Writer and artist Szymon Kudrański is making a name for himself with the excellent books Something Epic and Blood Commandment. And now he’ll tackle a third solo title, No Man’s Land, a Cold War thriller hitting this September from Image Comics.
In the book, during the three months when you can walk from USA to Russia thanks to an ice bridge called the Ice Curtain, a body is discovered of a young woman, threatening the delicate balance between the two countries. It’s up to an FBI agent and a KGB agent to team up and solve the murder before the Cold War becomes a Hot War.
“I contacted multiple Russian and American governmental institutions. None responded,” Kudrański said via press release. “That led to deep research. I read more than a century’s worth of archival newspapers. The Cold War era stood out as the most active period—marked by disappearances, murders, and unsolved cases concentrated around the Diomede Islands and their villages. These events became partly an inspiration for the story.
“What makes this place truly unique is not just its geopolitical significance, but its geographic singularity. It is the only place on Earth where a 21-hour time difference runs directly across an ice bridge—earning the islands the names ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow.’
“The ice bridge between the Diomedes is one of those rare zones where legal jurisdiction remains undefined—a real-world Catch-22. This location was screaming for a story. And what could be more mysterious than the discovery of a body lying between the world’s two superpowers and rivals, on an ice bridge that no nation can definitively claim?”
No Man’s Land #1 hits stores on September 17. Check out the covers by Kudrański, and Kudrański and Brian Michael Bendis, and interior pages below, and click for larger versions.
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