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The South Korean television series “Squid Game” has become a success. The game itself can be fictitious, but “squid game” speaks to a true story: people led at the forefront of poverty and debt. True not only in South Hyper-Capitalist Korea, but in the countries of the world, it is therefore not surprising that “Squad Game” is an international success. David Fincher has an American remake “squid game” in preparation, but that seems redundant given how universal the original is.
What about a story that returns premise, however? What if it was the people who have done this unbalanced world who had to pay for this? The horror filmmaker who has become comic artist Patrick Horvath has the answer with his new comic strip One-Shot, “Free for all”, which promises “a new brutal vision of capitalism by combat”.
“Free for all” was previously published as digital exclusiveBut the publisher Oni Press prints it with remastered art. For all new readers, the comic synopsis establishes the world, the issues and the characters:
“In the future, the World Finance League exists for the benefit of all, by randomly choosing those from the billionaires and billionaires of the world and presenting them a choice: either to give half of their assets to The Common Good or defend them in the ritual combat. Luella Dominguez, in a fight to death.
Oni Press and Surface Promotions shared an exclusive look at “Free for all” # 1 with / FilmWith the blankets of the problem and the selection pages included below. The main cover is drawn by Horvath himself, illustrating slices of the head of Ted and Luella aligned while the money falls.
Oni pressVariant covers include those of artists Matt Kindt, Juni Ba, Noah Bailey and one by Matt Lesniewski presented both in color and in black and white.
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Oni pressThe free of Patrick Horvath for all concerns billionaire hunger games
Horvath made four horror films, but the comics are where he became a superstar. In 2023, he wrote and drawn “Under the trees where no one sees” For IDW publication. Located in a world of speaking animals, comics follows the Samantha Strong bear – which, under his friendly attitude of small town and his teddy bear looks, is a vicious serial killer. The dissonance between the visuals of the history book and brutal violence is of course the interest of history. Even this title has a pattern of cute rhymes, but it also suggests that the frightening double life of Samantha.
Horvath has shown a masterful control of the tone in this book and demonstrates it again in “Free For All”. In an interview published in the rear pages of the number, Horvath said he came to “free for all” after the 2016 American presidential election.
“He struck me that a large part of the resentment who led there had his root in income inequality. If you could solve this problem, it seemed that you may be able to open a path to a better world. The basis of the pledge of 50% of your wealth” it would be billionaires who would fight to death to keep it. “”
You see that in the first pages of the comic strip, where the PDG pharmaceutical Cameron Miller is chosen by the lottery to fight Ted. Miller could have prevented his money to avoid being called, but he didn’t do it. Without entering specific spoilers, money is also the root of Ted and Luella’s Feud.
As Horvath recognizes in his interview, more recent events – such as the assassination of the public ebb of the CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson – mean that comics is just as relevant as when he thought it for the first time.
Wisely, “free for all” does not put itself in details on the way in which the World Financing League was born or put these rules in place. Comic strip is involved in the future due to the presence of technologies like robots, but it is never said When in the future. The reason why stories like “Squid Game” and “The Hunger Games” generally present the lower classes that fight death is because they are the lower classes. In the world, we all live, it does not make sense to people who control the world to submit to its rules. Let them do it is a convincing fantasy that Horvath draws with the recovery in the pages below:
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Oni press“Free for all” # 1 is planned for the release on March 26, 2025.
