Playing mostly like a straightforward true crime documentary about the murder of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield, draped in American flags and macho imagery, this graphic novel makes little digs at the character of Kyle as well as his widow as it builds toward a condemnation of American masculinity, gun culture, celebrity worship, and mental health care. It's sort of subversive, like a prank on Chris Kyle devotees, and I wonder if the subtleties will be lost on some of that audience.

Mostly, though I was bored by the storytelling, with its long recreations of TV interviews and television commercials, usually featuring the same static talking heads copy and pasted repeatedly on page after page. The stylized art is not particularly good at capturing likenesses but it didn't really become a problem for me until we're told to believe this is Bradley Cooper:
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