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Title: FROM HELL by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell ISBN: 0-9585783-4-6 Publisher: Top Shelf Production Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (79 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The ultimate Jack the Ripper novel!
Comment: This is just the first volume of From Hell. To get the whole story, there are nine more volumes to go. All told, you'll spend $50 to get the whole story. It's worth every penny. From Hell does more than just tell the story of Jack the Ripper. It tears apart Victorian London and everything it represents. This is a heavily, heavily researched novel, downright spooky, utterly terrifying at times, and while it's paced very slowly, the impact is like being cut up by old Jack himself. Alan Moore's words are in perfect harmony with Eddie Campbell's illustrations. Illustrations? Oh, didn't I mention that this is a comic book? "Comic book," you ask, shocked. Well, get over it. This is a story that redifines the medium, a graphic novel in every sense of the word. Once you read one chapter, you won't be able to stop until you've read them all. So try volume one. You won't regert it
Rating: 4
Summary: Dark Stuff from England's Mad Genius of Comics
Comment: Alan Moore's From Hell is one of the most complex, dark and disturbing stories put into graphic format. This is a highly speculative and at times fanciful tale based on London's famous "Jack the Ripper" murders of the 1880's. Moore uses an admittedly far-fetched conspiracy theory as the base for this graphic novel which traces involvement in the killings to the English throne itself. The premise is that the killer is the Queen's own physician, Sir William Gull, presented as a kind of mad prophet.
This is not a "whodunit," but is more of a dark meditation on modern times in which the Ripper metaphorically gives birth to the bloody twentieth century. While I strongly disagree with Moore's politics/world-view, his complex fables are intelligently exececuted and thought-provoking. Eddie Campbell's gritty black and white illustrations set the tone. There is much (at times gratuitous)graphicly illustrated sex (of every perverted variety) and violence and this book is not for the faint of heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely amazing
Comment: I was absolutely amazed by the depth and quality of Alan Moore's FROM HELL. I've been reading graphic novels for a little over a year now, and in terms of subtlety, nuance, and overall storytelling, FROM HELL is head and shoulders above anything else I've read. I'm currently reading Moore's WATCHMEN, which also seems to be of equal quality.
I've never experienced anything close to what FROM HELL delivers in the admittedly short time that I've been reading comics. Alan Moore writes with the ear of a novelist and the eye of a portraitist. He packs this well-researched story of the Jack the Ripper murders with a wide and observant representation of life.
This graphic novel isn't just a retelling of the facts of the Jack the Ripper case (though it does an extraordinary job of that). It takes it all to the next level, and examines the reasons for examining such things.
It's not so much a suspense story (you know who the killer is right from the beginning) but rather one of internal discovery. A fascinating work of art and work of literature that should be read by anyone who wants to see just what comics are capable of.
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Title: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563898586 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons ISBN: 0930289234 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 (Comic) by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill ISBN: 1401201172 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd ISBN: 0930289528 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Top Ten (Book 1) by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563896680 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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