A bestselling graphic novelist's sophomore manuscript unknowingly predicts a handful of murders. Who's to blame? Surely not the artist herself (Lee Si-young)! But in Kim Yong-gyun's Killer Toon, an intuitive cop (Uhm Ki-joon) is going to have to dig deep into her artwork if he's going to stop any future homicides from happening. Sixth sense or not, he's already too late for the self-mutilating publisher (Kim Do-young) and the suicidal mortician (Kwon Hae-yo). Will he figure out the source of the evil magic before his partner (Hyun Woo) is among the dead too? And what's the worst crime here: matricide? uxoricide? hit-and-run? or plagiarism? Because all are going to come into play!
As you — and the police chief (Oh Kwang-rok) — debate the pros and cons of each long-buried crime, you're also going to have to acknowledge that more than one teen's sadistic psychic powers must lie behind each of the messy massacres. There's revenge. There's arsonry. There's careerism taken a step too far. Plus, you should never underestimate the power of karma. Or the legacy of child abuse. Or the ease of car theft. Or, most importantly, the eye-catching appeals of a story presented in a visually layered manner. Especially when the primary color ends up being a blood red that won't wash away with the rain.
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