For all fans of film noir and graphic novels, I present "M." Photo-realistically painted by Jon J Muth, this was originally released as a four part graphic series in 1990 and has finally been compiled into one beautiful hardcover. It's an epic remake of Fritz Lang's original serial killer thriller released in 1931. If you don't know Lang already, you might have heard of his famous sci-fi film Metropolis. This was his first film with sound and has gone down in history for laying the groundwork for every serial killer movie following it. The graphic adaptation was painstakingly painted over two years by Muth, focusing heavily on the Noir element in page after page of beautiful tonal watercolors. You really won't believe your eyes. Even I was like, "That's a painting?" As for the story, it's a beast of a tale that involves the hunt for a whistling pedophile child murderer by police in the Berlin underground. Sounds pretty dark, eh? It only gets intensified by the pages. Hardcover, 189 pages.

reviewed by C'mish