Murder Drones: Get an Exclusive First Look at the Graphic Novel Adaptation

Earlier this summer, IGN broke the quality that the wildly fashionable web bid Murder Drones is making the leap to comics, with Oni Press releasing a graphic caller adaptation of the archetypal season. Now that the Kickstarter run for the graphic caller has launched, we tin debut caller screen artwork of the assorted editions featured successful the campaign.

Check retired the slideshow assemblage beneath for a person look astatine the Murder Drones graphic novel:

Murder Drones is simply a collaboration betwixt Oni and animation workplace Glitch Productions. The graphic caller is written by Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel United) and drawn by Jo Mi-Gyeong (Eve, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance). The Kickstarter run features an exclusive hardcover variation with screen creation by Alessio Zonno (I Heart Skullcrusher!) and an exclusive softcover variation with screen creation by Mi-Gyeong.

Backers volition find plentifulness of exclusive goodies successful the Kickstarter campaign, including a bid of variant covers that wage homage to classical fearfulness films similar Carrie, Nightmare connected Elm Street, and The Thing. There are besides respective higher-tier bundles worthy pointing out:

The "Disassembly Drone" acceptable includes a Camp 98.7 Trucker Hat, a Murder Drones #1 variant printed connected brushed aluminum, an 18"x24" people that recreates Uzi's conspiracy mentation diagram from Episode 3, and an exclusive screen by Andy Duggan (Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories). The "Absolute Solver" acceptable features a “Cabin Fever” scented candle, a Murder Drones enactment jacket, a afloat acceptable of comic covers, an 8"x10" black-and-white quality sketch by Brenda Hickey (My Little Pony), and an exclusive screen by Moss Lawton (Star Trek: Prodigy).

But for the truly hardcore fans, there's the highly constricted "High Temp" set. This acceptable comes with a VHS portion of Episode 1, a customized variant screen featuring the backer's archetypal name, a 1:1 lithograph people of Mi-Gyeong's artwork, and exclusive screen creation by Andy Duggan (Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories).

“Murder Drones is simply a heartwarming 'destroy each humans' communicative that combines jaw-dropping creation with an immersive mythology, a hefty dose of hilarious characters, action, horror, elephantine laser guns, and tons of robots being destroyed,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson successful a statement. “It was perfectly imperative for america to find a writer and creator who could bring the show’s transgressive storytelling to the comics mean with verve and style. Murder Drones fans volition beryllium blown distant by what Wyatt Kennedy and Jo Mi-Gyeong are doing with Murder Drones: The Official Graphic Novel. And comic fans who person yet to ticker the show, but who emotion Invader Zim, Rick and Morty and Cult of the Lamb, volition observe a darkly fascinating and addictive story, with loads of snark and suspense and characters that volition unrecorded connected successful your head.”

The Kickstarter run for Murder Drones is unrecorded now.

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