Source: pastemagazine.com
6. Dylan Cross
(Kill or be Killed, Image Comics)
I have talked about Kill or be Killed a lot. I mean, A LOT. It must be really, really good or something.
Ed Brubaker. Sean Phillips. What more do I have to say? What’s that? I apparently have to say more than literally just that? Fiiiiine.
Dylan Cross wanted to kill himself. He wanted to, right up until the moment he stepped off the roof. And then he wanted to live. When he survived, it looked like a miracle from God. But it turned out that it had its origin a little more southward. So when a demon showed up and gave him an ultimatum, it was a less-than-welcome surprise. That ultimatum? Dylan had to kill one person for every month he wanted to stay alive. Fail to kill at least one person a month, and he’d drop dead himself.
But Dylan wasn’t a monster. Well, not yet. So he decided to only kill people who deserved it. But at a certain point, was he doing it to survive? Or because he wanted to?
