BRZRKR Guide — Characters, Timeline & Reading Order

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Light Draws
Breath

Published 20 May 2026

Newest confirmed comic

In the Bronze Age, rogue scientists siphon material shed during B’s regeneration and create an independent life.

Written by Season Butler and China Miéville, with art by Alessio Avallone, BRZRKR: Light Draws Breath #1 extends the history of regeneration beyond B himself without treating the new life as a simple duplicate.

WritersSeason Butler
China MiévilleArtistAlessio Avallone

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Through the ages

One life, broken
across history.

Exact dates are rare. The sequence below uses only periods established by the published stories and marks uncertainty rather than inventing precision.

c. 80,000 years ago

Origin

The birth of Unute

A child born at the edge of prehistory becomes the weapon his people had asked the gods to send.

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Ancient world

Bloodline

Atlantis under siege

B serves as protector to a kingdom whose apparent order rests on violence and concealed rot.

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13th century

War

The armies of the Khan

B fights as an unmatched weapon in the expanding wars of Genghis Khan, then questions where his allegiance belongs.

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Present day

Main series

The government bargain

Black operations are exchanged for research into the origin—and possible end—of B’s immortality.

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The published stories

Three paths into
the life of B.

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Original series

The government program

B enters a modern bargain: fight the battles no one else can survive, and receive the truth about what he is.

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Wars beyond the present

Standalone histories move through Atlantis, ruined kingdoms, the frontier, the open sea, and Late Antiquity.

Open chronology ↗Elsewhere

A different immortal mystery

The Book of Elsewhere follows an impossible return from death and a force whose nature challenges B’s own.

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Principal figures

Lives shaped
around an immortal.

0001

Scarred immortal warrior B in worn dark armor

Immortal warriorB / UnuteHalf-mortal and half-god, B has crossed human history in search of the cause of his violence and a way to die.↗0002NeuroscientistDiana AhujaAssigned to examine B’s mind, Diana becomes the human relationship at the center of his modern search for answers.↗0003Archaeologist · cult lineageCaldwellAn expert who traces artifacts, technology, and a hidden tradition built around B across human history.↗0004Soldier · field partnerJim KeeverB’s handler and comrade, whose loyalty is tested when the government orders him to end B’s life.↗

Questions the story leaves behind

History that
keeps opening.

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L-04Lore

Known deaths and regenerations

What the story establishes about B’s repeated destruction, reconstruction, and apparent limits.

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Eighty thousand years

The periods that can be placed—and the many dates the canon deliberately leaves uncertain.

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The BRZRKR guide

Characters, lore, locations, events, objects, factions, and publications in one place.

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Adaptations

Film and anime were announced by Netflix.

Netflix announced a live-action feature starring and produced by Keanu Reeves, followed by an anime series with Reeves voicing B in English. As checked on August 26, 2026, Netflix has not announced a release date.

ANNOUNCEMENT DATE22 MAR 2021Primary source ↗

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