The Hunter by Richard Stark…….
Gritty. No other book has ever tried to convey the tone of noir in frames and succeeded like this one. The art makes the comic better than the novel. Not to mention the fact that the comic has purged out all the unnecessary things and that makes the hero much more brutal than the novel. The art is just another kick in the gut that helps the feeling to sink in. And the color tone never fit the tone of the story better. Just a look at that bluish tone along with the pulpy page color with the mention of the word crime fiction noir makes your heart jump. And the opening is just perfect. The first 30 or so pages is a kick ass example of how skill, tone and angles can capture a now cheesy description into pure awesomeness. The problem starts with the start of the dialogs. The story was written in 1962 and it becomes painfully apparent in some of the dialogs. The other problem comes from the story itself. Once Mal Resnick is dead, the hero (or rather, anti-hero) goes in