From Hell

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The press invents the bogey man Jack the Ripper, the police turn a blind eye, and five women are brutally killed.

Von Anfang an wird um die Hintergründe kein großes Geheimnis gemacht, was der Erzählung ein wenig die Spannung nimmt. They're real women who suffered, struggled, and rolled as best they could with the relentless punches society threw at them. y aquí estoy tres días después poniéndole cinco estrellas y con la cabeza explotada por varios sitios, este es uno de esos extraños casos en que mi experiencia con un cómic de culto supera las expectativas previas.Wer sich als Leser auf dieses Mammutprojekt einlässt, tut gut daran, schon einiges Hintergrundwissen über die Protagonisten und Theorien rund um die Whitechapel Morde zu haben. The last experience his spirit undergoes before it "becomes God" is visiting a woman living in Ireland. One can study the art of the period to the exclusion of all else for a lifetime, and after fifty years, still keep discovering new masters, new styles and forms you've never even heard of before--an embarrassment of riches fathomless to plumb. It is implied that, through his grisly activities, male dominance over femininity is assured, and the 20th century is thus given its dominant form, though Gull finds it disgusting nevertheless.

I'm fine believing our actions have immediate consequences, that we all add our fluttering to the butterfly effect that is constantly shaping the universe. Moore had earlier explored similar ideas in Watchmen, where Doctor Manhattan perceives past, present and future simultaneously, and describes himself as "a puppet who can see the strings". I would recommend this to a broad swathe of readers- from those who would appreciate a true work of art to those who are interested in the Jack the Ripper tale. Allerdings stellt sich die Frage, weshalb er einen Großteil der Informationen nicht gleich in seinen Zeichnungen untergebracht hat, sondern den Leser nötigt sich erst durch die Anmerkungen zu arbeiten. En la superficie, "From Hell" presenta en forma de narración ilustrada los acontecimientos históricos de los asesinatos de Whitechapel en el año 1888, si no me equivoco.But the plan has a flaw because there are other people who know about the child and these women, prostitutes, try to blackmail the prince's friend because they are getting harrassed by a street gang and need money to survive. Someone else said they thought it was 'intentionally unreadable' and I mean that does sound like Moore, but it's still a dick move and awful to read. Weighing in at 576 pages, From Hell is certainly the most epic of Moore's works and remarkably and is possibly his finest effort yet in a career punctuated by such glorious highlights as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who is interested in true crime or murder mysteries.

Four of his ground-breaking graphic novels-- From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--have been adapted to the silver screen. Although to be completely fair, the problem is not really with The Hughes Brothers per se (although as directors of the project, they are the ones ultimately accountable for the finished film); no, the real mess starts right off the bat with the muddled, messy script by Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias, who surprisingly enough have a number of solid movies in their pasts (including Death and the Maiden, Payback, and Mad Max: Road Warrior), so you would think would know better. Y el plato fuerte de esta obra es Alan Moore con su narrativa, con su ambientación, con su imaginación quizá potenciada por alguna sustancia del tipo LSD. Moore's concept was beautifully grand and imprecise, but the end result was a narrative much too narrow to hold it. Everything that we have done since then is merely a rehash of the pure variety and invention developed by those artists.Like many of his other projects, Moore's main theme here in From Hell is actually the complex and hidden patterns that are layered one by one by society onto history, of how these overlapping patterns both work in tandem and against each other, and how in a place like London it results in a 3,000-year-old matrix of power and magic, full of "hot spots" around the city where literally dozens of important events have all transpired over the centuries. Ciñéndose a los hechos como indica con tanta precisión en una extensa serie de notas, al final del libro que son la guinda del pastel, excepción de alguna una invención ficticia que también nos lo hace saber en las notas.