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From Hell #2
From Hell: Volume two
Book by Moore, Alan
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
8 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Alan Moore
1,578 books21.7k followersAlan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
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July 9, 2024
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April 16, 2023
(Zero spoiler review for the entire graphic novel) 4.75/5
From Hell is the kind of graphic novel the medium was intended to create. it is also the kind of graphic novel that could never ever be created again nowadays. Moore's other most well known works garner more critical acclaim then From Hell, although in its scope and surgical analysis of the Jack the Ripper murders, nothing else he has done even comes close to this weighty tome. I love a good horror comic, though the comic book doesn't exactly lend itself to telling a scary story in the best possible way. Or maybe its that most modern horror comics are disappointing snooze fests. But From Hell eschews a disturbing, almost giddying paranoia that continues to build and build throughout the entire novel, right up to its terrific climax and appendices. If modern horror is nothing but inane jumps scares that do nothing to build the narrative or tension, then this is a throwback to a terrifying past, when creators and artists where far more adept at creating something worthy of invoking a sense of primordial unease, dread even. The main protagonist in this book, Dr Gull, a respected surgeon and doctor to the Queen is a creation the likes of Hannibal Lector. Intelligent and unnerving, but also frightfully brutal too. It is a character study more than anything else, and every character is original and memorable. From the in over his head police chief who is tasked to solve the murders, the aspiring coachmen who fall sin with Gull, and soon comes to regret it, to the kindly yet doomed prostitutes who are the fodder for his desires. This book is long, some might even say ponderous, Yet every piece of this is pure genius the likes of which has rarely been seen in this medium, or any other. Perhaps its my interest (not an active interest) in the occult and the secret societies that Moore goes into gat deal to highlight and dissect throughout the story, but the book itself exposes so much of London's Freemasonic history, that I was routinely gobsmacked by how Much Moore knew, and was giving away throughout this story. Yes, the drawing s can be crude, and the lettering is scratchy, but that only further adds to its charm. Once you get used to it, I can't imagine it any other way. The coloured version came out shortly after I bought my hardcover copy, and I'm very interested to see how it turns out. This is Moore's masterpiece right here. This is a true study in the unsettling and darker aspects of humanity, and what or who drives us to do unspeakable things. Not everyone will like this book as much as me, but you owe it to yourself to at least give it a try. 4.75/5
OmniBen.
From Hell is the kind of graphic novel the medium was intended to create. it is also the kind of graphic novel that could never ever be created again nowadays. Moore's other most well known works garner more critical acclaim then From Hell, although in its scope and surgical analysis of the Jack the Ripper murders, nothing else he has done even comes close to this weighty tome. I love a good horror comic, though the comic book doesn't exactly lend itself to telling a scary story in the best possible way. Or maybe its that most modern horror comics are disappointing snooze fests. But From Hell eschews a disturbing, almost giddying paranoia that continues to build and build throughout the entire novel, right up to its terrific climax and appendices. If modern horror is nothing but inane jumps scares that do nothing to build the narrative or tension, then this is a throwback to a terrifying past, when creators and artists where far more adept at creating something worthy of invoking a sense of primordial unease, dread even. The main protagonist in this book, Dr Gull, a respected surgeon and doctor to the Queen is a creation the likes of Hannibal Lector. Intelligent and unnerving, but also frightfully brutal too. It is a character study more than anything else, and every character is original and memorable. From the in over his head police chief who is tasked to solve the murders, the aspiring coachmen who fall sin with Gull, and soon comes to regret it, to the kindly yet doomed prostitutes who are the fodder for his desires. This book is long, some might even say ponderous, Yet every piece of this is pure genius the likes of which has rarely been seen in this medium, or any other. Perhaps its my interest (not an active interest) in the occult and the secret societies that Moore goes into gat deal to highlight and dissect throughout the story, but the book itself exposes so much of London's Freemasonic history, that I was routinely gobsmacked by how Much Moore knew, and was giving away throughout this story. Yes, the drawing s can be crude, and the lettering is scratchy, but that only further adds to its charm. Once you get used to it, I can't imagine it any other way. The coloured version came out shortly after I bought my hardcover copy, and I'm very interested to see how it turns out. This is Moore's masterpiece right here. This is a true study in the unsettling and darker aspects of humanity, and what or who drives us to do unspeakable things. Not everyone will like this book as much as me, but you owe it to yourself to at least give it a try. 4.75/5
OmniBen.
September 5, 2022
It's here that the series starts to get truly mystical and apocalyptic - including an elaborate tour of hidden Freemason symbols in London architecture that make Dan Brown's books look like pamphlets. The villain lays out his cosmic vision of a battle between the sexes that is bizarre, nothing like what William Gull actually believed - but that's not the point. What Moore's aiming for is a semi-plausible conspiracy theory that allows him to deploy interesting ideas about the mysogyny at the heart of the Jack the Ripper killings. We get the foundation for something strange, what Moore later called "an apocalyptic summary of the Victorian age" that become more haunting and clever as the series continues.
September 10, 2015
Toisessa osassa päästään vauhtiin kunnolla.
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