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Contains a trailer forJill and the Killers # 1!Screen Rantis unrestrained to share an exclusive excerpt forJill and the Killers # 1fromOni Press , as well as an essay from comic creator Olivia Cuartero - Briggs . This teenage thriller that immingle true crime and play will have a twofold - sized unveiling yield . It will also kick off Oni Press ' God Almighty - owned projects for 2024 .
Jill and the Killershas the originative team of Olivia Cuartero - Briggs , Roberta Ingranata , Rebecca Nalty , and Haley Rose - Lyon . The first issue is slated to be liberate on January 31 , 2024 . Oni Press ' card for next yr also includesAkogun : Brutalizer of Gods , Cemetery Kids Do n’t Die , Invasive , andNight People .
Cuartero - Briggs ' previous whole caboodle includeMary Shelley Monster Hunter , while Ingranata has worked onWitchbladeandDoctor Whocomics . bring this team together is resulting in a dangerous newfangled game for titular heroine Jill Estrada .
Jill and the Killersis a Fun, New Story About Teen Struggles for the LGBTQ+ Comic Community
Each month ’s instalment of the Box Killers game features an " unsolved case " that is tailor - made to the aliveness of the player . However , when Jill joins in , her game seems all too real , with her hint apparently colligate to a serial of disappearances in her town . The thriller conform to Jill and her friends as they mould to solve these secret disappearance before one of them becomes the next victim .
Screen Rant has an sole preivew of the full first number of Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters from Oni Press ahead of its deluxe edition release !
Olivia Cuartero - Briggs , the series writer , has shared an essay withScreen RanttitledIdentity and Crushes in Jill and the Killerson LGBTQ+ representation :
I ’m not that old - unless you ’re talk to my kids . Then I ’m ancient - but even when I was growing up , there were n’t many mainstream depictions of queer nipper just … being . And I do n’t have in mind just being queer . I literally meanjust being .
Not to put too hunky-dory a period on it , but it seemed as though identifying as anything other than directly meant being very clearly recognizable . Speaking a certain way , interacting with certain groups , believing in sure thing , with whatever specific brand of non - straightness the someone ascribed to , being the central focal point of their person .
My reading back then was , of course , base entirely on dramatic depictions of ' gayness ' and not gay people themselves , but I commend the representation feeling disaffect . Like a club you either had to be all in with , or entirely out .
It was n’t until I was into my thirty that I remember look around and thinking , ' Hey , why did n’t I get to see any gay characters just … I do n’t know … live their lifetime ? ' Not in a boring , awaken - up - and - go - to - the - supermarket direction . That would be sappy . But in ways we tell stories about hetero characters . Sure , they wake up . Maybe they even go to the storage . But then , some crazy stuff hap that spurs an adventure that commute them everlastingly - the ' they ' just happen to not be straight .
So , when the folks over at Oni Press started to get excited about the idea forJill and the Killers , I assume a shot . I pitched a untested , badass , distaff jumper lead , who becomes a serial slayer hunter , all while struggling with grief , and an unreciprocated crush on her one - time best friend , who just happens to be … a skirt . And I mean that , guy wire . She just hap to be a chick . There ’s no coming out party - though , I love those ! - no fanfare , no ' Wait , Jill ’s gay ? Bwah ! ' nada , zip , zilch . Jill is just Jill . A seventeen - twelvemonth - old snarky skateboarder with a slight inferiority building complex , who just happens to - when she crushes - crushes on chicks . And you have sex what ? Oni Press did n’t bat an centre .
And this means something to me . It mean a whole spate , actually . Because , as it turned out , even though I never project myself in any of those ninety mainstream depiction of non - uncoiled people , and I do n’t belong to any cool gild . I ’m not exclusively straight either . I ’m not certain which ' box ' I devolve itnto , or if I hang into any at all . I ’m somewhat sure I ’m just Olivia doing whatever Olivia does . But I do cognize that if I had become the opportunity to experience a case like Jill when I was younger , that I would have produce to Olivia a whole mint sooner .
Jill and the Killers # 1fromOni Presswill be released on January 31 .
