Your First Look at Matz and Luc Jacamon’s THE KILLER: AFFAIRS OF THE STATE #2

Discover the Eisner-Nominated Series Before the Netflix Film from Acclaimed Director David Fincher in March 2022

 BOOM! Studios today revealed a first look at THE KILLER: AFFAIRS OF THE STATE #2, the next issue in the return of the Eisner Award-nominated series by acclaimed French artist Luc Jacamon and writer Matz (The Black Dahlia), bringing readers into the Killer’s high-stakes world of espionage and contract killing before the upcoming Netflix film directed by David Fincher (The Social Network), written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), and starring Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class).

The gang wars within the city intensify thanks to the suspicious death of a prominent drug runner. Barbara, the Killer and Nicolas’s handler, introduces them to another undercover agent working to infiltrate the gang of a corrupt city hall official. Can they leverage the connection to give the official the “negative treatment” — and take him off the board for good?

THE KILLER: AFFAIRS OF THE STATE #2 features all-new main cover art by series artist and global star illustrator Jacamon, and variant covers by highly acclaimed artists DANI (The Low, Low Woods) and Tamra Bonvillain, and Toni Infante (We Only Find Them When They’re Dead).

THE KILLER: AFFAIRS OF THE STATE is the latest release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning Archaia imprint, home to inspiring graphic novels such as Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, and Albert Monteys; The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne-Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby; Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane, We Served the People by Emei Burell, New World by David Jesus Vignolli, About Betty’s Boob by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau, Eighty Days by A.C. Esguerra, Better Angels: A Kate Warne Adventure by Jeff Jensen and George Schall, The Short While by Jeremy Sorese, as well as licensed series including Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the AshesLev Grossman’s The MagiciansJim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation. 

Print copies of THE KILLER: AFFAIRS OF THE STATE #2 will be available for sale on March 30, 2022 exclusively at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Kindle.  

For continuing news on THE KILLER and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.


Luc Jacamon / Photo by Pascale Bichot

Matz / Photo by Darius Nolent