Battle Chasers
Battle Chasers is an American fantasy comic book series by Joe Madureira, launched in April 1998. It was characterized by scheduling problems, with an average of about six months between issues, including a delay of 16 months for issue #7. Madureira produced a total of nine issues in four years (publishing two to three a year), a pace for which he was criticized, before leaving the comic industry to pursue a career as a video game designer. The cliffhanger ending of issue #9 was not resolved for over 20 years; issue #10 was originally scheduled for November 2001, put on indefinite hiatus with Madureira's exit from the industry, and returned only as abstract plans and concept drawings from 2017 to early 2023. Issue #10 was published in June 2023 and continued the plot after a two-page recap.
| Battle Chasers | |
|---|---|
Cover to Battle Chasers #1 by Joe Madureira | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | WildStorm, Image Comics |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | April 1998 – June 2023 |
| No. of issues | 12 (and one prelude issue) |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Joe Madureira Munier Sharrieff |
| Artist(s) | Adam Warren (back story in #6, 9) Ludo Lullabi (#10-12) |
| Penciller(s) | Joe Madureira |
| Inker(s) | Tom McWeeney (Prelude, #1–7) Jason Martin (inker) (#7–9) Vince Russel (Prelude) Scott Williams (#7, 8) Tim Townsend (#7) Trevor Scott (#8) Joe Madureira (#9) |
| Colorist(s) | Liquid Graphics |
Originally published by WildStorm under its Cliffhanger imprint (founded by Madureira with J. Scott Campbell and Humberto Ramos), the series moved to Image Comics in 2001.