Enter a Swampy Fever Dream in Exclusive Artwork from Si Spurrier and Vanesa Del Rey’s THE VOICE SAID KILL #1, Coming July 23rd from Image Comics

"Fargo meets Deliverance" as complex characters cross paths in the sweaty swamps of the Louisiana bayou in the new four-issue miniseries The Voice Said Kill from writer Si Spurrier (Coda, X-Men), artist Vanesa Del Rey (Black Widow, The Creeping Below), colorist John Starr (X-Men), letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (You’ll Do Bad Things), and designer Emma Price.

With the first issue lurking onto comic shop shelves and digital platforms on July 23rd, we're thrilled to exclusively reveal Vanesa Del Rey's stunning unlettered penciled artwork from The Voice Said Kill #1, along with exclusive quotes from Si Spurrier and Vanesa Del Rey that offer intriguing insights into the making of their unforgettable fever dream brimming with palpable, sweat-soaked pages of peril.

Below, you can check out our exclusive artwork reveal and quotes from Si and Vanesa, and we also have a look at preview pages from the first issue, the main cover art by Vanesa Del Rey, and the additional covers by Christian Ward and Tula Lotay. To learn more about The Voice Said Kill, be sure to visit:

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Si Spurrier: "It's never less than fascinating to peer behind the scenes of the artist's process. With a book like The Voice Said Kill that's especially true. This could so easily have been a straight-down-the-pipe crime thriller, with a plot that's tighter than a drum and a kaleidoscope of fascinating characters. That, alone, would have been enough. But the themes and ideas that bubble beneath—the depths of the main character's meditative mind, her anxieties and pleasures—all of these things are given an extra layer of visibility and resonance by Vanesa's work. Seeing pages arrive in my inbox in various states of completion has had me diving back into the scripts, adjusting lines, deleting whole conversations, recognizing that this transcendent sensory experience is so much more powerful when it's given space to breathe. It's the purest expression of the alchemy of comics: that magical collaboration that makes the whole so much greater than the sum of its parts. Story, words, art; not only working to support one another but also sending out fruiting bodies in opposite directions, covering a far broader spectrum of the reader's mind. It's additive in the truest sense."

Vanesa Del Rey: “I’ve lived near swampy areas most of my life. Starting with growing up in La Habana, Cuba. It’s an island in the Caribbean, surrounded by swampland. My grandma's house was near a bayou in the village of Playa Baracoa. In the United States, I lived in Miami, Florida, where we have the beautiful Everglades! It’s vast areas and there is more mix of fresh water and salt water. I’ve lived in Shreveport, Louisiana for some time. The bayou there is more intricate. Has dense vegetation, small meandering waterways.”

About THE VOICE SAID KILL #1 (on-sale 7/23):

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.

Exclusive Artwork Reveal:

The Voice Said Kill #1 Preview Pages:

Cover A by Vanesa R. Del Rey:

Cover B by Christian Ward:

Cover C by Tula Lotay: