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Vishal Rajput returns with Death Punk Comix LTD to the comic fold hot off the heels of his previous book The Bezerk Death Dealer. Deadline Miami follows in the same energetic style of The Berserk Death Dealer. This time Rajput has upped the ante with more larger than life characters and bright bold artwork bursting off the pages. Rajput also focuses on a muse for his comics and in Deadline Miami its a very strong female presence in the likeness of spicy Mexican/Canadian actress/director Gigi Saul Guerrero as Roxxy Maxmilian. Guerrero is a known for her work with Luchagore Productions with films such as Bestia, and El Gigante. She has featured shorts in ABC’s Of Death 2.5 and the Mexican horror anthology Mexican Barbaro. To top this all off she is also an associate designer/writer for Capcom.
Deadline Miami definitely has a strong female lead character and I commend Rajput for bringing forward a kick-ass woman hero who can dominate and take control of all situations that arise. Rajput himself is a very positive and influential role model always promoting wellness, confidence and a healthy image on social media. I understand Rajput has been planning to release a short film as his next project titled The Cyber Tyrant and it will be his love letter to such 80’s action/sci-fi films as The Terminator.
Rajput enlists the help of talented artist Ashlee Galloway once again who also did the art for Bezerk Death Dealer. Like with that comic Galloway has a very clean, animated and precise eye for detail. Her art is that of a very cool animated video game or show and very easy on the eyes. Don’t let this fool you because she still brings on a nice helping of splattering zombie heads, bodies, and gore galore. The pages are bright, energetic, fluorescent neon carnage filled with an array of ghoulish faced zombies and cretins who face our larger than life heroine Roxxy.
The story takes place in a futuristic wasteland ran by green puke faced zombies. Roxxy keeps the outlaw zombie marauders in place but actually works for a short and stubby zombie ringleader as a bounty hunter. The two get an offer which is too good to be true and Roxxy must face a number of adversaries and challenges. Lots of delectable female zombie nudity, cuss words, violence and cheesy tongue in cheek dialogue galore in Deadline Miami. We also get a little cameo from Tristan Risk and Ellie Church thrown in there. I guess it would be sexist and piggish of me to have hoped for a threesome between the three ladies on the pages but I’m going to say it anyways!
I love independent comics and Deathpunk Comix are one of those companies doing it right with high quality looking books and the will to succeed. Long gone are the days of DC and Marvel titles for me as they have translated to the big screen leaving the independents to take the reigns and have their time. Books like these are the type of material you hear about from friends or on smaller social media outlets. I have always been one to take the left-hand path when it came to my personal entertainment in comics, movies, and music. Deadline Miami is one of those books that will cater to a niche audience but I feel it also has the quality to achieve a cult/camp status as well.
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