Almost a quarter-century has passed since the powerful but philandering god Wotan seized the magic ring made of Rhinegold from the devious Alberich and was forced to relinquish it to the giants who labored to build Valhalla. The ring is a potent talisman, bringing power great enough to rule heaven and earth to its wearer, and Wotan is determined to go to any lengths to win it back. Now, Wotan's human son -- whom Wotan hopes might someday aide him in the retrieval of the ring -- is embroiled in a passionate battle for his very life and the hand of a woman he is forbidden by natural law to love! Can the Valkyrie Brunnhilde, herself a favored daughter of Wotan, save her tortured brother from his deadly fate, or will she face the wrath of the gods and her own angry father to save her brother from certain death?
"After the descent from the fairy tale world of The Rhinegold and the immersion into the `real' world and its seemingly unrelated problems of mortals, the slowly-building eroticism of the first book of The Valkyrie explodes into the subterfuge and betrayals of the second," Russel said. "It is a pivotal act of the entire drama, in which we begin to see how far reaching are the effects of the Niebelung's curse on the ring."
The Ring of the Niebelung: Valkyrie #1 is a full-color, 32-page introduction to this incredible three-issue series, on sale August 2 for $2.95.