Witchblade

Witchblade
Front cover to Witchblade Vol. 1 (Witch Hunt) TPB (Feb. 2008).
Publication information
Publisher	Top Cow Productions
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	November 1995 – October 2015
Number of issues	185
Main character(s)	Sara Pezzini
Creative team
Writer(s)	David Wohl Marc Silvestri Brian Haberlin Ron Marz
Artist(s)	Michael Turner Marc Silvestri Stjepan Sejic
Creator(s)	Marc Silvestri David Wohl Brian Haberlin Michael Turner

Witchblade was a comic book series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint of Image Comics, which ran from November 1995 to October 2015. The series was created by Top Cow founder and owner Marc Silvestri, editor David Wohl, writer Brian Haberlin, and artist Michael Turner.

The Witchblade comic was adapted into a television series in 2001, as well as an anime, a manga and a novel in 2006. A feature film based on the comic, titled The Witchblade, was announced for a 2009 release, but was never produced. A second Witchblade television series was announced for development in January 2017.

The series follows Sara Pezzini, a NYPD homicide detective who comes into possession of the Witchblade, a supernatural, sentient gauntlet that bonds with a female host and provides her with a variety of powers in order to fight supernatural evil. Sara struggles to hone the powers of the Witchblade and fend off those with a nefarious interest in it, such as entrepreneur Kenneth Irons and his bodyguard Ian Nottingham.

Following a pilot film in August 2000, the cable network TNT premiered a television series based on the comic book series which ran for two seasons from June 12, 2001 to August 26, 2002. The series was directed by Ralph Hemecker, written by Marc Silvestri and J.D. Zeik, and starred Yancy Butler as Sara Pezzini. Although critically acclaimed and popular with audiences, the series was canceled in September 2002.Warner Home Video released Witchblade: The Complete Series — a seven-disc collectors set including the original made-for-TV movie, all 23 episodes of the series, and special features — on DVD on July 29, 2008.