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2. Kill or Be Killed
(Image Comics)
LOL, another Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips book. It’s almost as if they’re the best crime book team in the business or something.
Kill or Be Killed is still ongoing, but so far, it’s shaping up to be outright amazing and much better than most of their previous work (which I also love).
Plot time: Dylan is a twenty-something in New York, and he’s unhappy with his life. So he decides to jump off the roof. But after stepping off, he immediately regrets it. He begs and hopes to live, and he does. But later, something comes to collect. A demon shows up, and tells Dylan that he’s going to end his life, unless Dylan kills someone for him. Specifically, one person each month. Forever.
So Dylan decides to comply. He starts by murdering a pedophile and child rapist a friend told him about, and then decides to only kill bad people. As you can assume, it spirals from there, until Dylan is a fugitive on the run from a major police presence, struggling to meet his body count while doubting his own mental illness.
It is a-maze-ing. Read it.
