At Newsarama, IDW Publishing have announced “The Kill Lock,” a six-issue creator-owned series written and illustrated by veteran “Transformers” artist Livio Ramondelli. Described as reminiscent of the classic Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier film The Defiant Ones, the book stars four convicted robots who have been “banished from their home world,” and are now “bound together by the Kill Lock – a programming link that means if one of them dies, they all will.”
Ramondelli told Newsarama, “‘The Kill Lock’ deals with this concept of putting different characters from different levels of society together and force them to care about one another. I was interested in the notion of, if you took a very kind of moral soldier and you paired him with a kind of psychopath, how would their dynamic be?” The official description of the book elaborates the four robots consist of “a soldier, an addict, a murderer, and a child,” who now “find themselves forced to protect each other while in search of a cure to survive.”
This is Ramondelli’s first writing project, nine years after entering the comics industry as a cover artist on IDW’s “Transformers” titles. “This was a series that I worked on for the last three years or so, kind of quietly,” he said. “I only showed a couple friends while I was working on ‘Transformers’ and a couple of other things, and it’s been really rewarding to work on. It’s the first original idea that I wrote and drew and I’m very thankful that it’s going to have a home at IDW.”
“The Kill Lock” begins this December.
