I Killed Adolf Hitler

About this book

2008 Eisner Award Winner: Best U.S. Edition of International Material; 2008 Harvey Award Nominee: Best Single Issue or Story: A hitman is hired to travel back in time to kill Hitler in 1939... but things go very wrong. Hitler escapes to the present leaving the killer stranded in the past. This surprising thriller unfolds with Jasons wickedly dry humor. In this full-color graphic novel Jason posits a strange violent world in which contract killers can be hired to rub out pests be they dysfunctional relatives abusive co-workers loud neighbors or just annoyances in general and as you might imagine their services are in heavy demand. One such killer is given the unique job of traveling back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong. Hitler overpowers the would-be assassin and sends himself to the present leaving the killer stranded in the past. The killer eventually finds his way back to the present by simply waiting the decades out as he ages and teams up with his now much-younger girlfriend to track down the missing fascist dictator... at which point the book veers further into Jason territory as the cartoonists minimalist wickedly dry sense of humor slows down the story to a crawl: for long patches absolutely nothing happens but nobody can make nothing happening as riotously entertaining as Jason does... and finally when the reader isnt paying attention he brings it together with a shocking perfectly logical and yet completely unexpected climax which also solves a mystery from the very beginning of the book the reader had forgotten about. As always I Killed Adolf Hitler is rendered in Jasons crisp deadpan neo-clear-line style once again augmented by lovely understated coloring. 48 pages of full-color comics