GRENDEL By Matt Wagner | A 40-year Odyssey Of Evil

[@MattDraper]

Vivat For Every Kind of Geek!

[@benparrish672]

Seeing you in this comments section, giving the seal of approval, convinced me to subscribe

[@ricksanchezdeluniversoc1379]

Talk about comics again man dont be egotistical

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

I’m a simple man- I see a KZbin video about my all-time favorite comic, I click. Vivat Grendel!

[@jamesbravo1931]

Grendel is by far my favorite tale. It has inspired and captivated me in many ways. Glad to see much more videos studying the devil's deeds. We're only scratching the surface of Mr. Wagner's work

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

One of the most important independent, underground artists and writers. Been with Matt since comico. Before the TMNT rage. Original, groundbreaking, unique,excellent 👌

[@zackeryparkerson]

Grendel is the only comic art adorning my walls at home. I love Grendel so, so much.

[@BeastWreck]

Thanks so much for this. Matt Wagner was a huge part of my indie comics journey. My friend in middle school would bring in issues of MAGE and GRENDEL, and I was immediately hooked. We would scrounge through back issue bins at the local comic store to try and fill the holes in our collection, and it opened me up to trying out loads of amazing new books from indie publishers. I have committed to read anything Wagner has a part in ever since.

[@gachaalexstudio9744]

Grendel Is Really One of Best Comic Exist, Deserves More Attention

[@devinphillips9704]

This is a good video, and thank you for making it, it's extremely well done. But I have to take exception to Grendel being described as evil. Matt Wagner has stated in many interviews that Grendel, whether it's Hunter Rose or the just the "spirit" of Grendel as it moves and grows, is not a force of evil, but aggression. Aggression has many violent and evil expressions, to be sure, and it can be argued that more often than not aggression tends to lean in those directions, but it can also have more positive, even more moral, outcomes. Grendel was intended as an exploration of the "shades of gray" of morality, in contrast to Mage's more good vs. evil binary, but because Grendel was in essence a tragic story (or a series of tragic stories, rather), those grays were always going to be pretty dark.

[@mattsmylie]

Grendel is my #1 favorite series, so this is right up my alley, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for all your work on it!

[@thomasromanelli2561]

Warchild was my first introduction to the Grendel saga, and the impetus for me to explore this fascinating character and all of the individuals that would follow. Wagner wrote many good stories, although I think Four Devil's, One Hell was exceptionally strong- fleshing out for distinct characters that carried the mantle of Grendel, each in their own unique way, and ultimately standing together to face the looming threat from an unseen quarter. Now I have to go to my collection, find this series, and reread it. Great video & thanks for sharing!

[@Izzo-io2ou]

My favorite work by Wagner is Mage, which til today still holds up. Great story, awesome characters, and a new take on an old story.

[@rutherfordappraisal258]

I picked up Warchild issue #1 back near the end of my serious comic reading days and stayed with that series through its completion, even though I had no knowledge of the character’s background or history. It’s one of the comics I’ll still take out to this day and re-read from time to time.

[@jrucker4181]

Excellent video. I love Grendel. Hunter Rose was of course a master class in writing a villain, and to me Orion was the hard choices a leader makes. Of course the cyborg is so cool visually, but so lost and tragic. So many other great stories in between. As I grow older the more I appreciate this series and see things I never picked up on as a child.

[@mikewillis9537]

War-child was my 1st taste of grendal & once I found devil by the deed it was cemented in my heart lol

[@peterhopkins4602]

When i discovered comic shops i became a reader of Nexus,miracleman,elementals,and the monthly Grendel series that this(somewhat) malefic force was the star of the series kept me hooked for years thanks for the overview......

[@choncoocho1392]

I watch a lot of comics content e.g. comic tropes, comics explained, cartoon kayfabe (r.i.p. ed), etc. - this video was a stand out. You produced something truly special and I'd love to see more content of this quality. Thank you for your hard work, this was an extremely pleasurable watch 👍

[@allenrubinstein3696]

I've followed Grendel since the first issue of the Comico series in 1986, and I'm astonished that he's still world-building in this exciting universe to this day. I hope that definitive collections (even beyond the omnibuses) will be in print indefinitely to show the growing ambition of those on the cutting edge of this medium, and how an individual talent can flourish by riding the creative tide over decades. It's really worthy of any level of dissection and analysis. What a legacy for Matt Wagner as a creator.

[@JoeLovesComics]

Great video, thank you! I need to dive into Grendel someday but I knew nothing about it about before this.

