On Wednesday, February 11th, AHOY Comics is set to release BABS: The Black Road South #2 (of 6) – the second issue of the violently funny sword-and-sorcery epic from Garth Ennis—the award-winning writer of Hitman, The Punisher, Sara and Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, and co-creator of The Boys and Preacher—and acclaimed artist and frequent collaborator Jacen Burrows (Crossed, The Ribbon Queen).
After making waves last year with BABS—the fantasy adventure romp featuring the sharp-tongued and sharper-sworded barbarian Babs—Ennis, Burrows, and Syracuse-based publisher AHOY Comics are back for more carnage and comedy in BABS: THE BLACK ROAD SOUTH. The six-issue action comedy mini-series will find Babs and her partner-in-barbarism Izzy in a brand-new adventure after a win in a gladiator arena lands them an unexpected windfall—with even more unexpected consequences.
Here’s a look at the cover, the storyline, and
preview pages for this week’s release from AHOY Comics!
BABS: The Black Road South #2 (of 6)
“BABS: Some Real Pretty Shit Now”
Written by Garth Ennis
Art by Jacen Burrows
Colors by Andy Troy & Lee Loughridge
Letters by Rob Steen
“JEWEL-EYED TERROR”
Written by Stuart Moore
Illustrated by Tom Napolitano
“THE FAULTY SCYTHE”
Written by Bryce Ingman
Illustrated by Dan Schoeneck
Covers & Cover Artists:
Jacen Burrows w/ Andy Troy (Cover A)
On Sale: February 11, 2026
Seeking to recover a large sum of treasure, swordswoman Babs and her friend Izzy ride a depressed hired dragon along the Black Road South to Mordynn—a hazardous wasteland from which no one has ever returned. Except Babs, once. But she doesn’t like to talk about it!
About AHOY Comics:
AHOY Comics debuted in the fall of 2018 with the bold promise for readers to expect more from its line of comic book magazines, featuring comic book stories, poetry, prose fiction, and cartoons.
The independent, Syracuse-based company is the brainchild of Publisher Hart Seely, an award-winning reporter whose humor and satire has appeared in The New York Times and on National Public Radio. AHOY’s Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer is committed to publishing comics with a (dark) sense of humor with titles like the superhero parody THE WRONG EARTH, the religious satire HIGH HEAVEN, the sci fi spoof CAPTAIN GINGER, the time travel tales PLANET OF THE NERDS and BRONZE AGE BOOGIE, HASHTAG: DANGER and the anthology series EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF TERROR. This summer, the company will publish the highly anticipated SECOND COMING, the satirical comic book series by Mark Russell and Richard Pace in which Jesus Christ resumes His Holy Mission.