Publisher: Image Comics (January 23, 2018)
Softcover, 120 pages
Amazon Listing
Amazon Listing
Volume
3 collects issues 11 through 14 of the series and is the penultimate book for
Kill or Be Killed. There is a short blurb on the back cover from The Nerdist
which simply states, “addictive as hell”. And I have to agree. I devoured this
book and moved onto the next one immediately. I almost guarantee you that if
you pick up the first volume, the same will happen to you.
As
we remember from the previous book, a depressed twenty-something drunkenly
attempts suicide by jumping off his apartment building. Miraculously, he
survives only to be haunted by a demon that claims the hero owes payment for
his life. One person a month must be killed at the main character’s hands or
else the protagonist himself will die.
In
this volume we see the protagonist’s shift from reluctant killer to full-on
vigilante, whacking criminals without remorse. It transpires that one of the
people killed was the cousin of the local Russian mob boss, and that the crew
would never stop looking for the protagonist. So he makes the decision to go
right after their leaders instead.
Along
with that we discover that the demon - supposed demon - pushing the main
character forward to more deaths may somehow be an inherited family curse,
which plagued the protagonist’s father and half-brother, both of whom committed
suicide. Still the validity of the beast swings back and forth between dementia
and reality. With the ultimate truth yet to be discovered.
For more readings, try books by Rex Hurst.
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