Writer Si Spurrier is teaming up with artist Vanesa Del Rey, colorist John Starr, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou for a psychedelic new crime comic from Image titled The Voice Said Kill.
And when I say psychedelic, I mean it, as The Voice Said Kill features a totally out there art style that channels the shroom-fueled rampage of its main character into colorful, striking art that looks completely unique.
Described as « Fargo meets Deliverance, » The Voice Said Kill is a four-issue crime story set in the Louisiana bayou, with a story that pits a guy who is tripping out of his mind on psychedelic mushrooms against a moonshine running crime family, with a pregnant park ranger caught in the middle.
« Fargo meets Deliverance in a sweaty swamp-thriller from VANESA DEL REY (Black Widow, The Creeping Below) and SI SPURRIER (Coda, X-Men), » reads Image’s official solicitation text for The Voice Said Kill #1. « The wet heat of the Louisiana bayou. Alligator poachers prowl the mudbug mire. A park ranger, heavily pregnant, raises a hateful mug of moonshine with a criminal matriarch. And one deadly sonuvabitch, out of his mind on shrooms and retribution, loads his rifle for the Human Hunt and screams down the stars. Presenting 4 issues of fever-dream cajun crime. »
Writer Si Spurrier says of The Voice Said Kill, « this is a crime thriller tighter than a drumskin. » Spurrier is of course known for his work on the X-Men franchise, where he explored strange, psychic concepts of mutant religion across multiple titles in the Krakoa era, so he’s no stranger to these kinds of mind-bending ideas.
And judging by Vanesa Del Rey and John Starr’s art, they’re the perfect collaborators to take Spurrier’s ideas a step further into an even more conceptual realm of comic storytelling
The Voice Said Kill #1 goes on sale July 23.
The Voice Said Kill #2 (of 4)
Series: The Voice Said Kill
Arriving: August 27, 2025
Lunar Code: 0625IM403
Page Count: 32Buy
Cover price: $4.99
A dumpster-corpse out back of a rez casino…a gaggle of tourists with guns in their fannypacks…and an alligator-skin hipflask…
The wind is rising in the bayou. Overstretched park ranger Marie has stumbled into a whole mess of trouble, and before the night’s through, there’ll be blood in the still waters of the swamp.
The hardboiled cajun crime thriller continues in this supersized issue.
Arriving: September 24, 2025
Lunar Code: 0725IM421
Page Count: 32
Cover price: $4.99Horror among thieves.
Gunsmoke over the mire.
Reptile tragedy.
And a swampland miracle.
The hardboiled cajun crime thriller continues in this supersized issue.Writer
Simon Spurrier
Artist
Vanesa R. Del Rey
Cover A
Vanesa R. Del Rey
Cover B
Matias Bergara
The Voice Said Kill #4 (of 4)
Series: The Voice Said Kill
Arriving: October 29, 2025
Lunar Code: 0825IM0440
Page Count: 32Buy
Cover price: $4.99
Human blood runs in the alligator abattoir.
The nerve-shredding, gun-thundering, heart-wrenching conclusion to the Cajun crime thriller.
