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From Hell
by Eddie Campbell, Alan Moore
Alan Moore’s From Hell creates such a compelling and logical scenario that the reader feels Moore MUST have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper’s identity and motivations. (Moore himself says a hundred other theories are just as likely.) But in the hands of a self-proclaimed sorcerer like Moore, language can create new realities. As a self-proclaimed psychic admits in the prologue, “I made it all up, but it came true anyway.” From Hell is a story for the “me too”/Trump era — a bone-dry and blood-wet procedural concerning a conspiracy to commit (and cover up) misogynist violence against society’s most vulnerable in the service of the power structure. Some may be put off by the occult elements of the story, especially its epilogue, but there is plenty here for the left-brained among us. One complaint: Moore missed an opportunity to explore the contradiction of one of history’s greatest woman-haters operating under the direction of one of history’s most powerful women. Other than that, it’s virtually perfect!