Wexley watches his own ghost on the screen. Heroic, impossible. Trenody whispers of aliens, destinies, bruise of old bloodlines. The past still drags its chain: the gauntlet, the crown, the grave under the docks. The twin walks free. ▶️ youtu.be/i04gXYH3oko 🎧 watchtowerintel.com/2025/12/05/c...

Old English lit wasn’t just dusty text, it was an identity war. Then Heaney drops Beowulf in 1999, channels “thole,” and bam, the past punches through the page. Anglo-Saxon meets Irish soul, and it sings. 🛡️🔥 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-a-ne...

Cnut didn’t just take the English crown, he owned it. Viking prince turns King in 1016, cleans house, centralizes power, builds a North Sea Empire, and rewrites the rulebook. Total legend. 🛡️👑 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/in-our-time-...

Viking and samurai, locked in a deadly combat, staring each other down, ready to spill blood ‛til one of ‛em hits the dirt! Dedicated to Peter N. Story @josephaleo.bsky.social Artwork by @jmringuet.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/cold-embrace/

Ulfberht: the medieval lightsaber forged with steel so pure, folks thought aliens made it. Turns out? Europe might’ve had the sauce all along. Secrets are crackin’, steel’s talkin’. 🗡️ 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/one-step-clo...

A bridge. Two warriors. Only one shall cross! Dedicated to Keith Bennett, who lives and breathes rock and roll and already looks like a durn Viking. Story @josephaleo.bsky.social Artwork by Dejan Mandić vikingsvssamurai.com/the-bridge/

Takashi Miike goes full samurai-slasher in Blade of the Immortal. Cursed swordsman + blood feuds + freakshow villains = 100th film mayhem. It’s brutal, it’s bonkers, it’s Miike. 🍜⚔️ 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/blade-of-the...

A rogue's gallery of comic-book killers-for-hire: Buğra the Istanbul art-sorcerer, Fowler the cosmos-wrangler, Dejan the Belgrade design bruiser, Ringuet the globe-trotting outlaw, Dale the color alchemist, and Jones the UK letter-slinger. Roll deep → vikingsvssamurai.com/about/

Strip Panel Naked ain't just geeking out over comics, it's breaking 'em down like a crime scene. Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou shows how layout controls your brain, your eye, your feelings. You like comics? Learn 'em. 🎥 vikingsvssamurai.com/strip-pa...

The Legend of the Satsuma Samurai isn't about slicing heads, it's about swallowing pride. Hirata gives us warriors who trade swords for shovels, learning that survival sometimes means bending before breaking. 🌾 vikingsvssamurai.com/the-lege...

Frank Miller's Ronin ain't just a comic, it's a samurai sword slicing through the guts of cyberpunk NYC. Reincarnation, demons, and explosive panels. This is manga-meets-Moebius with a katana to grind. 💥 vikingsvssamurai.com/ronin-2/

A tale of heartbreak and soul-searching: an old-timer grappling with his roots amidst crashing waves from Japan's shores to a Norwegian fjord. Dedicated to @gailsimone.bsky.social, a master of her craft. vikingsvssamurai.com/the-wave...

Forget honor codes and Zen philosophies. In Samurai and Ninja, Antony Cummins drags the truth out by the scruff. These warriors weren't living in a philosophy scroll. They were trained killers in a war-torn hellscape. ⚔️ vikingsvssamurai.com/samurai-...

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A petty thief becomes a dead warlord's body double and walks straight into the theater of war. Kurosawa's Kagemusha ain't action, it's art. Ironic, tragic, and heavy as hell. 🎭 vikingsvssamurai.com/kagemusha/

Oddr's wild tale: a bear bride, cubs, and heartbreak. Japanese kids are mortified, a maiden asks, "True?" Oddr says, "Every word." Cue the rain, cue the pain. Full story: vikingsvssamurai.com/the-bridegro...

Before Tokugawa became shōgun, he had a ninja:the ninja. Path of the Assassin follows Hattori Hanzō, blade in hand, honor on the line. Koike & Kojima turn politics into bloodsport. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/path-of-...

