The creator of the Netflix global sensation "The Killer Is Me?" and Wave's "S Line," and master of Korean genre fiction, webtoon artist Kkomabi has finally returned with a new provocative work.
On the 16th, webtoon production company Jaedam Media (CEO Hwang Nam-yong) said Kkomabi's new crime thriller webtoon "Decalcomania" will be released exclusively on the reading platform Millie's Library starting today.
This new work "Decalcomania" is seen as a full-fledged crime thriller that Kkomabi is unveiling roughly 20 years after his representative and legendary masterpiece "The Killer Is Me?", drawing intense interest from both the webtoon and film industries.
As the title suggests, the work deals with the story of two men who, unaware of each other's existence, have their life trajectories subtly overlapping like a "decalcomania." On the surface, one is a seemingly ordinary and affectionate family man, Kim Ji-hun, and the other is a edgy, nervous person whose name is Kim Hun-ji, which is Ji-hun spelled backward. The two, each hiding a suffocatingly antisocial inner life, face a shocking report about "a husband who killed his wife," which opens the main narrative. A meticulous, breath-catching psychological battle chasing the true nature of the case and the masked real culprit is expected to grip readers' throats.
Through works such as "The Killer Is Me?," "S Line," and "Unresolved," Kkomabi has amassed a cult following with his brutally sharp depictions of human psychology and tightly woven foreshadowing hidden behind an extremely simplified drawing style.
His IP power has already been proven in domestic and international markets. The drama "The Killer Is Me?" reborn as a Netflix series swept the No. 1 spot in the global top 10 non-English TV category within just three days of release, and the recently released Wave drama "S Line" achieved the remarkable record of leading new paid subscriptions for 12 consecutive days and won the music award at the Canneseries festival, the first Korean drama to do so.
The newly unveiled "Decalcomania" is said to fully contain the charm of Kkomabi's signature "revisit run"—when clues hidden in the first reading appear differently on the second and third reads. Industry insiders rate the possibility of it being adapted for screen very highly.
Jaedam Media CEO Hwang Nam-yong said, "'Decalcomania' is a well-made work in which the more you read its foreshadowing and twists, the more completely new pleasures you discover," and added, "As most of Kkomabi's previous works have been successfully adapted for screen, we hope this new work will also be seen on screens and in living rooms soon."
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