
"The Witchblade is a mystical gauntlet that is passed from female bearer to female bearer since the beginning of time," Sablik said. The bearer that comics readers are most familiar with is Sara Pezzini. But Top Cow teamed up with Gonzo Studios in Japan to create not one but two new chapters in the saga of the Witchblade, an original manga set in the not-too-distant future and an original anime set in the far future. "One of the cool things from our standpoint is that Marc Silvestri and Matt Hawkins, the CEO and President of our company, has said that both of these versions of the Witchblade are considered part of canon, meaning that the Witchblade you see in the anime exists in the history of the Witchblade, it's not an Elseworlds/What-if kind of storyline," Sablik said. More...