This is the best graphic novel that has never been written. Well, I guess I should explain this. In 2005 Michael Alan Nelson ("MAN") - this very talented writer of stuff - wrote an online novel by the name of DINGO. It is still on his blogspot, you can read it there (and I would recommend: please, do read it, it is that good). In the following years MAN became the busiest writer at Boom! Comics where he is known for his "Fall of Cthulhu" series and the all too short "Hexed" series, all collected in Trade Paperbacks meanwhile. Most of Nelson's other work are adaptions of concepts and plotlines of other authors. While he is an excellent writer by all means he really shines when working on own original ideas.
In 2009 Boom! gave him the opportunity to adapt his Dingo novel into a 4 issue limited series. And this series is collected into this paperback we are talking about. And here comes my only complaint: If I would not have known the novel I would have said to have read an interesting graphic novel. Having read the novel first I say: the comic is too short, too simple, too polished compared to the written novel. An adequate adaption would have needed at least estimated 12 issues to catch all the ramifications of this great novel.
Well, Dingo is a man at the end of his twenties who has to guard a wooden box which is a mysterious family heirloom. By the carelessness of his rock star brother this box gets lost. Dingo has to get it back by all costs. Why, that you have to find out reading. He is accompanied by an odd stray dog big as a calf and haunted by his ex-wife who follows her own ruthless agenda. At the end you learn among other things where the nickname Dingo comes from.
I would recommend: Do it the same way as me, read the written novel first, and then try the graphic adaption. It will be a fun read if you like odd brash stories with a touch of the occult.
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