About some serial Killer

Detective comics tend to bore. They often have good scripts that make us think, "This would work better as an HBO miniseries," and mediocre drawings made from traced photos that make us think, "This looks like a storyboard, not a comic." GREEN RIVER KILLER is not exactly like that. The story is good; it's nothing less than a chronicle of the investigation into the serial killer Gary Leon Ridgway, who murdered 47 women over several decades. So yes, there's a lot to tell. While the drawings may appear somewhat lacking at the beginning, as the story progresses, they impress with their restraint and are extremely fitting for narrating a very dark tale.

However, the book has a glaring flaw. It is written by the son of the police officer who led the investigation, so we never see corrupt police or abusive behavior, not even police officers who, like those in True Detective, neglect their personal lives and become monsters almost worse than those they pursue, or at the very least, police who bend the rules to achieve results. Here, the police are not only immaculate but we also have scenes that are cringe-worthy, such as a Father's Day party in a police family (which adds nothing to the story). No, the interesting character that justifies the book is Gary, the killer, who has little to envy of that other expressionist monster, M, the vampire of Dusseldorf.

Read it, if you want to.