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Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me #1
Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness—the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.
36 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2016
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October 26, 2016
Saw this in one of my local comics stores a couple days ago as I was picking up Ed Brubaker's Kill or be Killed. This comic is an adaptation by film critic Devin Faraci of the Jim Thompson classic (1952), a gritty crime noir that out-grits and out-nasties many of the other crime/detective writers of that period. This represents one of Faraci's initial forays into comics, and so you might not expect much, maybe, though it worked out for former reviewer Neil Gaiman (and others), didn't it? Some of Faraci's reviews are featured in (blessed by) Brubaker in some of the issues of Kill. In his bio for this issue Faraci states his admiration for Thompson and "hopes he didn't screw it up."
I would say he didn't. After all, he has one of the classic crime tales and all of Thompson's deliciously nasty language to work with. It's good, especially if you are just starting out in comics, to have great source material from someone else. You can do worse than Thompson as a model. Darwin Cooke had Richard Parker to work with, and it worked out well for him.
The basic story is that Lou Ford is a small town Texas deputy sheriff, flying under the radar after some "sickness" got him in trouble years ago. He can feel that sickness coming back. Can you guess what that sickness is, wise guy? See the title. Pay attention here or I'll smack you around!
This is pretty good, maybe 3.5, though the art from Vic Malmotra and Jason Millet (colors) is not as gritty as the plot and language of Thompson's story. A little too cleaned up, maybe. But it's still good, and worth paying attention to. An essay by Stephen King on Thompson included in the issue is very good, claiming that Thompson's best novels are as good as any works of fiction in the century (Thompson also wrote The Grifters and The Getaway).
I would say he didn't. After all, he has one of the classic crime tales and all of Thompson's deliciously nasty language to work with. It's good, especially if you are just starting out in comics, to have great source material from someone else. You can do worse than Thompson as a model. Darwin Cooke had Richard Parker to work with, and it worked out well for him.
The basic story is that Lou Ford is a small town Texas deputy sheriff, flying under the radar after some "sickness" got him in trouble years ago. He can feel that sickness coming back. Can you guess what that sickness is, wise guy? See the title. Pay attention here or I'll smack you around!
This is pretty good, maybe 3.5, though the art from Vic Malmotra and Jason Millet (colors) is not as gritty as the plot and language of Thompson's story. A little too cleaned up, maybe. But it's still good, and worth paying attention to. An essay by Stephen King on Thompson included in the issue is very good, claiming that Thompson's best novels are as good as any works of fiction in the century (Thompson also wrote The Grifters and The Getaway).
September 22, 2016
A tad dense, but a really impressive adaptation thus far. Gets the mood of the book and does a nice job of getting through a lot of story relatively quickly.
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