Written by Michael Calero
Drawn by Piotr Kowalski
Published by Sumerian Comics/Massive Publishing
PREVIOUSLY: American Psycho #1
First, it’s now clearer that this miniseries follows the events of the movie, not the novel. Although, the writer does get some sequences of some of the events from the movie wrong.
The big plot twist of the first episode is that Donald Kimble, the private detective who was hired to investigate the disappearance of Patrick Bateman’s colleague, Paul Allen, whom Patrick chopped to death with an axe, in a truly iconic film scene, was not actually a private detective. It’s unclear what his job is, if he even has one, but instead, he was a psycho himself. He was obsessed with some random woman and was stalking her, building up to the time when he would finally attack her. But to his surprise, while following her one night, he sees her meet Patrick and follows them as she goes home with him to his apartment, where, after having sex, Patrick brutally murders her. Kimble watched all of this through a window. Since then, he has switched his obsession from that woman to Patrick.
Kimble stalked Patrick for months, watching him with coworkers and friends, on dates, and killing victims. He even inexplicably managed to break into Patrick’s apartment on the night when Patrick brought a drunken Paul Allen home and was hiding in a closet watching as Patrick hacked Paul to death. It was after this that Kimble decided that he needed to finally make contact and began to prepare to meet Patrick in person.
The rest of the issue flashes forward to 2011, when Charlene Carruthers wakes up in her apartment, alone, with someone else’s blood all over the sheets and very little memory of what happened the night before. As she’s trying to piece together what happened, two police detectives knock on her door. They found her ID next to the dead body of the man who tried to rape her at the club last night. But she honestly doesn’t know anything about that. They leave, with Charlene being more confused than ever, as both she and us, the readers, are left wondering if maybe she has some kind of murderous split-personality.
So far, I’m more interested in the Kimble story, as it’s an intriguing take on the film, and I’m still waiting to see how it ties into the Charlene story, and where that goes.
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