A metropolis on the sting of wreck. Detectives on the hunt for the killer behind a mass homicide spree. Colonia goes to want all the assistance it could possibly get in Scott Bryan Wilson and Max Alan Fuchs’ Kill Extra, a darkish new homicide thriller crime collection from IDW… with a spacebound twist, as io9 can solely reveal.
As you would possibly be capable to peg from the title, the futuristic, dilapidated metropolis of Colonia in Kill Extra is definitely none aside from a Mars colony, which provides an entire 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 folks right here?” and, maybe most crucially mysteriously of all “why are stated 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 stated in an announcement supplied 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—identical 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 matches the broader pointers of speculative fiction. We concern ourselves much less with an examination of scientific potentialities, and extra with enjoying out a drama of humanity’s future,” Fuchs added. “Our purpose is to depict a society leaning exhausting into the tendency for violent entropic collapse. Kill Extra shares these themes with the Mike Choose masterwork, Idiocracy. It will be hilarious, if not for all of the corpses.”
The pages above from the primary concern reveal Kill Extra’s colony setting; you may learn extra when the 10-part collection begins September 13.
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