Publisher Boom! Studios Number of issues 4 | Format Ongoing series Writer(s) Mike Carey | |
Genre Superheroes, science-fiction Publication date March 2013 - March 2015 | ||
Suicide Risk was an ongoing comic book series that ran for 25 issues from 2013 until 2015. It was written by Mike Carey and drawn by Elena Casagrande.
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Synopsis
Leo Winters is a police officer in San Diego when people with superpowers suddenly start appearing all over the world, leading to a wave of destruction and carnage. He manages to track down a grifter couple who are in possession of a device that helps people "unlock" their superpowers for a sizeable fee. They use the device on him, and he soon finds that he has not only developed superpowers, but a suppressed identity, the extra-dimensional warlord Requiem, has taken over his body.
Leo/Requiem will soon be forced to play a part in a huge conflict across dimensional barriers, threatening to destroy not only himself and his family, but the entire world and possibly the universe.
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Reception
Critical reception for the series has been positive and the series has an average Critic rating of 8.1 on Comic Book Roundup, based on 45 reviews.