KILL MORE #1 – When You Like Your Crime Drama With A Higher Body Count
Written by Scott Bryan Wilson (DC’s Pennyworth series) and art by Max Alan Fuchs (Dynamite’s Altered Carbon series), the new series from IDW, Kill More, is a gruesome crime drama with subtle science fiction undertones.
Detective Aaron Aira is a homicide detective for Colonia PD, who is an increasingly jaded detective watching as the various colleagues decide to leave town, only exaggerating what was already an increasing wave of violence and crime. The city’s general population was dropping enough from those with enough money or options move elsewhere, but the homicide rate has also gone through the roof. He soon teams up with Detective Mwanawa Parker, from the missing persons department, and they begin to find out just how much worse their city’s situation is than even their own information shows.
This first issue is a very intensive and rich piece of exposition to set up the rest of the mini-series. They have a done a really good job of putting quite a lot of fragments of information into the background and in dialogue to help the reader piece together the intricate, near-future world that the story is set in. The only information presented directly to the reader is introducing the somewhat colourful killers that are cropping up in Colonia, in a bombastic Quentin Tarantino style, that lends a bit of levity to their utterly gruesome behaviour.
Max Fuch’s artwork has a really good realism to it, with a good use of angles, light and slight distortions, creating great atmosphere. Plus the higher details allows for less dialogue to explain what we are meant to see, which means the kills and corpses get pretty grizzly.
Overall, this essentially feels like the crime-drama version of Leaving Megalopolis, and just like it, Kill More has me honestly hooked.
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