Explore the Dark Story of Ex-Superheroes in THE FINAL GIRLS
If you’re looking for a dark superhero comic, you might want to consider the comiXology Original The Final Girls. Serving as the comic debut for Cara Ellison, the five-part series shows a dark side of a world with superheroes who are still also human. The Final Girls is illustrated by Sally Cantirino (I Walk with Monsters), colored by Gab Contreras, and lettered by Joamette Gil.
Part dark comedic superhero drama, part dystopian political thriller, The Final Girls is set six years after the hero collective the Scottish tabloids named “The Final Girls” —Kogarashi, Bavanshee, Selkie, and Ash—left civil service and disappeared into the less fraught alleyways of Scotland. When Scathach, the world's most powerful working hero, asks her retired peers for help, they secretly agree to deal out punishment on another hero in the public eye. When the weapon of publicity is wielded, it threatens to kick up all of their personal traumas, past and present. What does justice look like when violence isn't enough?
There’s some real potential here for an interesting story. Sharing her excitement for the series, Ellison said:
Inside every superhuman, there’s still a human. And the human needs to eat, pay the bills, have relationships, and send invoices. But what happens when superhumans realise that all the fragile systems of society and economy and politics are going to kill them, just like everyone else? What use is smashing someone through a window when the system that created them still exists?
Sally Cantirino brings punk aesthetics and a scratchy horror vibe to the mood of The Final Girls. Sally has a really good sense of how powerful women posture and how angry they can be.
Cantarino added:
The Final Girls is about a group of ex-work-for-hire superheroes navigating through the fall-out and harm caused by their superhero colleagues. It’s a comic about what abuse of power, reparative justice, and real change might look like.
All five issues of The Final Girls are available from comiXology (affiliate link).
