Something Is Killing The Children #25 cover (Crees Lee art) - Cutter cover

One of my first pieces of art from SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN retrieved at SDCC 2024.

During SDCC 2024, I was looking to be inspired or reinspired to dig into a series, after the massive end of the X-Men Krakoan era which left me a bit depressed. I was going to con for 5 things:
-pick up some Josh Cassara art and commission piece
-see my friend Kevin Vanhook and pick up a piece of his early art that he was holding for me
-go to the X-Men panel and either get X-cited for whats next or start thinking about the end of chasing all the X books
-go to various comic panels and see what might inspire my next adventure in comics
-have fun and meet up with old and new friends, looking at comic art, eating lots of good food and escaping home for a while with my partner

I accomplished all of these SDCC goals this year and this piece comes from one of my goals to get reinspired for another series. I already really enjoyed SIKTC but had taken a break for the past year or so. After seeing a few BOOM! panels, especially the one focused on SIKTC with James Tynion IV and Wether Dell’Edera, I really lit up with excitement for catching up and seeing what’s to come.

The previous day, we saw some art by Crees Lee when walking around and got a few smaller card size pieces that we felt like needed to be in our home and saw this piece but didn’t want to start spending inappropriately so early on at con. After the panel we headed straight down back to his booth to purchase this piece that caught our eye from this awesome series with a crazy fun character. This is the cover variant for SIKTC #25, the BOOM! publisher variant (The Comic Book Dealer limited 300 book) that came out last year at comic con of 2023. It features Charlotte Cutter on the cover in a very early cover appearance (I think Mack’s pack has her on issue #24 cover but that set may have come out after this #25 variant). She is a killer of a character and this issue is a heartbreaking monumental issue. For the art getting this character in this particular outfit, with bandana on head, showing one of her eyes and with her whip was perfect. It’s great art to represent something I really enjoy.

This was a great addition to our con, meeting the artist Crees Lee, hearing about how he creates this art and got to do a fun cover of this really deadly cool character early on in her comic history. Getting a piece like this from a series I really enjoy and so very happy to be back reading the Slaughterverse. This piece was definitely the bow on top of our comic con experience (now knowing this character a lot better she really doesn’t care too much for bows but that’s we’ll work with that). I’ve spent the last week enjoying the original series and now the spin-offs, which we were happy to hear that the Cutter House will get some more play as noted during SDCC.