3,5 ⭐⭐⭐

The Killer Inside Me is a gruesome look into the mind of a serial killer before serial killers became mainstream (what a weird sentence). I've never read the original novel but if its this good I'm excited to check it out. Lou Ford is small town psychopath and this is his story of how he met his demise. I really enjoyed Vic Malhotra's art as he brought the brutal realism to life. This book won't appeal to everyone but I enjoyed this look into the darkness.

I've never read the original novel, but I did see the 2010 film. At the time, I didn't really know much about the background of the movie, but knew it was a great story.This novel was very much ahead of its time. Serial killers were still a novel idea in 1952 when this novel was first published, so I'm sure this was shocking at the time.Judged on its own, this is great comic adaptation. The art fits the story perfectly, and the story is great. If you're a fan of pulp fiction that transcends the

Finally read the last issue of this volume! And I still have not read the original, but will! I suspect I will think less of this adaptation after I do, but at the moment I think the story is really well done, a first person serial killer tale fashioned in the early fifties by a superb, gritty, noir crime novelist, supposedly his masterpiece. Lou Ford is the boring deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. Everybody likes him, except they don't know he's got a secret he's been hiding for some tim...

The script was true to the original source material. The artist style was reminiscent of Darwyn Cooke. The introduction by Stephen King is an exact copy that can be found in the Mulholland Books paperback reprint.

Full discloser. I'm an idiot. I was trying to buy Jim Thompson's novel online and this edition came up when I did a search. I thought it was just new cover art, and I was sort of drawn in by the Introduction by Stephen King bit, so I clicked "buy". Fast forward a few days, and it arrives, not as the novel I expected, but as a new graphic novelization of the story. I love graphic novels, so I kept it and decided to give it a try once I actually successfully bought and read the original book.I rea...

In the original novel, everything is seen from the main character's point of view. In the comics adaptation, we see it from the outside. Something is lost as a result. We are still privy to his cold self-serving thoughts through captions, but it isn't quite the same. It's still pretty good.

I should probably read the actual book now. Maybe all his books.

This was interesting, but I feel I will get a lot more out of the original, when I finally read it. Of course, this can be said for many graphic adaptations, but I do like the graphic work more on occasion. It just seems like a lot of history is left out. I will grant that from this work you can tell that Jim Thompson was quite ahead of his time with this serial killer perspective, and he had it down way before Bret Easton Ellis.

A compelling, dark, vivid, crime fiction graphic novel, set in the 1950s. Lou Ford, a Texan sheriff, is a psychopath, a lunatic. The story is in the first person and whilst the reader may empathise with Lou, the ruthlessness of his character and actions elicit no sympathy. A worthwhile read.

I read the original novel back in 1991, and I recall giving it a thumbs down in my mind. Revisiting the story in this graphic novel adaptation, I'm reminded why. I find the narrator flat and boring despite all his murderous thoughts, and the story is a trudge to the corner into which his deeds paint him.

I love Jim Thompson’s writing. I’ve enjoyed the movies based on his writing. For The Killer Inside Me, I chose to read the novel first, and then watch the film versions. Out of curiosity, I read this version. The book is really good. It’s clever, well structured, vivid, atmospheric. The movies are ok, but also more lurid and less nuanced than the novel. This graphic version has none of that. It’s mostly just harsh. You might enjoy it, but do yourself a favor and read the book.

This was a great read. Lou Ford is terrifying, and a great actor, which is also terrifying. I’d love to read the original book.

L'assassino che è in me di Jim Thompson"ATTENZIONE! ATTENZIONE!GLI AUTOSTOPPISTI POTREBBERO ESSERE SCAPPATI DAL MANICOMIO!" In una piccola città del Texas ad economia petrolifera il vice sceriffo Lou Ford svolge il suo dovere amato e benvoluto dai suoi concittadini. Ma non tutto è come sembra, dietro i luoghi comuni stucchevoli è uno stile di vita ordinato si nasconde uno dei primi e più feroci psicopatici della letteratura americana.L'assassino che è in me è il romanzo più celebre di un autore

I haven't read the book but I thought this was quite a good effort.

(4,2 of 5 - very enjoyable crime-killer story with slow but rewarding build-up)"Our kind. Us people. All of us that started the game with a crooked cue, that wanted so much and got so little, that meant so good and did so bad. All us folks. All of us."Comics based on the novel by Jim Thompson (which is also filmed in the noir movie) raised my curiosity. I was looking for some decent noir-ish crime comics with a little kick, little more than just regular crime story. Killer Inside Me is at first

A great intro to an acclaimed author, or to crime comics. not the smartest choice for insomnia abatement, but here we are. leave Stephen King's foreward until last, because he cycles through all the best lines.

I live this novel. It's not my favorite of Thompson's books, but it's up there. I haven't seen either of the movie adaptations, but not out of a decision to avoid them. I'm not sure, however, that this story is better seen than imagined. I doubt it is. Even still, the flat illustrations in this telling do little to make the story convincing, and the narrative focuses far too much on the lurid details. What makes the novel so amazing is how blasé the treatment is. That's very much missing from th...

The original must be better. In this graphic novelization, the serial killer protagonist goes a round a small town murdering people murdering people with direct connections to him, gives the flimsiest of alibis and does some half-assed frames. I couldn't get into it because I couldn't believe any of it working. I like a clever crime, but these aren't clever.

Probably should have read the paperback. Pedestrian art. They knew who dun it the whole time so why wait thru four more murders?