Dylan Cross is your average twenty-something guy. He attends school in a big city, lives in a two bedroom apartment with his roommate, and lately, he's began sleeping with his roommate's girlfriend, Kira. Oh, and when he has time to spare, Dylan dresses up as a masked vigilante and kills random dudes, but only bad dudes. He makes sure they're bad before unloading a cartridge into their chest, therefore his plight isn't completely inhumane.
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the two creative minds from the Criminal series fame, continue their success of writing and illustrating another gripping comic (colors are by Elizabeth Breitweiser, who blends in nicely with the styles of the two men). Kill or Be Killed TP #1 is reminiscent of a present day Death Wish, with Dylan taking the legendary Charles Bronson's burden upon himself, and thus taking the city's trash out one scoundrel, pedophile, pimp and murderer at at time. He's just like you or me, I suppose, but with bigger balls, and less regard for his own safety. The guy is a superhero without superpowers, his one major asset being a deep internal mantra that may as well be the philosophy of Paddy Chayefsky's Howard Beale, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Kill or Be Killed places the reader in the shoes of its complex protagonist, who may or may not have been motivated and convinced to carry out these random murders by a dark, shadowy demon. It could, of course, also be his madness at work, presenting itself in form of a twisted evil entity. Whatever it may have been, one thing is for sure: this new series of Brubaker and Phillips' is sure to keep you glued to its engrossing story and visually rich illustrations.
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