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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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He likes nothing more than sitting down to eat a good marble omelet while listening to Metal Machine Music on 78 rpm. I mean, this medium itself is cinema graphic and there’s a certain amount of license cutting to scenes of pure conjecture, admitted to be not much more than a theory; though they believe it, based on significant evidence they’ve consumed… but certainly cannot remotely prove. He starts with the premiere of “Psycho”, a story that takes inspiration from Gein’s twisted and abusive relationship with his mother, and slowly starts to tell the tale of Gein and how he potentially went from mild mannered and scared boy to small town monster.

But Schechter and Powell don’t show everything, so our imagination takes over, which is never a bad thing, and we make it worse. Anyway, this book is a page turning work of real-life horror, albeit one that makes you feel a little intellectually dirty afterwards. To be fair, I willingly read a book about a necrophile/serial killer so maybe this is all just projection). I have an interest in true crime and was already familiar with Ed Gein and his crimes, but even I was surprised by some things when I was reading this. One of the greats in the field of true crime literature, Harold Schechter ( Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell ( The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged serial killers in American history, Ed Gein.While young his parents move him and his older brother Henry to an isolated farmhouse where the boys can’t escape from their mother’s tyrannical rantings and they become warped by her teachings. Is our idea of progress and civilization, something we derive from ancient Greece (with its us-civilized and them-uncivilized dichotomy), a blatant lie we tell ourselves? Devoid of the inhibitions and moral conscience that keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow, they act out the savagery we have inherited from our primate ancestors. Eric has spent his career creating and promoting the validity and importance of creator owned comics through Albatross and other publishers such as Dark Horse and Image Comics.

It would be easy to dismiss the problem as non-existent, as too mired in the impossibility of reaching a clear answer. Ja näinhän se tosiaan menee, että edellämainitut teokset eivät olisi koskaan syntyneet ilman Ed Geinin (1906-1984) tekoja. The evocative art by Powell, done in his trademark black and white illustrations, is inked and shaded to perfection.Eddie Gein, one of America’s most infamous serial killers (or, simply put, deranged men), is not a force of nature we can easily forget, nature being here the plethora of psyches that are produced inside the walls of humanity (some are brilliant, some are average, and some are simply impossible to categorize). So many stories have been based on Gein and they’re each disturbing in their own right but you can’t get more disturbed than the original. Eddie is portrayed as a bumbling fool at times, but the author and artist show he might have a much more sinister side, which I 100% believe.

What makes rumor a necessity is that it forces us to apply both fact and fantasy to each other in a way that informs our personal truth and becomes our story. Despite this, Eddie develops an unhealthy attachment to his mother, believing all other women are harlots. So this book gives the back story on who Eddie Gein was, his upbringing ( which was jacked up and tragic as hell ), and the atrocities he committed from two known murders, to digging up bodies from their graves, and wearing the victims skin and dancing around in it.

The way Schechter and Powell portray his childhood, it's no wonder he grew up to become a grave robbing ghoul and murderer. I love Eric Powell‘s art, but I usually don’t like his writing, so I’ve avoided his comics over the years because the art can’t quite save the writing (I know I say that art is more important than writing in comics, but it’s not the only thing). He murdered two women (though it’s likely the number is much higher) and robbed the graves of several other recently-deceased elderly women so that he could flay the corpses, turn the skin to turn into clothes and wear it so that he could “be” a woman/his mother. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, I guess, since the authors then offer their own Jungian interpretation of his criminal motivations--with what I am sure are troubled references to Aztec mythology--that seems just as ridiculous. But there is something more: We might indeed feel sick in the stomach just by a situation where we perceive something is not at all right, as if the lurking feeling that crawls on the back of our neck is not lying there for nothing.

Follows the story of Ed Gein, influence on such characters as Norman Bates and Leatherface, this book deep dives into what drove Gein and how he went about his crimes.

I was very curious about this graphic novel (or a comic, as I will refer to this book from this point on) can tell what wasn't already known, especially to me since I already read Harold Schechter's "Deviant", an in-depth look at Gein's case. He has a good ability to draw likenesses, so it looks like Gein, down to the droopy eye, and Powell makes him as unassuming as possible, except for a few rare moments when the monster comes out.

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