Marvel Announces New Foolkiller Series

Marvel Comics has announced a new Foolkiller series from writer Max Bemis (Worst X-Man Ever, also lead singer of Say Anything) and artists Dalibor Talajić. (Red Wolf). Foolkiller, a.k.a. Greg Salinger, is known for doing exactly what his name suggest, killing fools, and recently joined up with Deadpool’s Mercs for Money crew. Now, he seems to be striking out on his own. Not only that, but he’s falling back on his psychiatry degree and attempting to set criminals and villains on the straight and narrow.

“That’s our hook. In a way, it’s kind of a Dexter-y plot set-up — you have an antihero who’s a vigilante, who enjoys getting into the minds of these people that, on face value, he would just shoot in the face,” Bemis tells CBR. “That’s the basic plot set-up. It’s really a fun set-up, and I get to do a lot with it. I think the main underlying sentiment that makes it a fun book to write is, besides Deadpool, a lot of these Punisher-type characters are very un-self-conscious and very serious. Greg is kind of affable at this point, because he gets this new lease on life. The whole premise is, he never really enjoyed it — he had a pretty horrible existence as the Foolkiller — so he’s offered a chance, in a way I won’t detail too much, to have this job as a shrink, and to have a sort of normal life. He wants that.

“If anyone read my X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever miniseries, that was about being an outsider in the mutant community,” Bemis continues. “For Greg, he’s kind of an outsider in the normal person community, because he was a friggin’ vigilante and he’s actually a lunatic. I think all of my work will probably have that theme. If you read any of my creator-owned stuff, there’s always some kind of fish out of water-ish scenario, because that’s my neurotic thing.”

Foolkiller will launch this fall as part of the Marvel NOW! publishing push.