Rødrick, the blind shaman, cryptically reveals how he lost his sight to his samurai captor! Dedicated to Roy Thomas, who introduced me to Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Norse mythology. Story @josephaleo.bsky.social Artwork by @bugracomic.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/a-man-who-kn...

Publishing ain't for posers. Joe Biel's A People's Guide to Publishing gives you the raw, gritty blueprint: from printing to pitching, contracts to cash flow. It's DIY punk meets book biz 101. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/a-people...

Forget boring lectures, Nutty History throws you into the wacky, weird, and totally bonkers side of the past. If history had an afterparty, this would be it. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/nutty-hi...

A crew of art-slinging heavy hitters: Buğra the Istanbul spellcaster, Fowler the cosmic maestro, Dejan the Belgrade dynamo, Ringuet the globetrotting storyteller, Dale the color alchemist, and Jones the lettering outlaw. Comics never saw 'em coming. vikingsvssamurai.com/about/

Twilight of the Æsir I picks up where Thor's Angels left off. Dan Carlin walks through the dying gasps of the old gods and the slow, bloody sunset of the Pagan Germanic world. Christianity's knocking, and the Æsir ain't answering. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/hardcore...

Beowulf & Grendel looks the part: icy landscapes, troll blood, and all. But where's the savage bite? Butler swings, Skarsgård broods, but the film pulls its punches. Great fur. Mid roar. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/beowulf-...

OG manga heat. Lone Wolf and Cub is the story of a disgraced executioner and his baby boy on a road paved with corpses. Koike & Kojima didn't just make a manga, they changed the game. Revenge never looked so poetic. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/lone-wol...

Rødrick, the blind shaman, forces Hansel and Hideo to confront their deepest fears. Family secrets are revealed! Story @josephaleo.bsky.social and Mark Larranaga Artwork by @bugracomic.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/that-which-t...

Agent Grayson wakes to barking dogs, a scream like glass, and the old bunker‑stench crawling back into his lungs. The past won’t stay buried. Not the war. Not the thing he carried out of the earth. Tonight…it’s awake again. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHTC... 🎧 watchtowerintel.com/2025/11/21/c...

Bryce Wexley wakes to blood and ruin. Vince Caruso frees him from the tape, but not from what followed him out of Alpine. The impostor is dead. The sickness returns. And north of La Jolla, a survivor of Heaven’s Gate waits. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jj8... 🎧 watchtowerintel.com/2025/11/07/c...

No epic duels at sunset. Twilight Samurai is slow-burn, slice-of-life perfection. Seibei Iguchi's a widower with kids, a sword, and no time for honor games… until life forces his hand. Yamada makes restraint feel lethal. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/twilight...

Hiroshi’s village? Yeah, it's peaceful, until samurai come for tribute and Vikings swoop in, turning the place into a nightmare of chains and fear. Family, honor, and blood are all that remain. Inspired by Morten Oxenboell's work. Artwork: @bugracomic.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/thralls/

Samurai Jack is minimalist mayhem with soul. Tartakovsky's lone samurai slashes through genre, time, and silence in a visual epic that's part Kurosawa, part sci-fi fever dream. It ain't a cartoon, it's a sword-swinging symphony. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/samurai-...

Viking and samurai, locked in a deadly combat, staring each other down, ready to spill blood ‛til one of ‛em hits the dirt! Dedicated to Peter N. Story @josephaleo.bsky.social Artwork by @jmringuet.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/cold-embrace/

Ground Zero. Senator Wexley walks from the smoke with ash on his hands and destiny in his mouth. Whitman calls him “the man who walked through fire.” Behind the optics & praise, a knife hums in its case. Alpine, still waits. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jj8... 🎧 watchtowerintel.com/2025/11/07/c...

Leone watched Westerns in Rome, lips outta sync and hearts full of dust. Then he made his own. Once Upon a Time in the West is the most brutal ballet you'll ever watch. Part parody, part tribute, all legend. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/once-upo...

Forget "How to Draw", this is "How to Tell Stories That Hit Like a Freight Train." Scott McCloud's Making Comics breaks it all down: flow, frames, font, fists. It's the storytelling dojo for anyone who thinks in pictures. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/making-c...

