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A review by stadkison
From Hell by Alan Moore
5.0
Wow. What a piece. Dense, layered, full of a mixture of fact and fiction. If you are interested, it’s all helpfully lain out in the extensive Appendices.
Alan Moore casts upon the Jack the Ripper murders his visions of magic, time, (psycho)geography, and history, casting it as the major occult ritual that pushed the 19th century into the 20th. Eddie Campbell lovingly realizes this world full of freaks, monsters, eccentrics, and ordinary people. His art is itself dense, but when he steps back and shows you the psychically hostile architecture of London, it is moving beyond all measure. His lettering really adds a lived-in feeling. All the characters, even the ones beyond comprehension, feel like real people.
Alan Moore casts upon the Jack the Ripper murders his visions of magic, time, (psycho)geography, and history, casting it as the major occult ritual that pushed the 19th century into the 20th. Eddie Campbell lovingly realizes this world full of freaks, monsters, eccentrics, and ordinary people. His art is itself dense, but when he steps back and shows you the psychically hostile architecture of London, it is moving beyond all measure. His lettering really adds a lived-in feeling. All the characters, even the ones beyond comprehension, feel like real people.