Tiny Onion and Image Comics have announced that the rabbit suit-wearing killer from Exquisite Corpses, Rascal Randy, will star in a five-issue spinoff series from writer Tyler Boss and artist Dylan Burnett. Colorist Jordie Bellaire and letterer Becca Carey round out the creative team.
Rascal Randy is one of a dozen assassins dispatched to the town of Oak Valley, Maine, where they compete in a deadly game of, well, trying to kill each other for their ultra-powerful and ultra-demented clients, in the pages of James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s Exquisite Corpses.
“From the moment I saw the full cast of killers for Exquisite Corpses, I, like most discerning readers, knew Randy would be the winner of the first season’s game,” said Boss. “Now while I still can’t say whether we’ve been proven correct or not, I can say the story Dylan and I have created for everyone’s favorite furry fiend is as sweet and cuddly as a porcupine.”
This new series reveals the origin of Rascal Randy. Set in Aurora Springs, New York, the story follows the events that transformed an overlooked animated character into one of the game’s deadliest competitors.
“Bullies, homework, crushes, solving a string of brutal and bizarre murders perpetrated by a weirdo in a giant rabbit costume… Ah, to be young again,” said Burnett.
Rascal Randy is the first of several announced spinoffs, joining Exquisite Corpses: Fox Mask Killer, Exquisite Corpses: Lone Gunman and the anthology one-shot Exquisite Corpses: Book of the Dead, alongside a second season of the main series and a feature film adaptation.
The first issue will have variant covers by Walsh, Boss, Javier Pulido, Riley Rossmo and Brett Bean.
The first issue will hop into stores July 8.