Media Release -- GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer Steve Orlando (VIRGIL, Midnighter) and artist Garry Brown (BLACK ROAD) will release CRUDE, VOL. 1—an emotional, bone-shattering account of murder, masculinity, and mayhem—this November from Image/Skybound.

Killers once feared Piotr Petrovich. Now, they've sent his son home to him in a body bag. Haunted by his failures, Piotr journeys across Russia to learn what type of man his son really was while hunting the bastards who killed him. And once Piotr finds them, they will learn to fear him once more…

CRUDE, VOL. 1 (Diamond code: SEP180081, ISBN: 978-1-5343-0861-9) hits comic book stores on Wednesday, November 21st and bookstores on Tuesday, November 27th. It can be preordered via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Indigo.

Select praise for CRUDE:

"Raw, intense and unequivocally tragic." —Doom Rocket

"The tension never ceases. You feel it in Orlando's biting dialogue on one hand, and in every wrinkle or cement crack Brown lays down with dark ink on the other." —Comicosity

"Filled with real depth and emotion." —Multiversity Comics

"Everyone on the team deserves a round of applause." —ComicBook.com