Jimmy Palmiotti, Dave Johnson and Juan Santacruz are returning to their sugar-coated world of corporate conspiracies with Pop Kill: Big Candy, a new four-issue miniseries launching from Mad Cave Studios in October.
They’ll be joined by colorist Vittorio Astone and letterer Sean Konot for a story set eight months after the events of Pop Kill, which pitted rival soft drink empires against one another in a violent satire of corporate culture. In Pop Kill: Big Candy, the focus shifts from soda to candy, as Jon Pyle and Dina Deluxe find themselves caught in another deadly conspiracy.
“Pop Kill: Big Candy doesn’t just escalate—it detonates, erupting into a sugar-fueled riot of adult chaos that makes our first run look like a warm-up,” Palmiotti said. “Mad Cave gave us one directive: Go wild. So we ripped off the brakes and hurled Jon Pyle and Dina Deluxe into a world where sugar is worth more than gold.”
According to Mad Cave, the pair survived the chaos of the original series, but their relationship is strained eight months later. When Dina develops a revolutionary sugar substitute capable of disrupting the candy industry, a secret consortium of powerful candy companies marks them for death, setting off what the publisher is calling the beginning of the “Sugar Wars.”
The debut issue will feature eight covers, including artwork by J.G. Jones, Amanda Conner, Ben Caldwell and Brian Stelfreeze.
Pop Kill: Big Candy #1 arrives in comic shops on Oct. 7. Mad Cave will be exhibiting at San Diego Comic-Con next week at Booth #2806, where attendees can get a look at its upcoming slate of titles, including The Last Starfighter.