Bronze Faces #1: G: Shof Variant (One Per Store)
a cover of issue #1 of Bronze Faces by Boom! Studios
Issue description
Artist:
Alexandre Tefenkgi
Soho, London. Childhood friends Timi, Sango, and Gbonka reunite on the eve of the British Museum's historic purchase of the works of Timi's father, the seminal Nigerian artist Adewale Balogun. Timi has been invited as a 'guest of honor,' but what the Museum is heralding as a triumphant acquisition, the trio see as nothing short of brazen cultural theft. Emboldened by a night of drinking and shared outrage, they concoct a bold scheme? to steal back the artwork themselves! But when they come into possession of a document called 'the Register,' outlining dozens of colonial-era stolen artifacts, their sights turn even higher to the Benin Bronzes - the British Museum's cache of nearly 1,500 works of art stolen from the Kingdom of Benin.