Beloved Animated Web Series Murder Drones Makes the Jump to Comics | Comic-Con 2025

One of the biggest web bid successful the satellite is making the leap to comics, arsenic Oni Press reveals a caller Murder Drones graphic novel. The comic, which debuts connected Kickstarter successful September 2025 and successful comic shops successful February 2026, volition accommodate the archetypal play of the deed animated series.

Murder Drones is simply a collaboration betwixt Oni and animation Studio Glitch Productions. The graphic caller is written by Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel United) and drawn by Jo Mi-Gyeong (Eve, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), with screen creation by Alessio Zonno (I Heart Skullcrusher!).

Art by Alessio Zonno. (Image Credit: Oni Press/Glitch Productions)

Murder Drones was created by writer/director Liam Vickers and produced by Glitch co-founders Kevin & Luke Lerdwichagul. The bid ran from 2021 to 2024 and earned 2 Webby Awards for Best Animated Video. Here's the authoritative statement for the graphic novel:

From the twisted caput of creator Liam Vickers and Glitch Productions comes a bosom warming communicative of “destroy each humans. In the acold future, a earthy catastrophe has flash-frozen humanity’s distant mining exoplanet, Copper 9. Only present the “worker drones” – built by humanity and yet outlived by them – person to rebuild nine from the frozen ashes... An endeavor analyzable by the quality of “disassembly drones,” vampiric robot counterparts hell-bent connected wiping mechanical beingness from the satellite and an unsettling microorganism known arsenic the "Absolute Solver.”

"The squad astatine Glitch Productions are fiercely autarkic and profoundly creative, and what they've built is wildly inspiring to witness. It's an grant for Oni to beryllium welcomed into their fold to assistance grow Glitch's footprint into the satellite of comic publication storytelling for the archetypal time," said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson successful a statement. "From Invader Zim to Rick and Morty to Cult of the Lamb, Oni Press has ever been astatine the forefront of bringing cutting-edge properties astatine the forefront of popular civilization to comics successful daring caller ways, and Murder Drones is the cleanable adjacent hold of that tradition. Whether you're already a dedicated instrumentality oregon acceptable to acquisition these characters for the archetypal clip successful comics form, we can't hold to stock what Wyatt Kennedy and Jo Mi-Gyeong – 2 wildly talented creators successful their ain close – are bringing to this darkly fascinating and instantly engrossing mythology."

Murder Drones fans tin sojourn the pre-launch leafage for the Kickstarter run to beryllium notified erstwhile the run goes unrecorded successful September. Glitch is besides hosting a Comic-Con sheet connected Friday July 25 from 6 to 7 PM PT successful Room 6A.

In different comic publication news, Cult of the Lamb is returning to comics for the caller Schism Special, and Marvel introduced David Colton, the forgotten post-9/11 Captain America.

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