First I have to say that I'm not an expert in comics or graphic novels of any kind. Far from it. My experiences with comics are mainly limited to Donald Duck, Tintin, Asterix etc. But I also enjoy reading Alison Bechdel's cartoons and I recently read Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis . And I was in the library one day, wandered over to the comics section and chose something completely different to try out. M is a graphic novel by Jon J. Muth that is based on a film by Fritz Lang . Of course, neither of the names meant anything to me beforehand. I mainly chose the book, because the style of the drawings looked completely different from anything that I've read before and I wanted to try something new. The basic storyline of the graphic novel is based on Lang's film from as early as 1931. In the introduction to the book, the film is described as "the originator of the serial killer movie and the police procedural, the forefather of film noir "....