''Iron Empires'' is a

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comic series written and painted by the American artist

Christopher Moeller Christopher Moeller (born May 1, 1963) is an American writer and painter, specializing in fully painted graphic novels. Moeller's signature creation is the '' Iron Empires'' science-fiction universe, comprising three fully painted graphic novels ' ...

. It has three parts: ''Shadow Empires: Faith Conquers'', first published as a limited series by

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in 1994, ''

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'', published by

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in 1998, and ''Iron Empires: Void'', published by Forged Lord Comics in 2013. Dark Horse reissued the comics as graphic novels in 2004, under the titles ''Iron Empires Volume 1: Faith Conquers'' and ''Iron Empires Volume 2: Sheva's War''. The graphic-novel version of ''Faith Conquers'' also includes a painted version of the three part story ''The Passage'', previously published in black and white as part of the anthology series ''

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''. The comics formed the inspiration for the

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'' designed by Luke Crane and published by The Burning Wheel in 2006. In 2013 Moeller ran a successful kickstarter for a third volume entitled ''Iron Empires: Void'' through his own publisher Forged Lord Comics (created by Luke Crane, Chris Allingham, Thor Olavsrud and Moeller himself).

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