For anyone who doesn’t know “what” Jack the Ripper was, he was basically a nineteenth century Peter Sutcliffe who was never caught. But unlike those two, it is packed with appendices at the back that make clear the huge amount of thought and research that has gone into its production.įrom Hell is a dramatisation of a Jack the Ripper theory. Like the two Alan Moore books I’ve read before ( Watchmen and V for Vendetta), From Hell was great. And that is to my loss, because it means there are still many classics of the genre I am yet to touch. Graphic novels are only something I have come to enjoy since they became firmly rooted in the mainstream of contemporary literature. In the days when I read unfashionable books, the unfashionable books I read were even more unfashionable and are never likely to become fashionable. I wasn’t reading Alan Moore when to do so was an edgy, alternative life-choice that ended up giving much hipster capital years later. I’d like to point out, before I begin this review, that I didn’t like graphic novels before they were cool.
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