Kill Your Boyfriend is the title of a comic book one-shot written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Philip Bond and D'Israeli for DC Comics Vertigo imprint in June 1995.
Publication history Originally published as part of the Vertigo Voices series of one-shots in 1995, Kill Your Boyfriend was reprinted in the prestige format () in 1998Julian Darius' "Sequart Organization": Grant Morrison - Kill Your Boyfriend. Accessed May 29, 2008 with an afterword from Morrison and a paper fortune teller. A third edition was published in October 2008."Kill Your Boyfriend" third printing at DC Comics.com
Synopsis The story is a darkly comic satire of British youth culture which revolves around a bookish middle class schoolgirl, who has a bland unexciting life until she meets a strange young boy who convinces her to kill her boyfriend. They then go on the run together for a series of anarchic adventures across Britain.
Meeting up with a group of travellers in a double-decker bus, the pair indulge in more crime and sexual experimentation before making their way to Blackpool to meet their final fate.
Writing Morrison notes in the afterword of the second edition that the story is inspired in part by the myth of Dionysus.
Reception In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Boy as #10 on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics". One critic draws parallels with such films as Natural Born Killers.The Savage Critic: "My Life is Choked with Comics #9 - Kill Your Boyfriend & Girl #1-3", September 14, 2007 . Accessed May 29, 2008
References
External links
Before All Star - Grant Morrison on Kill Your Boyfriend, Newsarama, November 6, 2008
Reviews Review of Kill Your Boyfriend by Matt Fraction, Art Bomb Review of Kill Your Boyfriend at KvltSite