BRZRKR: City of Darkness Throws Keanu Reeves' Immortal Killer Into a 1994 Hong Kong Triad War

BOOM! Studios and Keanu Reeves are sending the immortal killer at the center of BRZRKR somewhere the main series hasn't gone yet: Hong Kong, 1994, in the middle of the UK-to-China handover. BRZRKR: City of Darkness, written by Mike Costa with art by Kenny Wong, drops the ageless warrior B into a triad gang war that reads like unfinished business decades in the making.

The story is filtered through a young triad member whose life gets upended the moment B walks into the chaos armed, as the solicitation puts it, with "ten thousand bullets" to settle the score. It's the kind of John Woo-inspired, bullet-riddled "heroic bloodshed" throwback the BRZRKR universe has leaned into since it first launched off a 2021 Kickstarter that raised over $1.4 million — and whose first issue went on to move somewhere around 600,000-650,000 copies.

City of Darkness arrives November 18 as a 56-page, $9.99 graphic novel, with covers from Kenny Wong, Antonio Fuso, Juni Ba, and Raúl Allén — the kind of multi-artist cover rollout BOOM! reserves for books it wants retailers to treat as an event.

Original reporting: Bleeding Cool.