''The Killer'' (''Le Tueur'') is a French comic book by writer

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and artist

Luc Jacamon Luc or LUC may refer to: Places * Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, a commune * Luc, Lozère, France, a commune * Le Luc, France, a commune * Luč, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement People and fictional characters * Luc (given name) * Luc (surname) ...

which follows the life of an initially unnamed

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Publication history

The series was published in 12 albums by

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. It was translated into English and published by

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, who turned each album into 2

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Publications

The French albums from

are: * ''Long feu'' (October 1998) * ''L'engrenage'' (April 2000) * ''La dette'' (August 2001) * ''Les liens du sang'' (August 2002) * ''La mort dans l’âme'' (October 2003) * ''Modus Vivendi'' (September 2007) * ''Le commun des mortels'' (August 2009) * ''L'ordre naturel des choses'' (June 2010) * ''Concurrence déloyale'' (March 2011) * ''Le cœur à l'ouvrage'' (January 2012) * ''La suite dans les idées'' (January 2013) * ''La main qui nourrit'' (November 2013)

Collected editions

''Volume One'' (collects ''The Killer'' #1-4: "Long Fire" and "Vicious Cycle", hardcover, 128 pages, September 2007, ) ''Volume Two'' (collects ''The Killer'' #5-10: "The Debt", "Blood Ties", and "The Killer Instinct", hardcover, 176 pages, March 2010, ) ''Volume Three'' (collects: "Modus Vivendi", "Ordinary Mortals" and "The Natural Order Of Things", hardcover, 176 pages, February 2011, ) ''Volume Four'' (collects: "Unfair Competition", and "Putting Your Heart In It", hardcover, 128 pages, April 2013, ) ''Volume Five'' (collects: "One Track Mind", and "Fight or flight", hardcover, 128 pages, February 2017, )

Awards

The Volume One collected edition won "Best Indy Book" in

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's Best of 2007. The edition also won "Best Comic You Didn’t Read This Year" from

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and was nominated for " Best U.S. Edition of International Material" in the 2008

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Film adaptation

The series is being made into a film by

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which will be directed by

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. In February 2021, it was announced that Fincher has moved the project to

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with news that

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will write the script.

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is in talks to star in the film. Production began in November 2021.

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will costar.

Notes

References

*
''Le Tueur''
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External links

Matz at Casterman

The Killer
at the official

website.
Preview of ''The Killer'' #1

Review of The Killer

The Complete The Killer: The Craft of Pasting Ethics Over Action

Interviews

Matz Narks on ''The Killer''
The Pulse,

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, June 6, 2006 Works about Colombian drug cartels