You want comic book royalty? I got you a rogue's gallery of killer creatives. Berah, Fowler, Mandić, Ringuet, Dale, Jones: six names, all murderers of mediocrity. Talent like this? It don't knock, it kicks down doors. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/about/

Mongols show up with bombs. Samurai show up with blades. Nature shows up with a typhoon. Twice. Turnbull's The Mongol Invasions of Japan is blood, tactics, and a divine wind that says: Not today, Khubilai. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/the-mong...

Wanna time-travel through Japan's past without falling asleep? The Samurai Archives Podcast blends battle, books, and big brains. From ancient empires to the fall of the samurai: informal, informed, and no BS. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/samurai-...

Tsukamoto is confounded about how the hell to take down Toshirô Nakadai, who's gone and buddied up with those Viking bastards. Enter Snorfingr, a damn force of nature, offering his services as a bravo! Story @josephaleo.bsky.social Artwork by @bugracomic.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/sellsword/

Arak dropped in '81, lookin’ like Conan’s cousin, then flipped the script. Native warrior, myth killer, thunder son. Vikings? Legit. Gods? Global. Stereotypes? Nah, he crushed those too. This ain’t no knockoff, it’s a cult classic. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/arak-son-of-...

Thor's Angels started as just another Hardcore History episode, now it's a full-blown audio war hammer. Dan Carlin dives into gods, Germans, Jesus, and biker gangs. Dark Ages? More like lit fuse. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/hardcore...

Buckle up, pilgrims! Brynhildr's birth was tragic. Mom dies, dad adores her, brother Hansel’s burns with hatred. Fast forward to Japan: Hansel’s a traitor, dad’s dead. Brynhildr’s on a quest for vengeance and she has a plan! 🗡️ Artwork: @bugracomic.bsky.social vikingsvssamurai.com/oath-of-veng...

Started as a one-off, sliced its way into legend. The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) gave us a blind masseur with a blade and a moral code sharper than his sword. Shintaro Katsu is Zatoichi. Franchise? Nah, this was fate. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/the-tale...

December 5, 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿 hits theaters. 4 hrs 41 mins of pure, uncut Tarantino! Full-color Crazy 88 fight, new anime scenes, and not a filter in sight. QT’s vision, fully unleashed. Take the day off and see it. 🎟 vikingsvssamurai.com/kill-bill-th...

A bridge. Two warriors. Only one shall cross! Dedicated to Keith Bennett, who lives and breathes rock and roll and already looks like a durn Viking. Story @josephaleo.bsky.social Artwork by Dejan Mandić vikingsvssamurai.com/the-bridge/

Hurstwic started as cosplay with ambition. Ron Black & Casey Dorman swinging foam swords, chasing Viking truth. They burned out, sure. But the site? That stayed. And now it’s a digital longhouse for Viking age junkies. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/hurstwic/

I think about Nakadai almost weekly. Mifune is a powerhouse, no doubt, but Nakadai has such a dynamic range. He will be missed.

The Norns say I'm fated to make Vikings vs Samurai. Never made a comic before, but DIY runs in my veins. I sat down with Spacetrawler's Christopher Baldwin to soak up some wisdom. Tools, tactics, and truth bombs. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/christop...

This ain't bedtime stories, it's the Norse gods unchained. Davidson cracks open the myths with fire, fury, and facts. From Odin's one eye to Ragnarok's doom drum, this book hits like a lightning bolt from Mjölnir. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/viking-n...

Nitobe's Bushido says chivalry ain't dead, it's just wearing new clothes. Like a cherry blossom, it fades but never vanishes. Feudal Japan's gone, but the code? Still whispering in the wind, telling you to stand tall, fight fair. 🔗 vikingsvssamurai.com/bushido-...

On 9/11, Wexley rises. Power isn’t granted, it’s taken. Alpine still whispers. A twin erased. A knife pulsing with memory. Trenody calls it TELAH. You call it the Entity. It’s not new. It’s remembering. And it remembers you. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jj8... 🎧 watchtowerintel.com/2025/11/07/c...