I didn't actually like Parasite as a movie, but they put this out with the words "graphic novel" on the cover, and I felt compelled to check it out from the library.

Well, first up, it's not really a graphic novel by my definition. The full script of the movie is typeset and wraps around or weaves through a bunch of roughly sketched little storyboard rectangles stacked over each other down the side or middle of each page.

The weird thing is that I liked the story better this way. All the characters are still quite off-putting as in the film -- an unlikable, impoverished family cons their way into working as servants for an odd rich family, an allegorical infestation of roaches in their sterile mansion -- but the soft-focus of the sketches made me hate them all a little less.

It was interesting to follow along with the book while streaming the film for a little while. But the movie quickly started to bug me again, so I stopped that. ( )