My first thought was, Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri entered Pilot Season?  Oh, shit, why are the other creative teams even bothering?

The answer: because Kirkman has spread himself thin.  Between Walking Dead, Invincible, Haunt, Astounding Wolfman, and Image United, the man is busy.  And, while Invincible and Walking Dead have been consistently tight, I think the rest of his work has suffered.

Kirkman’s deal seems to be taking cliche comic ideas and writing them so fantastically that it seems fresh.  Invincible is, essentially, a really well told Superman story.  The Walking Dead is your average zombie flick elevated to a masterpiece about human interaction.  The Haunt is…uhhh…a book about redemption?  I stopped reading that one, so I don’t have a handle on it.  And Image United is a clusterfuck of fan service for people who loved the original Image titles.

Murderer is, essentially, a person has psychic powers and struggles to decide how best to use them.  Think Professor X, Charles Wallace Murray in A Wrinkle In TIme, Mel GIbson in What Women Want, etc.  This guy decides to use his powers to help grease the wheels of justice.  Not legally, of course.  That would be boring.

If this comic is intended to just be a sketch of what the eventual series is going to be, then it’s ok.  The writing is not precise, but the idea is good, and Kirkman has the ability to write anything he sets his mind to, when he has the time to set his mind to it.  I mean, the man made the Ultimate X-Men’s Onlsaught story interesting.  He’s either gifted or sould his soul early on in his career.   But that gift (or soul contract) isn’t apparent here.  This story is, at best, a mediocre preliminary draft of a story.

Silvestri’s art, on the other hand is great.  Rebecca seems to have an overly large forehead, but that seems to be a poor decision by her barber, not the artist who drew her.