The character is all about what happens when you have that unusual relationship with sickness and death that’s only made possible by modern medicine. When you are someone who can actually take a medicine that stops death’s progress, then you have a different relationship with death. You can choose to do nothing and suffer the consequences, or you can choose to chase death away using medicine. And King Death kind of fears him for that reason. So the bad guy comes out of all of [Joe’s] feelings about the war and his father being dead and the lack of light in the house, because there is an electrical storm and the lights go out, which creates this bizarre, dark atmosphere of doom and apocalypse in the other world of the Iron Kingdom.
— Grant Morrison’s “Barbarian” - Comic Book Resources
I’m expecting big things out of Joe the Barbarian, I’ve gotta say.
I’m expecting big things out of Joe the Barbarian, I’ve gotta say.
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