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KILL TRAIN #1 review – Briskly paced and loaded with tense and dramatic scenes of nightmare fuel! (Cuartero-Briggs, Niosi, D’Angelo, Carey) Mad Cave Studios

Writer: Olivia Cuartero-Briggs
Artist: Martina Niosi 
Colorist: Simone D’Angelo
Letterer: Becca Carey

Thanks to Mad Cave Studios for the review copy!

A new action thriller from Mad Cave set some time in the future where the world population is out of control and desperate measures are taken to ensure the survival of the human race. When Vanessa, a single struggling writer and mom who is at her wits end is randomly caught on the government sanctioned kill train she ultimately decides to do whatever it takes necessary to survive! 

I love all the fun, original, and tension packed books Mad Cave has been putting out. They have been putting out some really top notch comics and they just keep coming! I love the premise behind this one and what makes it even scarier is the fact that we often contemplate ideas like this as a society. What would happen if suddenly we had run out resources across the globe? No more fresh water. No vegetables or any produce in general. What if sickness destroyed or wiped out or livestock? Mostly though, what is explored here, what if we were just so populated the government had to enact policies and drastic measures to reduce the population? I’d like to think it would never come to such a thing as a Kill Train but the idea that a problem like this is likely on the horizon conjures up enough anxiety in general without the addition of certain measures, laws, or policies. The writer here, Olivia Cuartero-Briggs, gives us her radical idea of what happens when a problem this large occurs and the common people who might be affected by it. It’s briskly paced and loaded with tense and dramatic scenes of nightmare fuel! Imagine being stuck on one of these trains? What would you do? You’ve got nothing left to lose but your life? It’s a grand idea with likely grand consequences! The creative team behind this one boldly pull off the carnage with tense and action packed panels highlighted by flashes of gory violence and extremely phobic use of space. The colors, lettering, and art blend perfectly to create this nightmarish scenario the writer has created. It works and it’s worth checking out when it hits shelves today! Don’t miss it!  

My rating 9/10 – Awesome!!

Kill Train #1 is now available.


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Corey Newell
Corey Newell
“Just a guy who loves comics, movies and stuff” ⁃ Independent blogger, dad, dork, comic nerd and pop culture lover hailing from Spencerport, NY

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