Image Comics Announces Trippy Murder Mystery ‘The Voice Said Kill’

Writer Si Spurrier (Coda, X-Men), artist Vanesa Del Rey (Black Widow, The Creeping Below), colourist John Starr (X-Men), letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (You’ll Do Bad Things), and designer Emma Price, are collaborating on new Image Comics series The Voice Said Kill, as originally announced on Newsarama.

Desribed as “Fargo meets Deliverance in this trippy fever-dream thriller” what more do you need to know?

Well, maybe a bit more about the set up, characters and plot? Read on, dear reader:

“In The Voice Said Kill, alligator poachers prowl the mudbug mire. A park ranger, heavily pregnant, raises a hateful mug of moonshine with a criminal matriarch. And one deadly sonuvabitch, out of his mind on shrooms and retribution, loads his rifle for the Human Hunt and screams down the stars.”

Speaking of this new trippy series, Spurrier stated:

“I’ve waited years to make this book. The story arrived in my brain fully formed—that never happens. This perfect, self-contained spiral of murder, moonshine and motherhood, steaming with Cajun chaos and swamp spice. What’s taken so long has been finding the right artist. In my view, the key power of the comic book medium lies in taking something outwardly familiar and infusing it with a sort of transcendent magic. In Vanesa, I’ve found the most exceptional expression of that transformative sorcery. What’s emerged is this visionary, impressionistic fever-dream, which elevates a hardboiled crime thriller into a psychedelic bayou epiphany, unlike anything I’ve ever written or read.

Del Rey added:

“The Voice Said Killasks the reader to step out of their comfort zone and into the darkness that lurks in the shadows of the Louisiana swamps and in the hearts of men,” added Del Rey. “I want this book to send you on a transcendental journey as if you were tripping on mushrooms in the real jungle. I can say that my own mind has been transformed, making this book possible. So please enjoy the trip, and don’t forget to call your mother.”

The Voice Said Kill #1 (of 4) is out on Wednesday, July 23rd from Image Comics with the following covers: