From hell

I like the way this meanders around its subject and ponders things like “why do people write hoax letters pretending that they are serial killers” ... I wouldn't read it ahead of Miracleman or Watchmen as far as the other Moore works I've read, but I was intrigued when I heard the Chapo interview where he discussed the church at Spitalfields.

Je n'aime pas abandonner une lecture, surtout quand il s'agit d'une œuvre acclamée par la critique (des professionnels et des lectures). Mais je me suis profondément ennuyé pendant le premiers tiers de cette bande dessinée que j'ai péniblement lu depuis hier. Alan Moore et Eddie Campbell proposent leur vision des crimes de Jack l'Eventreur et de l'Angleterre victorienne, mais je n'y ai pas été sensible. Dommage ...

Food for thought for sure, From Hell is a complex piece of work with many layers of human emotions, expressions, and delusions.

One thing I particularly like about Alan Moore is his all-pervading kindness to everyone he presents in his works, both villains and heroes, victims and criminals.

So, we see Sir William Gull— a genius, a murderer, deranged to many but sure of his superiority only found his true nature of derangement and inferiority in his visit to a higher plain.

There are some memorable panels and monologues that will keep me thinking for quite a while.



Although Moore used Hinton's fourth dimension as a central concept of this work, he— probably with his modern sense of four-dimensional space understood the fourth dimension as time, whereas Hinton's was an Euclidean one. However, he bridged that with modern spacetime and created such panels like the above.

A masterpiece!