Revolver is a graphic novel created, written, and drawn by Matt Kindt. It was first published in a hardcover format by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics in July 2010. Kindt's intent was to craft a comic book story in a way that made it unfilmable. Images were created using only blue and brown lines. In the story, Sam is a man who lives each day twice: first in a normal world, and then again in an alternate world which is suffering many types of disasters simultaneously. Sam finds some commonalities between the two worlds and must eventually choose which one to live in. Critics drew comparisons between Revolver and popular films and novels like Inception and Fight Club. Opinions were mixed in regards to both the story and the art, and critics were divided on whether or not the execution of Revolver was an improvement over Kindt's previous published works. Publication history Prior to creating Revolver, Matt Kindt had been a designer for Sporting News and had published comic work with Top Shelf Productions (Pistolwhip, Super Spy) and Dark Horse Comics (3 Story). The idea for this story came from Kindt's general fascination with the end of the world, and specifically from imagining if terrible news stories about the economy, diseases, and natural disasters all occurred at the same time. He said that he “long[s] to be transported to another time and place that feels real." Some of his former co-workers make appearances in the story. When crafting the plot, Kindt was trying to combine elements from the 1993 film Groundhog Day with the 1999 film Fight Club. It was Kindt's first work set in the modern era instead of the past, and also his first work focused on a single character. Kindt set the story in St. Louis and Kansas City because he felt it needed to be in the Midwestern United States to fit the story's themes. Kindt tried to explore the comic medium in ways that would make the story unfilmable. His page layouts use a steady grid with three tiers. The story was paced like a webcomic, with each page telling a clear piece of the story. Late in the project, Kindt decided to incorporate a news ticker into his page numbers. At the bottom of each page, a line of text unrelated to the action on the page provided background information on the setting.