[@thewolfmanhulk2927]

Thank you for this, I didn’t know about Grendel until now, thanks for bringing this to my attention and by extensions it’s influences in other comic counties. I appreciate that, preserving and having access for all is key, and anything that helps that is good in my view

[@Stormcastlecomics]

Amazing video. I love Grendal and often recommend him to others and it is great to see others enjoying it too.

[@knghtgraphixstudios5475]

Very good but the original backups of Grendel in Mage were in color, not black white and red. They were put together in a graphic novel devil by the deed in color, which I have both hard and soft cover signed by Matt Wagner. The impact with Wagner's black white and red anthologies was shown Over 10 to 15 years later. DC and Marvel started to do their own anthologies of antiheroes and villains using black white and red. Let's not forget also the Grendel series that was canceled before it was put on Netflix... hopefully one day that series will come out.

[@TevyaSmolka]

Great video man and honestly I had no idea Grendel teamed up with Batman because that’s really cool in my opinion.

[@rogerjuniorchabot]

Macan and Biukovic`s Tales are some of my favorite comics of all time.

[@tiredman4540]

Lovely memories! I really adore Matt Wagner's early art style, both precise and loose.

[@prillman]

This was an awesome video, thanks so much. When someone asks me who my favorite is, expecting me to say Batman or something, I say it has always been Grendel since discovering it in the back pages of Mage almost 40 years ago. I even had the plan to invite Matt Wagner to my wedding LOL, but I never did. To this day, I will buy anything with Matt's name on it, especially the new Dracula books. If only Netflix had the balls to release the show they filmed, the world would be a better place!

[@krisdarion1452]

This has been one of my favorite comics since I first found it during his first series

[@ERJones-fd6oh]

Found the story in the back pages of Mage and have enjoyed the journey this saga has taken.

[@simonrhoden7869]

Awesome video very well done maybe the best I've seen on grendel!

[@jasonism.]

I discovered Grendel about 10yrs ago. One of my all time favorites to this day. I'll pick up anything featuring Hunter Rose. The legacy stories are great, but the Rose stories are my favorite. Grendel Tales was really interesting too.

[@troygaspard6732]

Loved this comic, my friend Ron did the art for one of the covers around 1987.

[@deuceohnegative]

Love seeing Grendel content!

[@tremblingcolors]

I like the new Hunter by the Deed Master's Edition he did where he essentially just rewrote and redrew the whole original Hunter Rose story better than the original. I would usually hate the idea of an artist completely remaking his own art but in this case it really worked. He's in his own words learned the economy of words so no more walls of text.

[@ginofrancejr555]

Excellent video grendel is a masterpiece of creator own comics storytelling wager is so underrated as a creator and this and mage are his magnum opuses. P.S. cover mage please

[@loscaminantesperu]

By the way, the crossovers with Batman are canon in the Grendel continuity. The saga "Devil Quest", a collection of backup stories appeared originally in several issues of Grendel Tales, is the prelude of the second Batman/Grendel crossover, with the confrontation of Grendel Prime with the Dark Knight of Gotham City. Regards from Lima, Peru.

[@Comicbookherald]

Great video!!

[@paralleluniverses4615]

great video, man

[@davidoffice9922]

Grendel was awesome. I remember picking up warchild on a lunch break

[@geneawisea2708]

Comico - Loved Justice Machine!!

[@guy_badly]

Always loved Wagners storytelling and his art is SO clean despite the content.

[@johnwalsh4857]

for me Grendel's legacy is the best, the comic which brought me in the full series. Grendel was one of my main goto comics that I follow regularly in the 80s( the other gotos are Scout, American Flagg, Swamp thing, the Shadow, Groo, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Hellblazer, )

[@DejanOfRadic]

Im in my 50s, and stopped collecting comics around the time that digital colouring became the new medium. I haven't thought of Grendel in years....but i have allmof those early issues, and the ongoing series aa well. Time to dig out some old comics...

[@AndresAnLozadaLopez]

More people should know about Grendel

[@barriolimbas]

Incredible stories.

[@davidcauley9400]

Grendel is SO good.

[@patricktrisler2043]

I never could get into the Hunter Rose chapters, but I recently found vol. 1 of Grendel Tales in a bargain bin at a comic shop, and they are pretty good. A couple are great even.

[@egads3696]

I wish there were more hunter rose stories

[@johnwalsh4857]

yah I was collecting Grendel since #1 from Comico. since the late 80s. its one of my most fave comics. Yah I consider the Grendel as a idea. and yes Grendel may be evil , but I think its more like a anti hero, with a very anti vampire theme.

