Powracające koszmary senne nie dają spokoju Whitleyowi Davisowi, specjaliście do spraw ufologii. Zwraca się z prośbą o pomoc do Dylana Doga, detektywa mroku. Davis niechętnie wyznaje, że źródłem jego przerażenia mogą być kosmici. Dylan Dog, mimo odrobinę sarkastycznej reakcji początkowej, postanawia podjąć się próby rozwikłania tajemnicy strachu Davisa. Zaczyna od sesji stricte psychoterapeutycznej...
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.
Možda najpotresnija epizoda Dylana Doga koju sam čitao u zadnjih par mjeseci intenzivnog čitanja Dylan Dog serijala. Na prvo čitanje, prije par godina, mi nije uopće sjela - očigledno nisam razumio o čemu se zapravo radi, i što je uopće taj užas beskonačnosti u naslovu stripa. No, sada znam dobro da se radi o podsvijesti i svemu što u njoj čuči. Uz epizodu "Jezero na nebu" još jedna priča u kojoj Sclavi očigledno prazni teret vlastitog iskustva psihoanalize, ali i katarzu.
"Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia" w wersji Sclaviego. Całość pięknie pokręcona, choć po "Cagliostro" i "Golkodznie!" każda kolejna część wydaje się trochę zbyt poważna. Brakuje mi tego groteskowego charakteru.
In this Dylan Dog issue we follow the odd psychoanalysis of one Whitley Davies, a middle-aged reporter who has been abducted by aliens. As usual, Dylan Dog questions his report at first, yet still investigates, and tries to use his old friend and Medium doctor Bronsky to hypnotize Whitley and figure out what is really going on; are these visits by aliens real or are they an imaginative plot to forget some of his childhood traumas?
The story is not too bad, but also nothing to write home about, and the plot about a murder in Whitley's childhood results somewhat more interesting than the story about the aliens itself. While the storytelling approach is good, it is definitely not one of the strongest Dylan Dog stories out there.