"I hope it makes the audience feel quite uncomfortable."
Stieg Larsson's "Millenium Trilogy" ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played with Fire," and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest) has been adapted into a blockbuster Swedish trilogy of films, while "Tattoo" got a Hollywood adaptation from director David Fincher (the jury's still out on the U.S. sequels). But now, the super-duper-best-sellers have made their inevitable way to comics thanks to Vertigo, who tapped writer Denise Mina as well artists Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti to take the dense text into the funnybooks. Mina, though mostly known for her work in crime fiction had a run in Vertigo's "Hellblazer" from 2006-2007 and "A Sickness in the Family" for the publisher. I caught up with the friendly writer on the phone to chat about Lisbeth, the titular character's status as a hero, making corporate intrigue exciting in a comic book, depicting brutality and more in the first part of the graphic novel adptation of the first book in Larson's trilogy, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
