Preview of Epic Kill #1 by Raffaele Ienco
Image Comics keeps the hits coming in May 2012 with Epic Kill #1 by Raffaele Ieno. This is a book that is heavily influenced by films that include The Matrix, The Fugitive, and Kill Bill. Ienco has written about the influences on Epic Kill at Multiversity Comics.
Nowadays, I consider myself more of a writer than an artist. The screenplay method of writing did have an influence on "Epic Kill" but mainly I threw it out the window and just started to draw and write at the same time with a semi-vague plot to aim for – and if I wrote myself into a corner I would simply write myself out of it, I thought. I wanted to have fun with the story. Thus I think I can say, I learned the rules of story and structure and then was able to bend them as much as I could without breaking them.
Some of my favorite movies are Jaws, Carrie and The Matrix. So when I was creating "Epic Kill" naturally some of these movies and others slipped into my thinking. Some I only realized after the fact. Like page two of issue one has an imaginary flying shark since I always wanted to do something with sharks. It’s not Jaws but I got to draw a shark and include it in the story.
The complete article can be found here. It’s a very interesting read.
Hitmen and mercenaries from around the globe are ordered by the President to bring down an eighteen-year-old super assassin named Song – but she’s going to turn the tables on them – and every kill is going to be epic!
Song has trained for years into adulthood to take revenge on the man responsible for her parents’ deaths – the man who has just been elected President!
Epic Kill #1 (Image Comics) by Raffaele Ienco is available on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at all comic shops for $2.99 US.
Here is a preview of Epic Kill #1 courtesy of Image Comics.
– The Comic Book Critic