The depiction of the murders themselves—particularly their climax, the murder of Mary Kelly, which takes up an entire chapter—is horrific and merciless, explicit and graphic. The art work was white/black OK I don't have the problem with that, but when in some frames you can not even recognize characters or read text properly. My all-time favorite graphic novel … an immense, majestic work about the Jack the Ripper murders, the dark Victorian world they happened in, and the birth of the 20th century. It presents one theory (since discredited) about the Jack The Ripper killings, and in so doing presents us with the story from every conceivable angle.

While the murders in From Hell can only be tentatively linked to the formation of the 20th century, the mass slaughter in Watchmen leads directly to world peace, or at least peace between the U. 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.

Say what you will about Alan Moore's writing style (which I admit can get awfully overblown at points, especially when he was younger), but at least he is a master at putting together a sharply focused yet wildly digressive story, and smart enough to understand how two such seemingly competitive elements can actually complement each other when done in the right way. Durante mucho tiempo he estado retrasando la lectura de este cómic, casi todo lo que escribe Moore es muy denso y From Hell tiene fama de ser el cómic más denso que ha escrito hasta la fecha, además el tema que trata nunca me ha llamado demasiado la atención y el dibujo de Eddie Campbell digamos que no es que atraiga a primera vista precisamente y luego está el tema de los apéndices, estoy harto de oir que son de lectura obligatoria, y a mi eso de interrumpir la lectura de un cómic para irme al final del tomo a leer las anotaciones del autor cada dos páginas no me gusta un pelo. I mean, sure, it's Jack the Ripper and Alan Moore and it's supposed to be this grand masterpiece, but to me it just feels mostly like some kind of disjointed hodge-podge collection of personas that simultaneously lift up and denigrate both the East Side women and everyone else, nearly randomly, until much later in the comic when things finally tie together into a mystical extravaganza that is both surprising and feeling rather out of place. Como único punto negativo y es cosa mía totalmente, lo de los masones me aburre mucho y todos los delirios del personaje de Gull me cuestan un poco, pero es porque no me interesa ese tema. The series was published in ten volumes between 1991 and 1996, and an appendix, From Hell: The Dance of the Gull-catchers, was published in 1998.

It WAS a bit overlong, but it was blessedly pirate-free, and remained on-point from the first page to the last. Las brutales actividades de su Destripador son el epicentro de una conspiración que involucra el corazón mismo del establishment británico, incluidos los masones y la familia real.

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. The panels are very graphic where sexuality is concerned (female and male body parts are shown explicitly).