[@RaisiaFan1919]

I've been using Grendel as my profile pic forever. :)

[@EricLinstone]

Wasn't a comic book store back in the day that didn't have at least one Grendel poster.

[@SeanEShay]

Grendel was the book the guy at the comic shop told my parents not to let me read 😂😂😂 this was back in the early 90s when I started frequenting card shops to play weekend Magic tournaments

[@trustarscreamer]

I have two tattoos...one (and first) is hunter rose's mask

[@DarthReggie]

grendel is top tier comics

[@G-Blockster]

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[@jakepalermo9181]

I really hope that everything under Andrew Rev's name gets out of his greedy little paws. Couldn't have been easy for Wagner to get Grendel back.

[@JohnnySuperStar333]

GENNDEL Omnibus Vol 1 Hunter Rose 🌹

[@GenesisGunn]

Finally. This is what DC need to do

[@owensreviews625]

Vivat Grendel.

[@davidj.thompson]

I thought you'd be talking about the novel "Grendel" but I found this interesting. I thought his mask was remeniscent of the Spideman symbiote era. One question: did he or his later inerations have super powers or were they just extremely talented assassins/ninjas?

[@supercompooper]

Love grendel

[@johnwalsh4857]

Christine spar is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! latest Grendel

[@tremblingcolors]

There is a very different feel color wise with the Pander brothers art when you look at the original floppies and the Dark Horse collection of it. I much prefer the original floppies' pastel coloring because it fits the era and tone of the story much better than the darker more traditional digital recoloring in the collected edition.

[@VICTORZITOSS]

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[@manuellujan666]

Ok some one finally explained this to me

[@capsjukebox]

I always liked that the original Grendel was basically Batman if it had been Bruce that killed his own parents and became an assassin for shits and giggles.

[@charlesman8722]

It’s there a volume that’s technically unfinished?

[@booker9879]

He beat Batman in his own home.

[@jackofallclaws6672]

Does Grendel count as an Anti-Villain?

[@bufordhighwater9872]

It would really depend on which Grendel. Hunter Rose was without a doubt, a villain. No anti about it. He exhibits symptoms of both Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders (a high functioning sociopath). He believes that life is a game, the point of which is to dominate all those around for the sheer joy of it. He doesn't love anyone. He has a distaste for certain types of crimes, but not necessarily because he thinks they're immoral. Stacy was both a tragic villain and villain. Christine was a villain, but started off with good intentions. Brian Li-Sung was a tragic villain. Eppy Thatcher was a drug-addled anarchist, and probably an anti hero. Orion Assante was guilty of necessary evils. Various Grendels after Orion's rise and fall were portrayed as flawed heroes and villains. Grendel Prime was lawful neutral. A paladin slaved to his programming.

[@allenrubinstein3696]

I'm not sure what an "anti-villain" is, exactly. Grendel is the disembodied spirit of aggression, violence, righteousness, vengence, and the instinct for survival beyond all morality. It's the part of all of us who would like to have poured a vial of poison in Donald Trump's baby formula to prevent the havoc he's visited on our lives. Each individual soul is dead certain (in our fantasies) that we know what is best for the path of humanity, and conceives extreme action to force our species to fulfill its flourishing destiny. Then the consequences come, and nothing arrives as we predicted. Then we start again, still certain we know the answers. That's the cycle of doom and delusion Wagner illustrates over and over again. Really, just read every single chapter. The grand tapestry is so worth the investment.

[@ChoiceEnvironments]

My favorite anti-hero

[@digipeeper]

Nemesis

[@LouKiss]

Too bad Netflix is screwing us by shelving the COMPLETED series

[@TBelvy420]

Whaaaaaat?

[@prillman]

At one of his live shows, Kevin Smith said he was given a Blu-Ray of the episodes by Matt Wagner... knowing the chances of ever seeing it now, I've never been so jealous of another human being in my life!

[@MichaelWard]

Dude, You really need to lookup the meaning of "countless."

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

@@MichaelWard I figured if a series is still ongoing you can’t really put a final count on it. That’s what I love about Wagner and Grendel, I don’t think he’s ever going to run out of stories to tell

[@ricksanchezdeluniversoc1379]

Now that matt draper sleeps on comics this copycat comes great

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Maybe I'll take another page out of his book and stop talking about comics. I have a feeling I'd be getting fewer smug comments like this.

[@notanotherswordreviewchann4901]

Loved grendal. Would love to see him in the daredevil mcu

[@thomas-ol3ni]

I know I'm not the only one who wants a Grendel movie, but I'm afraid they'll ruin it.