Warlord News

Being a big fan, I always keep my eye out for comics news related to Mike Grell's Warlord. Most of the time, new items are few and far between, so it's kind of exciting to have two things on the horizon.

The first and biggest is the official word that there will be a second volume of The Warlord by Mike Grell Omnibus. It's scheduled for November and will include the last Grell issues of the original run and the first annual, plus some additional material. This leaves the 90s limited series and the 2009 series for a volume 3. I'd also like to see the remainder of the original series collected, even though Grell wasn't involved, but that's just me.

Also, the current World's Finest series by Mark Waid and Adrián Gutiérrez is slated to have a 3-part Skartaris arc starting in May with issue 51. Check out the covers by Dan Mora of the 3 issues here:

Warlord by Mike Grell Omnibus Vol. 1

We finally have a solicitation for the Warlord Omnibus mentioned back in the fall. It supposedly only has a price of $75.00, which seems low given the page count (1040 pages).

In any case, it's supposed to include 1st Issue Special #8, Warlord #1-50, and Amazing World of DC Comics #12. For a volume 2 (if there is one) that leaves the non-backup stories from Warlord #52-71 (#51 is a reprint), Warlord Annual #1, Warlord (1992 limited series) #1-6, and Warlord (2009) #1-16 for a total of around 1005 pages in that one, by my count.

A Warlord Omnibus at Last?

 

It's been reported on Mike Grell's website that two volumes of a Mike Grell's The Warlord Omnibus is coming in 2025. What will be in them? Well, certainly First Issue Special #8, Warlord volume 1 issues #1-71 (most of the issues after 52 were either scripted or ghost written by Sharon Grell, but Mike gets sole credit in the issues), Warlord Annual #1, and the 1992 limited series issues #1-6.

The 2006 reboot had nothing to do with Grell's series and is best forgotten. The 16 issues of the 2009 series were written by Grell (and sometimes drawn by him), so hopefully they'll will be in the 2nd omnibus. There's also a guest appearance in Green Arrow (1988) #27-28 by Grell and Jurgens that hopefully gets included.

I wish the full run of the original series was getting collected. Even though the Grell issues are my favorite, I started reading Warlord in the Burkett era/Jurgens era, so I have some nostalgia for that stuff too. Still, if having it relegated to apocrypha is how it must be to get Grell's Travis Morgan saga in omnibus format, then so be it.