Title: Torso
Author: Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko
Pages: 280 pages
Genre: Graphic Novel
Medium: Hardback
Acquisition: Preordered
Date Completed: March 4, 2012
Rating: **1/2
The subject of Torso is the 1935 slayings in Cleveland, when a serial killer left a string of dismembered bodies and ultimately evaded capture.
Bendis and Andreyko have chosen a singularly gruesome subject for their endeavor, and the production is lackluster. The illustrations are drenched in black ink to the point of being visually stunted; instead of being stark and dramatic the pages are instead nearly impossible to distinguish. Compounded with this are a number of very unfortunate typographical errors (the incorrect "their" versus "there," for example) that became very distracting.
I've wavered between two-and-a-half and three stars, and ultimately settled on two-and-a-half for the physical headache.
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