By Zack Quaintance — The Butcher of Paris is one of those comics that is so in line with my personal tastes, that I can’t help but wonder if I conjured it. Okay, that’s maybe a little solipsistic (maybe!?!), but I did like quite a bit about this book before I’d even read the first page. What hooked me first was the concept. This is a rare monthly comic based on a true story (more of those, please!), and not just any true story, but one from a key moment in world history.