IDW Originals is gearing up to launch Kill More #1 this September, the first issue in a 10-issue thriller by Scott Bryan Wilson (Trve Kvlt, Pennyworth) and Max Alan Fuchs (Altered Carbon, Savage Tales). Described as a series where “killers rule the night,” the genre-bending comic is “an explosive pastiche of crime drama, sci-fi, visceral horror, and ‘howcatchem’ mystery that will keep readers guessing through 10 story-packed, ad-free issues.” Colors are by Valentina Briški, and Wilson is on letters. Fuchs along with Goran Sudžuka and Gabriel Hardman offer covers.
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The city of Colonia is suffering from total economic collapse, but worse than the unemployment and urban decay is the skyrocketing homicide rate. Most of the few cops left on the force think it’s just another symptom of the city’s decline, but one detective has a darker theory . . . that the most depraved killers in the country have all moved here to take advantage of the chaos. As he and his new partner dig deeper into their rapidly growing list of open cases, they’ll find themselves in the crosshairs of a growing group of maniacs who realize that the best way to stay ahead of the cops in a city full of killers . . . is to kill more. Nothing can prepare you for Lady Facesmasher, The Sufferer, The Obituary Machine, and worse. Lock your doors and journey into the mouth of madness!
Set in the futuristic yet almost completely broken city of Colonia, KILL MORE reveals the astonishingly unique killers who stalk its abandoned streets and reads like a who’s who of supervillains from a newly imagined universe: Lady Facesmasher, The Sufferer, Talking Head, and The Obituary Machine, to name just a few. When Aaron Aira, one of the city’s last homicide cops standing, decides to stay the course and tackle the violent surge head-on, he finds an unlikely partner in Mwanawa Parker, a beleaguered missing persons detective who’s desperate to give the families on her open cases list some measure of peace. Together, they have to connect dots alone and save lives using only their wits and willpower.
“I wrote Kill More because it’s the comic I most wanted to read, combining my love of police procedurals, theatrical dialogue, layered plotting . . . and unhinged mayhem,” Wilson said. “Kill More is eight years in the making! It starts wild and gets wilder. The intensity is propulsive, like a rocket, as new killers continue to pop up, create chaos, and elude the two detectives with the Sisyphean task of finding them all. The first issue is just the briefest hint at the insanity to come—and the thing about Kill More is that you can reread and pick up on things that can only be found on a second read, or a third, or a fourth.”
The series offers a unique concept with its art: “portrait” covers by artist Fuchs showcasing each of the killers. Readers also can enjoy an ad-free cover-to-cover story and a “painstakingly created in-universe backmatter revealing tantalizing hints about Colonia, its media and institutions, and the fate of humanity that led to it. The deep world-building is aided by Fuchs’ immersive, highly detailed, cinematic artwork.”
Wilson added, “What Max is doing on art should make every comics fan sit up and take notice. From everyday scenes of a city in decay, to a half-empty police precinct, to procedural inspections of murder victims, to face-melting violence—Max can do it all.”
“Readers of Kill More should lock your doors, secure your windows, and shelter in place,” Fuchs said. “I know what you think: You can handle this. You’ve read a book about a serial killer before, right? But Kill More isn’t about a serial killer—it’s about a never-ending parade of serial killers, where the floats are made of bones, decorated with entrails, and held together with partially crusted gore slurry. But don’t worry—there are still nearly half a dozen police detectives left in the world of Kill More, and they may actually solve one or two cases.”
