Kill Audio is a story about the titular character hunting down musical genres embodied by people. I think. It’s not exactly clear in this issue just what exactly is happening. Coming into this series midway through is not very forgiving. I finished reading the comic without knowing what was happening--at all. The storytelling is so erratic, the concept behind the story so foreign, that it honestly makes no sense when reading it on its own. The only reason I have any clue as to what happened in this issue is because I went back and read reviews of the first two issues.

Kill Audio is written by Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer and guitarist for Coheed and Cambria.  I enjoy C&C, the concepts behind their albums and their musical range (going from hard rock to orchestral and serene and back to the rock), and I assumed I would get the same satisfaction from another project from the same writer. Sadly not.

Having an art background, I’m both very critical of, and very appreciative of artists' work. Mr. Sheldon’s art is very good at setting the mood for the comic, expressive and outrageous. However, it suffers from a distracting palette of overbearing greys and screaming reds. While the intricate linework is good, some of the panels make no discernible sense, leaving the reader clueless as to what's happening both in terms of story and visuals.

Bottom Line: Unless you’ve been following this from the beginning and already know what’s happening, don’t bother with this one, you’ll just be lost. The only thing I took from this comic is that they somehow manage to kill Heavy Metal, which is just wrong. Anyone who knows anything about Heavy Metal knows that you can’t kill the Metal. It would be kind of amusing if Heavy Metal came back in the next issue and took his revenge. That would be awesome.

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