Dylan Dog Ristampa n. 25: Morgana

Dylan Dog #25

by Tiziano Sclavi, Angelo Stano (Illustrator), Claudio Villa (Cover)

È stata sepolta, ma è ancora viva... Un mondo di sogni e di incubi, questo è l’universo di Morgana. Ora quella dimensione di morte vuole fondersi con la nostra realtà e Madame Trelkovski, medium infallibile, è in allarme. Per Dylan Dog un arabesco di morte e di bellezza, di follia e di amore, che passa per le pagine di un fumetto e cade tra le braccia di Xabaras il negromante.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Italian Literature, Graphic Novels Comics

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1988

About the author

Tiziano 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.

Reviews

[George K.]

Πολύ παράξενη και αρκετά σουρεαλιστική η ιστορία (υποθέτω κάτι αναμενόμενο μιας και μιλάμε για τον Ντύλαν Ντογκ), ενώ το σχέδιο σκληρό και έντονο, γεμάτο σκηνές που μένουν στο μυαλό του αναγνώστη. Είναι η πρώτη ασπρόμαυρη ιστορία του Ντύλαν Ντογκ που διαβάζω, και δηλώνω απόλυτα γοητευμένος. Ωραίο το χρώμα, αλλά και το ασπρόμαυρο σχέδιο έχει τη δική του χάρη.

[Michael]

Was ist Realität, was Traum in dieser Episode? Aber nein, alles findet ja nur in einem Comic statt, dessen Zeichner sich echte, lebendige Leser anstelle der Zombies wünscht, die draußen die Straßen unsicher machen!
Sclavi schießt in dieser Episode aus allen Rohren, die Story ist surreal, absurd und reichlich meta (tatsächlich musste ich, was die reine Handlung angeht, an Crepax VALENTINA denken); solche Episoden sind es, die Umberto Eco geliebt haben wird.

Ist Morgana lebendig begraben und träumt, in einem Zug zu sitzen? Oder schläft sie im Zug und träumt, lebendig begraben zu sein? Oder hat Xarabas aus Heft 7 Morgana auf Dylan angesetzt, um diesen zurück nach Undead, Schottland, zu bringen? Ist Xarabas Dylans Vater?
Fragen über Fragen, die sich stellen, und Sclavi verdirbt sie nicht durch Antworten.
Wollte man Klarheit, bräuchte es eine Erklärung von der Brillianz von Stephens Hamlet-Theorie im ULYSSES:
"It is quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet’s grandson is Shakespeare’s grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father."

Das einzige Panel, das mir nicht absurd vorkam, zeigt einen Zombie als Schaffner im Zug, der Morgana und Dylan freundlich eine Erfrischung anbietet. Denn eins steht fest:
Unfreundlicher als das Personal der Deutschen Bahn AG ist niemand, nicht einmal Zombies.



(Und hier war ein Liebhaber am Werk; sieht auch in Farbe ganz ordentlich aus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJap...)

[Frédéric]

A 100% meta dark and romantic story, as Sclavi writes so well.
Little treat of q comic book within a comic book, with Angelo Stano himself as the illustrator of said comic book! (With an obvious tribute to Reed Crandall, by the way).

Sclavi at his best, Stano on art—for me, it's all good. Given the direct connection, I highly, highly recommend reading Dylan Dog #1 though.

[Recensioni in tre parole]

Romantico. Folle. Onirico.

[Matteo]

Morgana finisce sepolta viva.. ma è la realtà oppure un sogno? E come mai gli zombie spuntano come funghi in autunno? Chi o cosa c’è dietro tutto questo? Dylan Dog cerca di venire a capo di tutta questa faccenda, sentendosi misteriosamente innamorato.. ma di chi?

Sorta di episodio sequel de “L’alba dei morti viventi”, lo storico primo numero del fumetto di Tiziano Sclavi. “Morgana” riprende il tema del paranormale e degli zombie affamati di carne umana. Ritornano le citazioni a George A. Romero e a tutto un certo tipo di letteratura e cinema horror/gotico. Non riuscitissimo quanto il seminale prequel, ma ugualmente avvincente.

[Berna Labourdette]

Desde junio me puse a leer los primeros cómics de Dylan Dog y dentro de todos los que he leído hasta ahora, ésta es una belleza que mezcla amor fou, zombies, fin del mundo, mitología celta, historias dentro de historias y por supuesto la némesis de Dylan Dog, Xabaras moviendo los hilos y explicándonos por única vez porqué Dylan es un mujeriego. Es una historia muy bien armada y muy triste. 

