Joe Hill, Jason
Ciaramella and Vic Malhotra“Thumbprint” (IDW, 2013)
You don’t have to be Stephen King’s son to know that the
really scary stuff isn’t monsters or ghosts or anything that goes bump in the
night. The really scary stuff is what
people do to each other.
Thumbprint is a graphic
adaptation of a Hill short story. Mal
Greenfell is an American veteran who has recently returned from Iraq. As she struggles to adapt to life after the war,
she finds that her actions in the war prove to be inescapable.
Thumbprint is a
brutal little story. But Hill knows his
craft, and has created compelling characters and situations that haunted me for
days after finishing the story. It’s not
pretty and it’s certainly not nice, but it does have a few things to say about
war and how we treat each other.
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