A review by kdahlo
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schechter, Eric Powell

1.0

I generally like serial killer content, I do not like sympathetic serial killer portraits. Especially when the premise is: something horrible must have happened to him make him do this! I feel like authors who write these narratives feel like they are insightfully reading between the lines of historical records. In fact they are gullible: repeating and elaborating on excuses spun by unrepentant killers. Fact is thin on the ground here if you don't ascribe to the (rather dull) theory that killers "must be" victims in some way. A similar graphic novel I would recommend is the Green River Killer, that story focuses on one of the investigators, and does a much better job researching the lives of the victims and the community. This book just regurgitates a lot of lurid speculation about the killer's "tragic" childhood. Dull.