You can really feel the state of delight Brubaker, Phillips, and Breitweiser must have been in during the creation of this comic because you, the reader, will be delighted throughout.
Looking up the history of the comic for the purposes of this review, I saw Brubaker himself describes the series as: Death Wish meets Breaking Bad and 1970s The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s like a cross between Death Note and The Punisher with a dash of Peter Parker thrown in. It was a demon.ĭylan gets a second chance, but he needs to pay “rent” to this demon in the form of one bad person’s life per month. He fails his suicide attempt as though God were looking down on him that night. The world feels cold when Dylan is preoccupied with his problems. We’re treated to bursts of bold red when Dylan indulges in violence. That’s what he does with Dylan, just your average grad student who tries to kill himself after overhearing a conversation with his best friend/roommate and the girl he loves (and should be with) about what a pathetic pitiable loser he is. But he decided it would be a lot more relatable and fresh if he made the main character a teenager. Kill Or Be Killed certainly has a juicy twist.īrubaker had originally conceived of the main character as a middle-aged man with a family who is run down and weary with life. I love everything Tarantino has put out recently.Īnd I especially love a vigilante story with a twist. I loved The Revenger’s Tragedy and elected to study revenge in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays specifically during university. I’ve always loved a good vigilante story. Kill Or Be Killed is a direct and purposeful response to the creators feeling as though there was no justice in the world. And we fantasise about taking justice into our own hands.
It’s not (just) because I enjoy seeing people hunted down and mercilessly butchered. When it comes to comics and movies, I’m biased heavily in favour of revenge as a subject matter.ī-movies can thrill me if the plot is revenge.īut Kill Or Be Killed ( Amazon) by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser is far from B-movie material – it’s a five-star comic book by anyone’s standard.Īnd over the course of reading the first volume, and in the delightfully painful anticipation period of waiting for the second volume to arrive, I came to a conclusion as to why I love vigilante stories. I’ve been racking my brain, trying to discover why I love vigilante stories so much.
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