Why Are You Doing This?
Jason
Fantagraphics Books
In this deadpan, Hitchcock-meets-Jarmusch thriller, a moody  twenty-something wallowing in post-breakup depression finds himself  drawn into a paranoid's worst nightmare after his best friend is  murdered and the blame is pinned on him.Imagine a long-forgotten, never-produced Alfred Hitchcock "wrong man"  thriller screenplay discovered, adapted and filmed by a modern  minimalist like Jim Jarmusch and you'll have some idea of the unique  flavor of Jason's latest graphic novel. The protagonist, a moody  twenty-something wallowing in depression after a breakup with his  long-time girlfriend, finds himself drawn into a paranoid's worst  nightmare after his best friend is murdered and the blame is pinned on  him. With the help of a single mother who spontaneously throws in her  lot with him (not to mention her precocious daughter), he sets out to  clear his name. Soon new relationships are forged, dark secrets from  the past are revealed, and the real killer comes back into the  picture...with a vengeance.