Kill Your Boyfriend
| Kill Your Boyfriend | |
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Cover of Kill Your Boyfriend one-shot. Art by Philip Bond. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | Romance, Black comedy |
| Publication date | June 1995 |
| Number of issues | 1 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Grant Morrison |
| Penciller(s) | Philip Bond |
| Inker(s) |
Philip Bond D'Israeli |
| Letterer(s) | Ellie De Ville |
| Creator(s) |
Grant Morrison Philip Bond D'Israeli |
| Editor(s) |
Helen Craven Jennifer Lee Tim Pilcher Art Young |
Kill Your Boyfriend is the title of a comic book one-shot written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Philip Bond and D'Israeli for DC Comics Vertigo imprint in June 1995.
Publication history
Originally published as part of the Vertigo Voices series of one-shots in 1995, Kill Your Boyfriend was reprinted in the prestige format (ISBN 156389453X) in 1998[1] with an afterword from Morrison and a paper fortune teller. A third edition was published in October 2008 .[2]
Synopsis
The story is a darkly comic satire of British youth culture (with hints towards such films as Natural Born Killers[3]) which revolves round a bookish middle class schoolgirl, who has a bland unexciting life until she meets a strange young boy who convinces her to kill her boyfriend. They then go on the run together for a series of anarchic adventures across Britain.
Meeting up with a group of travellers in a double-decker bus, the pair indulge in more crime and sexual experimentation before making their way to Blackpool to meet their final fate.
Morrison notes in the afterword of the second edition that the story is inspired in part by the myth of Dionysus.
Reception
In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Boy as #10 on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics".[4]
Notes
- ↑ Julian Darius' "Sequart Organization": Grant Morrison - Kill Your Boyfriend. Accessed May 29, 2008
- ↑ "Kill Your Boyfriend" third printing at DC Comics.com
- ↑ The Savage Critic: "My Life is Choked with Comics #9 - Kill Your Boyfriend & Girl #1-3," September 14, 2007. Accessed May 29, 2008
- ↑ Wheeler, Andrew (2013-02-14). "ComicsAlliance Presents The 50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics". ComicsAlliance. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
References
- "Kill Your Boyfriend" at the Grand Comics Database
- "Kill Your Boyfriend" at the Comic Book DB
External links
- Before All Star - Grant Morrison on Kill Your Boyfriend, Newsarama, November 6, 2008
Reviews
- Review of Kill Your Boyfriend by Matt Fraction, Art Bomb
- Review of Kill Your Boyfriend at KvltSite