Review: ‘Die! Die! Die!’ #10 Is An Unashamedly Foul-Mouthed, Irreverent And Thrilling Read

Robert Kirkman, Scott M Gimple and Chris Burnham’s Die! Die! Die! Is back again this week from Skybound/Image Comics with it’s specific brand of over-the-top violence and family dynamics like no other comic book out there on the stands today. And while it continues the family saga of triplets brought up to all work someway or another in the field of international espionage and undercover assassinations, this new issue feels like something of a good jump-on point for any new readers who’ve heard good things about this series. Hey, you have all read our previous coverage of this book, haven’t you? 

Die! Die! Die! #10 is a comic book that you really can judge by its cover, and the opening pages do a great job of acclimatising any new readers to the kind of world Kirkman, Gimple and Burnham have cooked up over the past 9 issue of this James Bond-on-steroids kinda comic. Male abortions, underhanded dirty black opps run by a shadow cabal of senators controlling world events from behind the curtain, and an over-sexed, calculating, foul-mouthed antithesis of Bond’s more buttoned-up and pedigreed M. All this while casting a satirical eye across the contemporary landscape of conservative America. But, hey, what can we expect when us Brits sent you all our convicts and Puritans there centuries ago, right? All in all, then, this is a great action-packed summer blockbuster of a book with a great cinematic scope and globe-trotting aspect to it all. A heady blend of the exotic, erotic and ultra-violent. Quentin Tarantino meets Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli. 

What makes this a good starting point is the coming together again of several characters – although that did get started last issue – as the noseless Paul has been reunited with his girlfriend and now his estranged brother, Paul, as well as his partner, Nate, with their joint goal being to find their other brother and take him down. Or out. Except Paul’s takes this moment to announce his retirement. Or maybe he doesn’t? All this, and Senator Barnaby Smith escaped from right under the cabal’s nose from a high security cell, thereby setting up the dynamics for this next run of the series and the next chapter in this intriguing spy saga.  
We get some quieter, more personal moments too, such as Nate returning home to his daughter, a new Hit-Girl in the making it would seem; a perfect example of the dark humour running through this series. I imagine this is either a book you’ll love or hate. As you can tell, I love it and can only imagine how this would look if it ever ended up on the big screen, as I imagine it will one day. Or as a TV series. 

By the end of this issue we’ve pretty much caught with most of the main characters in this multi-layered espionage thriller, with plenty of balls-to-the-wall action thrown in too, with things only looking worse by the end for our heroes. Die! Die! Die! Continues to thrill this reader as well as bring a smile to my face too, each and every issue. Foul-mouthed, irreverent and thrilling! What more could you ask for from a contemporary comic book?