Interview: Serial Killer City Limits with Kill More's Scott Bryan Wilson

Colonia is a dying city that becomes infested with serial killers who know that the more bodies they pile up, the harder it'll be for the few remaining dedicated detectives to catch them—like a lawyer overwhelming an opponent with motions and paperwork. Aira and Parker are two detectives who team up to try and figure out what's going on, and bring these strange, brutal killers to justice as fast as they can. But these killers are like that arcade game with the moles and the mallets...

For the most part, our dying city plays its part as a constant character, but there are excursions to at least one location that has never been featured in any crime series—and it's a looong way away. 

 

Well, you have Lady Facesmasher, a bodybuilder who, you know, smashes faces...and The Sufferer, the serial killer who apologizes to you while he's killing you, and then weeps uncontrollably after...and Philosopher, who at least gives you a chance to get away from him and his ceremonial knife. The Obituary Machine doesn't get his time in the spotlight until a little later in the series, but think about him like this: What if, as a writer of obituaries, you decided to pick out a few victims, I mean, people you'd love to write about?

 

Max and I did the Altered Carbon: One Life, One Death OGN for Dynamite a couple of years ago. Before we'd even done one page on that, I was already pitching him to join forces for KILL MORE. His dynamic, kinetic, detail-heavy work is perfect for the book...but it's his wild imagination, especially when it comes to the demise of poor citizens of Colonia, that’s going to make him a comics superstar. No other artist's work can make you feel as dirty and uncomfortable as Max's—but still leave you begging for more. Our team is rounded out with colorist Valentina Briški, whose palette and skills bring out the details in Max's work and give each scene its own mood. For the series we have incredible variant covers by Goran Sudžuka—one of my all-time favorite artists—who brings a different breathtaking artistic perspective to the lunacy!

KILL MORE is a massive work akin to a big prestige TV series or a novel—huge characters with huge personalities all intertwined in 240 pages of plots and subplots. More killers are introduced! More bodies pile up! But as much as those two things are a constant, so is Parker and Aira's determination to see this thing through to the end.

Anyone who likes crime comics, horror comics, comics that ask more of them than just passive consumption. People who like watching a movie more than once to pick up on all the things they missed the first time. People who love rooting for the bad guys and supervillains. Fans of procedurals, thrillers, mysteries, and crime fiction of any sort. Read the first issue—I promise, you'll be hooked.

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Troy-Jeffrey Allen is the producer and co-host of PREVIEWSworld Weekly. His comics work includes MF DOOM: All Caps, Public Enemy's Apocalypse '91, Fight of the Century, the Harvey Award-nominated District Comics, and the Ringo Award-nominated Magic Bullet.