![]() ![]() Kill Or Be Killed certainly has a juicy twist.īrubaker had originally conceived of the main character as a middle-aged man with a family who is run down and weary with life. ![]() I love everything Tarantino has put out recently.Īnd I especially love a vigilante story with a twist. I loved The Revenger’s Tragedy and elected to study revenge in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays specifically during university. ![]() I’ve always loved a good vigilante story. Kill Or Be Killed is a direct and purposeful response to the creators feeling as though there was no justice in the world. And we fantasise about taking justice into our own hands. ![]() We really freaking hate it when the justice system fails us.We hate when the bad guys get away with it.We hate seeing other good people being wronged.This must be the heart of the widespread appeal of such a timeless formula. It’s not (just) because I enjoy seeing people hunted down and mercilessly butchered. When it comes to comics and movies, I’m biased heavily in favour of revenge as a subject matter.ī-movies can thrill me if the plot is revenge.īut Kill Or Be Killed ( Amazon) by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser is far from B-movie material – it’s a five-star comic book by anyone’s standard.Īnd over the course of reading the first volume, and in the delightfully painful anticipation period of waiting for the second volume to arrive, I came to a conclusion as to why I love vigilante stories. I’ve been racking my brain, trying to discover why I love vigilante stories so much. ![]()
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