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  • Un fottuto capolavoro

  • Basterebbe la scena in cui Alan Moore fa coincidere temporalmente il primo delitto di Jack lo Squartatore con il concepimento di Adolf Hitler.

    O il tour esoterico di Londra del Dottor Gull.

    Un fumetto incredibile, complesso, accurato, profondo, geniale, da leggere e studiare.

    E ... Continue

    Basterebbe la scena in cui Alan Moore fa coincidere temporalmente il primo delitto di Jack lo Squartatore con il concepimento di Adolf Hitler.

    O il tour esoterico di Londra del Dottor Gull.

    Un fumetto incredibile, complesso, accurato, profondo, geniale, da leggere e studiare.

    E poi i disegni nervosi di Campbell sono meravigliosi.

    

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  • ci sono la ricerca e la ricostruzione storica; le passeggiate esoteriche infarcite di architettura, storia massonica e discorsi sui massimi sistemi d'organizzazione universale; i disegni di Campbell, come nervi scoperti sulla pagina; e poi c'è Jack the Ripper, che Moore ingegnosamente e brillantemen ... Continue

    ci sono la ricerca e la ricostruzione storica; le passeggiate esoteriche infarcite di architettura, storia massonica e discorsi sui massimi sistemi d'organizzazione universale; i disegni di Campbell, come nervi scoperti sulla pagina; e poi c'è Jack the Ripper, che Moore ingegnosamente e brillantemente allegorizza a mo' di spirito patrono del XX secolo (il viaggio nel tempo, con Jack esultante di fronte alla Torre, son tre pagine di una potenza, e di un'angoscia, assolute). Spassosissimo poi il saggio finale, sempre di Moore, in cui viene dato conto di tutta la storiografia (seria e meno) inerente lo Squartatore.

    

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  • Filosofando

  • Non so quante decine di volte l'ho aperto. E' li che mi fissa minaccioso. Lo amo, ma lui è così difficile. Abbiamo solo bisogno di tempo. Anche per questo libro, non esiste bellissimissimo come voto?

    

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  • If only I could give FIVE stars.

  • I decided, not so long ago, not to include comics in my Anobii profile. Not because I don't deem them "good" enough compared to regular books. Most comics are better than regular books. I don't even need to use the politically correct "graphic novels" term. They are comics all right.

    But From ... Continue

    I decided, not so long ago, not to include comics in my Anobii profile. Not because I don't deem them "good" enough compared to regular books. Most comics are better than regular books. I don't even need to use the politically correct "graphic novels" term. They are comics all right.

    But From Hell, which I now had the chance to read in English, makes most other comics pale by comparison. It is so rich, so detailed, with so many layers behind the simple "Jack the Ripper" story, that two readings are the MINIMUM.

    Basing his story on the Stephen Knight royal conspiracy theory, Alan Moore proceeds to narrate a disturbing story, in which the killings, purportedly performed to hide the scandal of an unexpected royal baby, are implemented as a grand Masonic ritual to ensure male dominance over the female aspect of society, well explained by Sir Gull during the tour of London's monumental landmarks, in which he explains Netley, the dumb carriage driver, his insane but ambitious agenda.

    Several famous characters do appearances in the background, from Oscar Wilde to William Blake, even Joseph Merrick (the Elephant Man), not to mention the funny meeting with Aleister Crowley, already depicted as someone who shouldn't be treated lightly, despite being, at the time, just a plump kid sucking on a candy cane.

    Along with Alan Moore's script, Eddie Campbell's nervous drawings are the best possible choice for a story set amidst the grim poverty that afflicted London's East End at the end of the XIX Century.
    This is a such a powerful work that anyone who isn't disturbed by the human mind potential sickness should read it. Twice.

    Oh, and of course the movie is crap.

    

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  • A sally at entrenched power structures in society and their memetic propagation rendered as a Ripping procedural yarn. The occult and non-linear elements brought to the fore in the final chapter do nothing to detract from the visceral, grounded nature of the story although the direct parallel with W ... Continue

    A sally at entrenched power structures in society and their memetic propagation rendered as a Ripping procedural yarn. The occult and non-linear elements brought to the fore in the final chapter do nothing to detract from the visceral, grounded nature of the story although the direct parallel with Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan is unfortunate.

    

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  • Il Capolavoro (dopo le graphic novels di Will Eisner).

    

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Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

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