Kill or Killed does have a streak of delicious black humor to it, though, too. Reminds me (only because of the theme of suicide and demons) of Jason Shiga's Demon, but that one is played strictly for horror/laughs. I cannot wait to read on as the train wreck steadily and inexorably continues to happen in slow motion before my eyes. The tone is also different than the even grittier Criminal series. These two comics are differently awesome, I would say. The tone is very different, much grittier, than The Fade Out, this team's most recent triumph, so it takes a bit of getting used to, though in that comics noir, too, classic Hollywood historical fiction, there were also a collection of ne'er-do-wells, screw-ups. Or maybe it's not a demon, maybe Dylan is delusional, or maybe he's just a vigilante who dreams up the demon? We'll see. And then he tries to end his life over his agony about her by throwing himself out a window, landing on the hood of a car, but it seems he is given another chance by a demon who says Dylan can stay alive if he just kills some deserving jerk every month of his life hereafter. Not interested in this guy? I know what you mean: Loser. It's a comic about a schleppy guy, Dylan, a sometime, half-assed grad student whose life is not going anywhere, who secretly loves his best friend, a woman who is dating his roommate. I read all of this in single digital issues I actually bought, one by one, which is very rare for me but anything by Brubaker and Phillips and I drop everything.
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