[Daken Howlett]

Morgana è uno dei personaggi più affascinanti ed enigmatici introdotti nella serie,e in questa apparizione Tiziano Sclavi riesce a tratteggiare un personaggio drammatico e sorprendente,destinato a diventare uno dei fulcri della mitologia di Dylan Dog per molti anni a venire.

[Titus]

This was my first taste of the “Dylan Dog” series. It’s an early instalment, the 25th volume, originally published in 1988, when the comics were still scripted by series creator Tiziano Sclavi. It’s also one of the few volumes drawn by Angelo Stano, who notably drew the very first volume and was the series’s main cover artist for 25 years. As such, it seemed like a good place to start.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. The series has a similar premise to “Hellblazer” (or, to a lesser extent, “Hellboy”), following a London-based occult detective who fights supernatural threats. Each volume is a complete, largely self-contained story, and this one employs a kind of psychological horror that appeals to me a lot, based around people stuck in a dreamlike haze, unable to tell what’s real or not. I find insanity scarier than probably anything else, so I find its use in horror very effective, and the execution here is trippy and mind-bending in a thoroughly compelling way. I did find the volume’s ending a bit underwhelming, as it centres around expository revelations about the protagonist’s backstory, and I also didn't get much from the comic relief peppered throughout the volume, but neither of those things detracted too much from my enjoyment. I certainly liked this more than any of the “Hellblazer” I've read.

At the end of the day, this is solid, entertaining pulp – and with very nice black-and-white artwork to boot. I’m not inspired to go out and collect the whole series, but if I were able to get volumes for €5 each from newsstands and grocery shops – as is the case in Italy – I'm sure I'd do so on occasion, to read during a flight or a train journey, for example.

[Margot]

Albo bellissimo!
Un metafumetto che in alcuni punti talvolta lascia il lettore in un totale mindfuck.
Fra la Trelkovski e Morgana e il ritorno di Xabaras, non si può dire che questo non sia un numero memorabile.
Stano, a parer mio, ha creato delle ottime tavole che, d’altro canto, si pongono nella medesima scia di quelle del primo, mitico numero di Dylan Dog.

Non sarebbe male, a parer mio, se la miniserie su Dylan Dog (nella speranza che non resti miniserie e vada oltre la prima stagione), iniziasse con L’alba dei morti viventi e si concludesse con Morgana. Speriamo che la produzione di James Wan (che purtroppo non sarà dietro la cinepresa, lui che è un ottimo regista di film horror) renda giustizia all’indagatore dell’incubo!

[Elsa]

Nonostante di solito non apprezzi granché i disegni di Stano, in questo numero contribuiscono all'atmosfera e si accordano perfettamente alla particolarità della storia. Ci sono tanti aspetti interessanti e la sensazione trasmessa è veramente surreale, come sottolineano più volte anche i personaggi. Il volume ti lascia davvero qualcosa, il che non è affatto scontato, né semplice. Vale veramente la pena di leggerlo.

[Samuele Sposito]

Un album fondamentale per chiunque volesse scoprire un po’ di più sull’indagatore dell’incubo.

Una storia interessante.

Bei disegni, seppur personalmente non trovo di mio completo gradimento come viene ritratta Morgana, scelta stilistica e con un senso, quello non lo metto in dubbio.

L’altra cosa che non mi è piaciuta, e qui sarò forse l’unico è la metanarrazione presente nel fumetto.

3.5

[Arsnoctis]

Un buon metafumetto con gli zombie, ma in questo caso non posso dire di aver adorato le tavole di Stano. Indubbiamente un numero significativo di DD citato spesso altrove e che fa da collante con altri numeri noti (1 e 19 tanto per fare due esempi).

[Christer Lindvall]

A longer review is coming
7/10

[ire]

eh la speranza è proprio l'ultima a morire

[Celebandùne]

7.5/10

Morgana is a weird story, a dreamy one for sure, and one that tries repeatedly to break the fourth wall in a very unique way. A girl, said Morgana, travels to London, while Dylan Dog is invited to spiritual sitting by Miss Trelkovski. During this spiritual sitting, a guy named Reed, who writes and creates a version of the Dylan Dog comics in one of the universes we see during this issue, is the medium and the person who not only has seen Morgana, but he also seems to experience parallel universes. While Morgana experiences a London of a possible future in which the zombies have won, Dylan attends the session and sees a crazed Reed become a zombie after a nightmare in the possible future. Confused and lovesick, Dylan drives home and almost hits Morgana with his car, after she devoured the escaped Reed. Morgana then travels with Dylan to Inverness and to Undead, where he meets again with Xabaras and finds out that Morgana was one of his zombies. And, on top of that, Dylan's love from three hundred years ago. Dylan fails to believe him and cuts his head off with a sword. Then Morgana appears and the still talking Xabaras reveals that the body Dylan saw was but a fading illusion. Startled and confused, Dylan does not know what to do, when Morgana cuts Dylan's wrist and with his blood gives Xabaras a new body. She is then hit by a knife through the heart and, even if not dead, feels sleepy and wants to rest. Xabaras calls Dylan his son, and while going away warns Dylan not to cross his path again. A confused Dylan kisses and cries Morgana to sleep, while a somehow alive Reed draws the last page of a comic book that looks like the alternate future in which zombies have won.

