People love the Hitman games for the meticulous ways you can
take out a target. Wear an outrageous outfit, slide in between the shadows and
NPCs and perform an assassination with meticulous stealth. Yeaaah, there’s none
of that in the new comic from two dudes who worked on the last game featuring
Agent 47. It’s pretty much “insert sword into demon, dodge attack, shoot face
off, repeat,” all of it drawn by an artist famous for gory action.
Nothing about 13 Coins
is subtle. It’s drawn by Simon Bisley, the fan-favorite artist known for muscular, veiny, over-the-top work on Lobo, Judge Dredd and Danzig album covers. The
series’ covers sport an impressive technological trick, in that they reveal a
diorama-style depth-of-field when you drag your fingertip across the screen.
Written by Martin Brennan & Michael B. Jackson—who worked
on Hitman: Absolution—the
digital comic is essentially an occult horror action movie about a secret war
being waged on earth by demons in hiding and the descendants of angels. The first two issues of 13 Coins come free when you buy the
app for $1. So far, the three issues released by publisher Corinthian are
filled with plot points that you can see coming a mile away. But, oddly, that
frees up a lot of room for a reader’s lizard brain to soak up the lurid artwork
bleeding out of Bisley’s pen. There’s a weird cosmology layered into the
reluctant hero plot beats and part of me will keep on reading just to see how
messed up 13 Coins‘ versions of Heaven and Hell wind up being.
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