A metropolis on the sting of break. Detectives on the hunt for the killer behind a mass homicide spree. Colonia goes to wish all the assistance it could possibly get in Scott Bryan Wilson and Max Alan Fuchs’ Kill Extra, a darkish new homicide thriller crime sequence from IDW… with a spacebound twist, as io9 can exclusively reveal.
As you would possibly be capable of peg from the title, the futuristic, dilapidated metropolis of Colonia in Kill Extra is definitely none apart from a Mars colony, which provides a complete different layer of thriller to the state of affairs. Much more so when the state of affairs is “oh god why is every part so tousled right here?” adopted by “why are there so many murderers killing individuals right here?” and, maybe most crucially mysteriously of all “why are mentioned murderers known as names like ‘Girl Facesmasher,’ ‘The Sufferer,’ ‘Speaking Head,’ and ‘The Obituary Machine’?”
“Kill Extra is firmly grounded as a police procedural/crime thriller, however its near-future setting offers it an air of grim inevitability,” Wilson mentioned in an announcement offered to io9. “With the collapse of society comes a glimmer of hope within the type of planetary colonization and a contemporary begin, however colonies are made of individuals, and Kill Extra envisions a future the place—similar to the current—sociopaths conceal in plain sight… and generally make no try to cover in any respect.”
Kill Extra follows an unlikely pairing in Colonia’s decaying civilization—Aaron Aira, one of many final homocide detectives in a colony plagued with killings, and Mwanawa Parker, a missings individuals detective craving to shut a few of her many circumstances, and provides the remaining residents of Colonia some semblence of peace.
“Kill Extra suits the broader pointers of speculative fiction. We concern ourselves much less with an examination of scientific potentialities, and extra with taking part in out a drama of humanity’s future,” Fuchs added. “Our aim is to depict a society leaning laborious into the tendency for violent entropic collapse. Kill Extra shares these themes with the Mike Choose masterwork, Idiocracy. It could be hilarious, if not for all of the corpses.”
The pages above from the primary challenge reveal Kill Extra’s colony setting; you possibly can learn extra when the 10-part sequence begins September 13.
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