The Paybacks Archives

Dark Horse Comics has announced plans to collect Donny Cates, Eliot Rahal, and Geoff Shaw's superhero parody comic about the titular band of superhero repo persons, The Paybacks, this summer. Dark Horse published the first volume back in 2015 before it moved Heavy Metal in 2016 Now, both volumes will be collected in a single 224-page[...]

The Paybacks, a series set in the same world as the critically-acclaimed series Buzzkill, and concocted by the same creative team of Donny Cates and Eliot Rahal writing, Geoff Shaw on art, and Lauren Affe on colors, arrived for its first issue with pretty thunderous applause It is a rare thing to combine action/adventure with[...]

There are potentially thousands of characters for this series, and though there will be some central reoccurring characters on the crew known as the Paybacks, the background characters, major and minor, will become a big part of the experience of the book, too Think Canterbury Tales There will be a lot of chance encounters on[...]

And it's a superfiction comic about super powered repo men who have to get payments, or seize property or servitude from superfolk who still owe for all their high tech – oh I'll let the Paybacks explain. There you go Exposition in a can I talked to Donny and Eliot about the upcoming series… Rich Johnston: We've[...]

If you're a fan of commentary or just kick ass story telling then throw The Paybacks in your pull file when the first issue arrives on September 16th. Remember though, when they say it's not just a van, it's not just a van. Alex Wilson: Paybacks is set in the Buzzkill universe How do you both[...]

Aub Driver, beloved to all journalistas and swag hunters at cons, moderated the panel featuring Donny Cates and Eliot Rahal of Buzzkill and The Paybacks(2015), Brian Wood of The Massive, Fred Van Lente of Action Philosophers, Brain Boy, and The Resurrectionists, Gail Simone who needs no introduction,  Jim Calafiore, Raphael Albuquerque and more. Calafiore was[...]

Last week, in an interview by Alex Wilson talking to Eliot Rahal, Rahal let slip that The Paybacks was on the way, a sequel set within the Buzzkill universe reuniting the creative team from that Dark Horse book about a drug-addicted superhero (well, drugs are the fuel to his super-power), his troubled past, and grim[...]

The first is reputed to be a thematic sequel to Buzzkill called The Paybacks, also for Dark Horse, and it may well be an ongoing series This is supposed to involve a superhero loan company, a kind of Wonder Wonga.com I guess, and will be co-created with the co-creator of Hunter Quaid, Eliot Rahal. And the second[...]