously creating the Nikolai Dante series with Simon Fraser which would go on a mammoth run from 1997 to 2012. He may be better known in the US for being the writer of the second volume of The Authority, picking up from Mark Millar‘s acclaimed run in 2003. In recent years he has become seldom seen in 2000 AD – and the world of comics in general – as, since 2021, he has begun a new career trajectory as an award winning crime novelist. His debut crime novel Edge of the Grave, set in 1930s Glasgow, received the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger 2022.
The Rebellion announcement:
“One of 2000 AD’s most unpredictable, visceral and impressive stories, the complete tale of Shakara is now coming to collection into a single incredible volume!
“The galaxy is in turmoil. Once a place of peace and order, now a time of terror has descended upon it, with races waging war upon one another unchecked by any authority. Planets, civilizations, even entire star systems face total annihilation or enslavement. But a vengeful figure has emerged from the chaos, striking at targets with a ruthless determination. This alien being calls itself Shakara and it is seemingly bent on wreaking revenge on those responsible for the destruction of its people.
“Shakara is the most feared entity in the universe, the living embodiment of a murdered species and an unstoppable killing machine determined to bring vengeance upon those responsible for annihilating a whole species – and not a single entity in the whole of known universe will be able to stop it! The Shakara were thought to be long dead – but retribution is coming from beyond the grave!
“Written by Robbie Morrison (The Authority, Nikolai Dante) and featuring the incredible art of Henry Flint (Zombo, Judge Dredd), Shakara is a modern 2000 AD saga, a visually outrageous and impossibly epic tale of shocking violence and destruction!”
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