David F. Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s award-winning Image Comics title Bitter Root will return next year with Bitter Root: The Next Movement.
Bitter Root tells the story of the Sangeryes, a dysfunctional, monster-hunting family battling supernatural forces during the 1920’s Harlem Renaissance. This new series will jump into the future, showing what the family is up to during the Civil Rights Movement.
The team originally announced a follow-up series set in the 1960s back in 2022. “I’m excited to return to what I believe is one of the most important books of our time,” Greene said in the press release.
Here’s how Image describes the new title:
In Bitter Root: The Next Movement, a lie built a House of Oppression. The bitter truth will burn it down. It is 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement. A group of activists have gone missing, and a new generation of the Sangerye family must face a menace far worse than anything their ancestors ever encountered. The monstrous jinoo—creatures born out of hate and racism—have evolved into a threat that few people are willing to acknowledge, and even fewer know how to fight.
The first issue will arrive in stores March 26.