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mayhappily 's review for:
Jack the Ripper: Hellblade, Volume 1
by Je-Tae Yoo
I'm being slightly generous in giving this 4 stars, I would rather be able to give it 3.5.
I love the Victorian era and I'm incredibly fascinated by both murderers in general and Jack the Ripper, among others, in particular (the fact that his identity is still, to this day, unknown is both maddening and part of what makes it so intriguing).
I'm also a huge fan of horror so the combination should be - and to a certain extent is - the perfect union.
Making Jack the unlikely hero is something I'm a little torn about: I really do like this Jack, but I can't entirely shake the feeling of "wrongness" - after all, there is little doubt that the original Jack the Ripper was anything other than a monster.
Even so, the story of Hell Blade is genuinely interesting - and the art is pretty horrifying, which is a big plus in my book!
That which I take issue with, is the mixing in of so many different historical, both fictional and real, characters, such as Nikola Tesla, Sherlock Holmes & Mr Hyde among others. Also the depiction of some of them (Sherlock Holmes and Watson in particular - I know that not even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock was born a middle aged man, but seeing him as a young, barely twenty-something, feels very odd and off for me) bothers me.
While the art, as I've already mentioned, is really good, it becomes slightly confusing at times to keep track of what's happening, especially in some of the more intense and action-filled scenes.
Overall, I'm sold, but there are some things that bothers me enough to subtract half a star.
I love the Victorian era and I'm incredibly fascinated by both murderers in general and Jack the Ripper, among others, in particular (the fact that his identity is still, to this day, unknown is both maddening and part of what makes it so intriguing).
I'm also a huge fan of horror so the combination should be - and to a certain extent is - the perfect union.
Making Jack the unlikely hero is something I'm a little torn about: I really do like this Jack, but I can't entirely shake the feeling of "wrongness" - after all, there is little doubt that the original Jack the Ripper was anything other than a monster.
Even so, the story of Hell Blade is genuinely interesting - and the art is pretty horrifying, which is a big plus in my book!
That which I take issue with, is the mixing in of so many different historical, both fictional and real, characters, such as Nikola Tesla, Sherlock Holmes & Mr Hyde among others. Also the depiction of some of them (Sherlock Holmes and Watson in particular - I know that not even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock was born a middle aged man, but seeing him as a young, barely twenty-something, feels very odd and off for me) bothers me.
While the art, as I've already mentioned, is really good, it becomes slightly confusing at times to keep track of what's happening, especially in some of the more intense and action-filled scenes.
Overall, I'm sold, but there are some things that bothers me enough to subtract half a star.