Debuting on March 30, the darkly comedic series takes place in a dystopian version of Scotland, six years after the titular superhero team went their separate ways. When the hero Claymore commits a crime, Scathach, the world’s most powerful one, asks the retired Kogarashi and Bavanshee to secretly pay him a visit. “But Claymore is very popular and famous… and all the kids want to be him when they grow up.”
The book marks the comic book debut of Cara Ellison, a Scottish video game critic-turned-narrative designer, whose work include Dishonored 2, Media Molecule’s Dreams, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. She promised the comic would have a lot of social commentary in the press release, explaining, “Inside every superhuman, there’s still a human. And the human needs to eat, pay the bills, have relationships, and send invoices. But what happens when superhumans realise that all the fragile systems of society and economy and politics are going to kill them, just like everyone else? What use is smashing someone through a window when the system that created them still exists?”
She said Cantirino “brings punk aesthetics and a scratchy horror vibe to the mood of ‘The Final Girls.’ Sally has a really good sense of how powerful women posture and how angry they can be.” Cantirino herself said, “‘The Final Girls’ is about a group of ex-work-for-hire superheroes navigating through the fall-out and harm caused by their superhero colleagues. It’s a comic about what abuse of power, reparative justice, and real change might look like.”
Like all comiXology Originals, “The Final Girls” will be available at no extra cost to subscribers of Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited. It will presumably by released in print by Dark Horse Comics at some point. You can read a preview of the book now at Screen Rant, and an interview with Ellison and Cantirino at CBR.
