A review by spacemanchris
Road To Perdition by Max Allan Collins

4.0

It's refreshing to go back to this book and see how concise it all is. In the middle of the Great Depression, a mobster's hitman is betrayed and goes on the road with his son on a quest for revenge. That's the story Max Allen Collins wanted to tell, so that's what we got. No fifty book epic, just a single straight forward story told well.

I remember when the movie adaptation came out and I learned it was based on a comic, it really opened my eyes to what comics were. Up until that point I thought they were all just Batman and Spider-Man, I had no idea there were whole genres of serious storytelling.

Richard Piers Rayner's artwork is quite unlike any I've seen before. It has a definite old timey feel, where it might as well be from a Dick Tracy comic, but then goes hyper-realistic at other times. It all works really well for the story. He has a fantastic use of lines in his art, particularly in the more grounded scenes where there's little action happening.

A really nice, self contained crime thriller, I think it'd be a nice introduction for anyone curious about reading a comic that doesn't feature a superhero.