Kill All Immortals, Vol 1 by Zack Kaplan, Fico Ossio, Thiago Rocha & Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

One of the closest comics in feel to a popular action movie, tho that’s not necessarily a compliment coming from me. Kill All Immortals Vol 1 has a very specifically cinematic, Christopher-Nolan-filming-in-the-semi-dark vibe, and if that’s your thing, then you’re going to love this graphic novel, too.

The action starts with a cadre of Fortune 100 businessmen getting slaughtered by a group of very buff blond men who go by the name the Asvalds. Their victims can hardly believe that this family of Scandinavians would go to such lengths over mere business dealings, but the Asvalds are the original corporate raiders, happy to back up their reputation for brutality to their own advantage.

Well, all of the Asvalds except Frey, the glamorous daughter who’d rather watch fashion shows and do charitable work instead of getting involved in business and its attendant violence. Her latest boyfriend Owen Jabari is a journalist who’s covering her good works for a feature profile. But when they’re waylaid while driving in Kenya, Frey is forced into action to protect them both from ruthless mercenaries who aren’t afraid to hold them at gunpoint, or worse.

Ordinarily, Frey is happy to fly under the radar and toe her family’s line regarding power and discretion. But something snaps in her with this latest encounter. Bringing Owen with her, she travels to the Asvald’s Icelandic home to have a confrontation that will soon see her at loggerheads with her own family and the secrets that they’ve spent centuries protecting.

I love this cover, and think it perfectly captures what a badass Frey is. Her depiction and the ending twist were very much the highlights of this title for me. The rest of the story mostly treads the territory between formulaic and underbaked, with a few interesting fillips that show real potential. Overall, it is perfectly adequate entertainment that would have been bumped up significantly in quality if the action sequences weren’t so darned confusing. It honestly felt like the comic book equivalent of watching one of The Dark Knight trilogy movies: I know there’s fighting going on, but actually figuring out who’s hitting who and with what takes more effort than it should. And if you enjoyed those movies — I thought they were perfectly adequate — then you’ll like this book too.

I am definitely interested in seeing where the ending twist leads, and hope this creative team launch themselves into spectacular new territory after establishing the back story with this first volume. While I didn’t necessarily find Frey’s final reckoning with her family to have had the most organic outcome, I’d definitely give this title at least one more collection before deciding whether it is truly For Me.

Kill All Immortals, Vol 1 by Zack Kaplan, Fico Ossio, Thiago Rocha & Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou was published April 29 2025 by Dark Horse Books and is available from all good booksellers, including