Kill or Be Killed, Issue #3 begins the day after Dylan kills his childhood friend's abusive older brother. He has to kill someone or else he'll die every month. That's the story of the series. He gets closer and closer to death - getting sick - as the month wears on, but he wonders if the whole encounter with the demon wasn't some bizarre hallucination. He lives with Kira, his best friend with whom he has a strained relationship.
This issue develops Kira and Kira's respective relationships with Dylan and her boyfriend, Mason. Stephen King is of course known as a horror writer, but he gets props from many readers and critics for his character studies. This is an excellent study of an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation, his relationships, and the people around him. The title didn't catch me right away how Fatale, Velvet, and The Fade Out did, but it caught me eventually. I'm a fan.
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