Wynd: The Power of the Blood #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWynd: The Power of the Blood #2 is a significant chapter in one of the most celebrated queer-centered fantasy sagas in modern American comics — a multi-arc series that earned both Eisner and GLAAD Award nominations for its unflinching portrayal of a boy whose magical heritage functions as a layered metaphor for identity, otherness, and belonging. Arriving in January 2025, the issue continues the bi-monthly finale arc that brings the entire Wynd saga — spanning back to the original 2020 run — toward its conclusion, deepening the three-way conflict between humans, Faeriekind, and Vampyres while moving the full ensemble cast through its most consequential plot machinery yet. The issue's dual narrative thrust — a jailbreak led by Prince Yorik and Oakley and Thorn's arrival at the Academy — advances the series' consistent argument that young people navigating hostile systems can reshape the world around them, a thematic throughline Tynion IV has publicly tied to his own experience as an openly queer creator.
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The Wynd saga has an unusually long gestational history: writer James Tynion IV has stated he first conceived the world and its title character when he was sixteen years old, carrying the ideas through high school before eventually finding a creative partner in Greek artist Michael Dialynas, with whom he had already won a GLAAD Media Award on The Woods. The series was originally announced as a graphic novel trilogy under BOOM!'s BOOM! Box imprint for a November 2020 release, but the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the publisher to pivot to an oversized single-issue format as a way to provide more product to struggling retailers — each early issue ran more than forty pages. By the time The Power of the Blood launched in November 2024 as the concluding chapter, letterer AndWorld Design had taken over from original letterer Aditya Bidikar, and the project was being produced in collaboration with Tynion IV's own multimedia production house, Tiny Onion.
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- Released January 15, 2025 by BOOM! Studios; written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by Michael Dialynas, lettered by AndWorld Design.
- The second issue of Wynd: The Power of the Blood, the declared final arc of the multi-year Wynd saga, published on a bi-monthly schedule.
- Central plot threads: Prince Yorik leads a jailbreak mission to free Wynd from captivity, while Oakley and Thorn Cherrywood reach the Academy — described as the center of all knowledge in Esseriel — to locate a scholar pivotal to the ongoing war.
- The issue continues the series' core dramatic stakes established in #1: General Zedra and her Vampyre forces have discovered that Wynd's magical blood allows Vampyres to regrow their wings, making him a critical prisoner in the war between humans, Faeriekind, and Vampyres.
- The Bandaged Man — General Zedra's deceased brother, whose resurrection Zedra schemes toward throughout the arc — is among the characters whose shadow hangs over this issue's events.
- Main cover by series artist Michael Dialynas; variant covers by Morgan Beem (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches) and Jorge Corona (Transformers), plus a one-per-store virgin variant by Dialynas.
- The broader Wynd series has received both Eisner Award and GLAAD Media Award nominations; the first collected graphic novel (Wynd Book One: The Flight of the Prince) received the 2022 CAP-Stone Award for Best Publication for Teens (ages 13–17).
- The series is co-produced with Tiny Onion, James Tynion IV's own production house, reflecting his expanded role as an independent publisher alongside his work as a writer.
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