REVIEW: 'Kill All Immortals' #2 by Zackary Kaplan, Fico Ossio, and Thiago Rocha

 

Kill All Immortals #2

Writer: Zack Kaplan

Artist: Fico Ossio, Thiago Rocha

Letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Release Date: August 14, 2024

Cover Price: $3.99

A Viking always answers the ruthless, vicious call of war in the name of their clan and their kin. Now, as immortal Viking Frey Asvald journeys to her family's mysterious Nordic homeland for ancient secrets, she must decide whether she will embrace her killer instincts to challenge her family. Succession meets John Wick... with immortal Vikings.

Score:

★★★★☆ (4/5)

QUICK REVIEW: 'Kill All Immortals' is a straightforward action thriller that unapologetically brings violence and gore to the page with great skill and panache. The issue picks up where the debut left off with Frey and Owen on the run trying to get some distance from Frey's immortal Viking family. Of course, the reach of the powerful family is long, and getting away won't be that easy. In between deadly encounters, Frey answers Owen's many questions about how and why they're immortal providing some background for readers. The good thing about this information dump is that it feels natural to reveal these things to the audience by way of Owen after the shocking meeting in the first issue. We'd want answers and we get some of them. There is so much going on but well designed and paced that it requires Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's sound effects to bring the noise. It's an action bonanza. 

Fico Ossio and Thiago Rocha continue to go to town with the action scenes. There are some quiet moments where Frey and Owen can relax for a moment and fill the reader in on the scope of their predicament but when things ramp up, Ossio's fight choreography and earthy bloody colors are captivating and magnetic. 

'Kill All Immortals' feels like the reader is strapped to a runaway freight train as the action comes fast and often. It's a throwback story that relies on primal survival leading from one stunning fight scene to another. It satisfies our baser instincts of fight or flight which makes this a not-so-guilty pleasure.