Graphic Novel: Road Rage

Graphic Novel: Road Rage by Joe Hill, Stephen King, and Richard Matheson.

Road Rage is a mature graphic novel that contains two separate stories, although similar by setting and situation, they have different narratives.

Throttle is the first story in Road Rage and it's written by Joe Hill and Stephen King. Compared to the second story in the book, the look and narrative is quite different. Throttle has a very "traditional" graphic novel and comic book look to it and we are given more context to the characters, as in the story is a bit deeper in comparison to the other in Road Rage. Throttle follows a motorcycle gang in conflict with a very angry truck driver that mercilessly takes out the gang's members. Later in the story we find out that the truck driver is actually the father of a young girl that was killed by one of the gang's members. So in the end, you're kind of rooting for the "bad guy" in the story - even though he dies in the end by the motorcycle gang's doings.

The second story in Road Rage is Duel by Richard Matheseon. Compared to Throttle, Duel's style looks less like a comic and more illustrative with a limited pallet and unique art style. Unlike Throttle, we don't know much about the main character at all and he has no relation to the truck driver (who is never named or seen) that is chasing him. Thus, the story leaves us with questions in the end. Like why was the main character being perused and was there a driver behind the truck or was it just the truck itself.

Looking and comparing the contrasting elements of both stories are kind of interesting.