i kill giants

Joe Kelly’s critically acclaimed graphic novel I Kill Giants is being developed into a movie by producer Chris Columbus, and it’s just attracted a star from another major comic book adaptation — Guardians of the Galaxy’s Zoe Saldana has signed on to play a leading role in the film from director Anders Walter, who won an Oscar in 2014 for his short film Helium.

  Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura’s I Kill Giants is one of the best and most honest depictions of a child’s reaction to loss in the comic book form. Barbara Thorson, our heroine, is precocious, prickly and daring, devoted to her career as a giant killer. Actual, mythical giants, she insists -- beasts only she is able to keep at bay with her legendary warhammer, Coveleski. After a long day of bein

In comics, lightning strikes twice. Three times, if you're lucky. Last year, Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura released "I Kill Giants," a seven-issue Image miniseries about Barbara Thorson. If you missed it, you could've had a good day this past May, when the collection was released at a very reasonable sixteen bucks...