Get an Exclusive First Look at Oni Press' Murder Drones Comic

Last year, IGN broke the quality that the wildly fashionable web bid Murder Drones is making the leap to comics, with Oni Press releasing a graphic caller adaptation of the archetypal season. That comic was successfully crowdfunded connected Kickstarter, but present it's making its mode to comic shops arsenic it sees a wider merchandise successful 2026.

IGN tin present exclusively debut an extended preview of Murder Drones #1. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Murder Drones is simply a collaboration betwixt Oni and animation workplace Glitch Productions. The comic is written by Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel United) and drawn by Jo Mi-Gyeong (Eve, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance). The comic serves arsenic an adaptation of the archetypal play of the Murder Drones animated series.

Here's Oni's authoritative statement of Murder Drones:

In the acold aboriginal connected the desolate exoplanet designated Copper 9, the humans are agelong gone but the robotic idiosyncratic drones they created to excavation the planet’s resources are inactive hard astatine work. Together, they person managed to forge their ain makeshift nine . . . oregon truthful they thought until a antecedently chartless benignant of robot - the dreaded “Murder Drones” - are activated by a long-forgotten possibly-eldritch protocol to disassemble immoderate idiosyncratic that deviates from its archetypal programming. But erstwhile a rebellious young idiosyncratic drone named Uzi forms an improbable confederation with 2 disassembly drones—Serial Designations N and V—can they, together, uncover the secrets of their origins . . . and past the heavy twisted horrors awaiting them?

Murder Drones #1 volition beryllium released connected February 11, 2026. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

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