I Killed Adolf Hitler

January 23, 2008 /

I Killed Adolf Hitler, by Jason, is my first book for the Graphic Novels Challenge. I’ve never tried graphic novels before, and haven’t been a huge fan of comic books since my days of Betty and Veronica, with the obvious exception of the Buffy, Season 8 comics. So here I find myself treading into a new medium, where an entire book can be read during lunch, and more is said in pictures than in words. The example I chose for a graphic, I suppose, isn’t a good one, since most of the frames contain words, but there are pages in the book that don’t contain any. Pages where the deadpan expressions of the characters say more than pages of words could say.

In I Killed Adolf Hitler we find a world where hiring someone to kill your neighbor because they play their music too loud is perfectly legal. Where there doesn’t seem to be much joy. The protagonist is sent back in time by a scientist to, you guessed it, kill Adolf Hitler before he comes to power, thus preventing the rise of World War II, and making the world a better place. He goes back, shoots Adolf, but then things go awry. I won’t ruin it for you by telling you more, but I’ll tease you by saying that there’s a kinda sweet little love story in there about the protagonist and his girlfriend, and what they find out about themselves and each other in the process of trying to correct history.

6 Comments

  • ML

    January 23, 2008 at 6:23 am

    I’m fascinated! I never thought a comic book could do that. It’s nice to broaden your horizons and do something a bit different.

  • Py Korry

    January 23, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    I too have trouble warming up to graphic novels. However, one time when we were in Berkeley I was reading a graphic novella and it was kind of intriguing. The frames I read look good, so maybe I’ll give this one a shot — but only after I start and finish “Spin.” 🙂

  • amuirin

    January 24, 2008 at 9:26 am

    Can’t say the dog’s look too inspiring. Betty and Veronica rock, however. This was weird cus I didn’t visit yesterday, but we both ended up posting comics.

    Are all comic books graphic novels, or does it hafta be a continuous story to count?

  • Edi

    January 24, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Hope this isn’t a repost – something happened to my computer and my comment disappeared.

    The name of the book is Arctic Homestead – The true story of one family’s survival and courage in the Alaskan wilds.

    Authors are Norma Cobb and Charles W. Sasser.

    I found the book at our library just be chance as I was hunting through some stuff.

    Amazon has the book for sale…hope you enjoy it.