Barb vs The Leech Queen

What’s it about?

The story.

The great war is over, and Barb the berzerker and her huge, gentle yeti friend Porkchop are now working to hold together a shaky peace across the land of Bailiwick. But when they arrive in the city of Skulladune, they find monsters and people snapping at each other over the silliest things - and a sinister shapeshifting force pulling the strings. This is the Leech Queen, who wants the mighty Ghost Blade for herself, and she manipulates Barb into entering Skulladune's notoriously savage contest to become city marshal, then tricks Porkchop into joining too. Soon the friends are up against a gelatinous cube, a sewer labyrinth, an epic sausage-eating showdown and worse. Dan and Jason's fourth Barb the Brave book keeps the series' irresistible formula: breakneck comic action, expressive full-colour cartooning, big monster-movie set pieces and a friendship you cheer for. The humour is broad and gleefully gross, the pacing is relentless, and there's just enough real peril to keep the stakes high. A perfect pick for graphic-novel-devouring readers and fans of Bunny vs Monkey, and a strong continuation best read after the earlier books to follow the arc of the Ghost Blade.