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Dylan Dog #56
Dylan Dog n. 56: Ombre
Nel bosco di Shin, le chiome degli alberi danzano nel vento e la notte si popola di sussurri e di... ombre. Sono neri spettri senza padrone e senza corpo, forme oscure animate dall’odio. Chi ha dato vita a questi bizzarri orrori? Perché uccidono i bambini? Il sensitivo Georg Roll conosce le risposte, ma non può confidarle a nessuno. Neppure a se stesso.
98 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Tiziano Sclavi
667 books192 followersTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book and novel writer, who has also worked as a journalist. Sclavi is most famous for creating the Italian bestselling comic Dylan Dog, started in 1986 and still ongoing, a horror pastiche featuring a paranormal investigator. More than 450 monthly 90-pages long issues have appeared in the series, with Sclavi as the most recurrent script writer in the first decade of serialisation.
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October 17, 2023
7.5/10
"Ombre", Shadows, is a nice issue about how shadows escape into this reality and start to seemingly massacre kids around the town of Shin, near London. Dylan is with his current girlfriend Jo, and gets a letter directed at him, where he notices the murder of a young boy dressed like Red Riding Hood had been predicted. He tells Bloch, but only a second killing is needed until Scotland Yard activates on the case. Dylan has no idea who the murderer is, but a third letter is suspicious. The murderer, aparently, means to hit Dylan at his heart. And this alerts him, and makes him aware of Jo's own son, who is in Shin right in that moment...
Shadows's story is a bit chaotic, with some minor characters who once again could become more, but are eventually left with a lot of unused potential. While the case gets solved in typical Dylan Dog fashion, with a presumed killer who gets killed accidentally, before it is resolved that he wasn't the killer at all, and another killer who then could possibly be the killer, but the last picture shows he wasn't really. The chaos is a deterrent factor, the weird ending isn't great either, but the idea of the issue makes somewhat up for it.
A good story.
"Ombre", Shadows, is a nice issue about how shadows escape into this reality and start to seemingly massacre kids around the town of Shin, near London. Dylan is with his current girlfriend Jo, and gets a letter directed at him, where he notices the murder of a young boy dressed like Red Riding Hood had been predicted. He tells Bloch, but only a second killing is needed until Scotland Yard activates on the case. Dylan has no idea who the murderer is, but a third letter is suspicious. The murderer, aparently, means to hit Dylan at his heart. And this alerts him, and makes him aware of Jo's own son, who is in Shin right in that moment...
Shadows's story is a bit chaotic, with some minor characters who once again could become more, but are eventually left with a lot of unused potential. While the case gets solved in typical Dylan Dog fashion, with a presumed killer who gets killed accidentally, before it is resolved that he wasn't the killer at all, and another killer who then could possibly be the killer, but the last picture shows he wasn't really. The chaos is a deterrent factor, the weird ending isn't great either, but the idea of the issue makes somewhat up for it.
A good story.
June 27, 2020
3.5 stars
August 13, 2016
I've read the German edition "Dylan Dog - Schatten"
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