What will Glory’s exploits to save her father be like? Is this an over-the-top action/crime story?

Dire, fast-paced chases across the Western United States with a clock. Glory is not the lady from the Resident Evil movies. She’s not a katana-wielding, back-flipping, ass-kicker. She’s a trucker, a mechanic and a race car driver. She’s just a grease monkey who was raised in Yuma, Arizona. She’s never shot anybody, never held a gun before, never been in a fight.

So many action heroes are completely unaffected by the action itself because they’re tough-as-nails ass-kickers types. That’s not Glory. She’s a regular girl who has a short amount of time to do something extraordinarily dangerous in order to save her father, and she’s never done anything like this before.

She’s a non-violent person, so even just lifting a gun is strange to her. She’s lived her life as a pacifist who enjoys being outdoors and racing cars and motorcycles. She’s not prepared for what’s coming.

Since Glory’s specialty is driving trucks and racing vehicles, I’m guessing a lot of the action will involve things like car chases. And until recently with books like All-New Ghost Rider and your own Tokyo Ghost, I never really considered how fun those types of sequences can be in comic book form.

Anything can be well done in comics. Action films are storyboarded prior to being filmed, and those storyboards need to have a clear, concise flow of action to them that informs the filmmakers on how to actually film that action. As somebody who has spent a lot of time as a storyboard artist, one of my goals in comic books was to open things up to allow for storyboarded action sequences. It was something we did in Tokyo Ghost and some of the other issues where we tried to capture that same energy.

Ultimately, it comes down to the artist, and Bengal loves drawing cars. When I hung out with him and Sean Murphy in Leeds a couple of years ago they had a big conversation about how they were fans of drawing cool looking cars. They’re uniquely positioned to do things like what we have planned for Death or Glory and what Sean did in Tokyo Ghost.

Not all artists like to draw cars. [Laughs] It really is a unique thing, and you’ve seen some of the art for Death or Glory. You look at the covers, the mechanic shop, and other scenes, and you can see the love Bengal dumps into them. That love is there because he likes to draw those things.

Death or Glory #1 has a huge chase sequence. So if you’re not in love with drawing that stuff, you probably won’t get a great reaction. [Laughs] What Bengal has done though is a very cinematic experience. I think Death or Glory #1 is very unique in the way that it reads because of his love of that stuff.

Death or Glory #1 cover C by James Harren and Moreno Dinisio

Another element he seems to have a knack and affinity for is female lead characters.

For sure. Anything he draws is gorgeous. His style is very appealing. His women are human, cute and realistic. They’re not cheesecake. If you look at the design of Glory, she’s a real person. She’s not a caricature. Her proportions and her face are beautiful but human, she’s very real.

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Who are some of the other characters you and Bengal will introduce us to?

Her ex-husband is an interesting character. He’s used the family convoy for illicit purposes, so he becomes an interesting foil. He’s our door to a lot of the crime elements that Glory finds herself surrounded by. He’s a guy who decided that he did want the big house, money and all of the material things that Glory didn’t care about. The way he got them was to use this pure and good thing, the convoy her father had started, to conduct some illegal business.

He’s in cahoots with a very frightening crime organization on the east coast. Through that organization, we’re going to meet a few very interesting assassins. There’s going to be a bounty that’s taken out on Glory once she’s pulled into this world, so we’ll have a lot of bounty hunters, too. We’ll also have the classic, corrupt sheriff who is after her.

The title, Death or Glory, refers to a lot of people who are given the task of bringing this women in or die trying. So the heightened reality stuff comes in the form of all the colorful and interesting people out to kill her. Tonally, this is definitely a high speed ’70s style crime caper.

I have 12 issues outlined. We’re doing some incredibly cool, visual stuff, and Bengal is producing the pages of his life, so we might want to extend some of that stuff out. There’s just no way to know, but I know it will be at least 12 issues right now, with a good potential for more.

This book will be a departure in a number of ways from what I have been doing, but ultimately the big thing here is we get to expose a large portion of our American audience to Bengal doing work that he co-owns. I’m dumping my whole ass into this, but really, it doesn’t matter what I write. If Bengal is drawing it, the book is going to be worth the price of admission. He’s a brilliant scientist of magic, and I think that’s obvious to anyone who checks out the preview art in this article.

Death or Glory #1 is scheduled for release on May 2 from Image Comics. Keep reading for a six-page preview of the issue!