A very weird story, honestly, but not a bad one, just one that is hard to follow. What does it mean? Who is Morgana, also called Morgana Le Fey by Xabaras? What does it mean, she is a girl from 300 years ago that Dylan loved? So many questions, of which Reed seems to be proud of, that somehow seem to go nowhere. Is this story even real? Did it even happen or was it just a dream by Morgana?
I guess only future issues will be able to tell...

[Jeane]

Dylan Dog wordt altijd verliefd op zijn klanten, maar dat hij zich zo verliefd voelt als nooit voordien gebeurd is...op iemand die hij nog niet ontmoet, is weer typisch! Morgana dwaalt door de stad en heeft enorme honger, plus ze zoekt naar iemand die Dylan Dog heet maar nooit heeft ontmoet. Een stripverhaal wordt ook gevonden op plaatsen en loopt niet goed af. Maar lezen we nu het stripverhaal of is dit verhaal een deel van een ander verhaal??? Veel, maar toch ook niet, wordt duidelijker wanneer Dylan opnieuw Xabaras ontmoet... Een goed verteld verhaal waarin je niet echt begrijpt wat echt is en niet, wat zijn dromen en wat is de realiteit. Een aanrader is om de film die hierop geïnspireerd is, Cemetery man, te bekijken!

[Michel]

Epizoda je klasik. Vrhunski napisana, odličan crtež Sclavia i pojava Xabarasa. Priča počinje dosta konfuzno jer se ne zna što je zbilja, a što san, ali na kraju sve dođe na svoje mjesto. One tri babe su odlični zombiji, a i fora je dio kad Dog čita strip o sebi. Morgana je seksi ženska, nadam se da će se i dalje pojavljivati.

[Matteo Carlevero]

stupendo!

[Juan Fuentes]

4.5
Metaliterario y fascinante. Me dejó con la boca abierta

[Artur Coelho]

Provavelmente, das histórias mais surreais que Sclavi criou para Dylan Dog. Ao longo da aventura, são equilibradas linhas narrativas em confronto que não parecem fazer sentido. Temos Morgana, uma mulher que não sabe que está morta, zombie sobrvivente do fim de Xabaras e das suas experiências de imortalidade. Atraída inexplicavelmente por um certo endereço londrino, parte em direção ao encontro inevitável com Dylan. Ela parece viver em dois mundos, o nosso, e um mundo paralelo onde os zombies dominam e os poucos humanos se rendem à condição de desmemoriados.

Essa dualidade de mundos parece ser a que carateriza Reed Crandall, um personagem secundário discreto que se mantém como um dos fios condutores da história de Morgana. Não o personagem em si, que tem aparições fugazes, mas o que ele faz: desenha uma banda desenhada que replica tudo o que vemos desenrolar-se nas páginas desta história. Um pormenor metaficcional que dá ainda mais estranheza a esta história. Tão meta que a fisionomia deste desenhador é um retrato de Angelo Stano, um dos decanos ilustradores da série.

Finalmente, Dylan, como sempre a funcionar como atrator estranho do que centro narrativo. Sente-se apaixonado por alguém que não conhece, enredado numa trama de augúrios nas sessões espíritas de Madame Trelkovsky, que vislumbra um futuro de ruínas e mortos vivos. O cruzamento com Morgana é inevitável, a paixão já estava anunciada, e no estranho mundo de Dylan Dog a condição de morte não é impedimento para o amor. Mas a personagem precisa de paz, por isso o destino leva-os à Escócia, às ruínas da casa onde o alquimista que se virá a revelar o pai de Dylan fez as suas medonhas experiências. Tudo terminará na campa, onde a morta-viva, na escuridão da tumba, vai dormindo e sonhando.

Nas mãos de outro argumentista, esta história indecisa e fragmentada seria ilegível, nem faria sentido. Mas Sclavi é um mestre da estranheza, do surreal, da coerência do incoerente. Morgana é uma história de profundo lirismo, onde o terror é discreto.