The Black Company: When Your New Corporate Overlord is a Demonic Sorceress
Before Warhammer Fantasy had even left its infancy, author Glen Cook took a plunge into a completely different kind of fantasy: one that traded righteous knights and glorious kingdoms for a cynical, heavily armed family of mercenaries just trying to survive the night.
This week on Acceptable Losses, Dk and Kirioth dig down into the very roots of the grimdark genre to cover the first three chapters of the 1984 classic, The Black Company.
We follow the annals of Croaker, the Company’s physician and historian, as the brotherhood navigates a world where law and order belong to the highest bidder and the line between "good" and "evil" doesn't exist.
Comments (23)
More of this series please!
Great episode, will there be an episode on the trench crusade carcass front when it comes out?
So glad they did this episode.
You know, when MandaloreGaming said that the story of the Myth games was inspired by these books, I did not expect it to mean: "almost word for word on the premise"
Dang, you guy have convinced me to check out the series!
That was the most posh I have ever heard from DK!!!
Ive been wanting you guys to do this series forever! Im planning on making a Black Company themed Trench + Crusade Army
when i saw the announcement my eyes bugged out. I ADORE this series. Now i need to re-read it all again...
Alright ya talked me into buying the first book and giving them a read.
The OG. I remember reading this for the first time in college, and my god it was worth it.
I can only think of the humor of the Departed and Jack Nicholsons "she fell funny"
Interesting fact iirc, Raker was the first part seen publicly as a short story and slightly reworked for the novel
Glen cooked, loved reading this series as a teen Maybe, just maybe, there will be a Dread Empire episode some day ;)
CONSIDER ME CROAKED
also one eye my beloved
So when you say first three chapters does that mean the first three books? What's in the first omnibus I mean?
no they literally mean first 3 chapters for the first book lmao
So far I've been enjoying these. It really gets me to know other media's out there.
Thanks all for helping me with a long slow day at work 🎉🎉🎉
Man, it has bin about 10 years since i last read those books.
Omgomgomgomgomg my favorite series EVER. Can't wait to listen to it and realize that after 5 reread I still don't know anything about it
Black mf Company baby, let's go!
Black Company, leeeeeets fucking go