From Hell: Master Edition

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It flows well and the allusions at the start are explicit at the end, then even more so in the appendixes, of course. In this remarkable new edition, the award-winning bestseller FROM HELL now features astonishing colours by Eddie Campbell!

The Church in turn is a pristine marble island, almost otherworldly and ethereal in a sea of urban human muck. With the novel coupling the zeitgeist of the twentieth century with the repercussions of the serial killings, readers with a medical disposition would be left to speculate at what the culture of healthcare would have been like today without the consequences of Shipman’s crimes. This seems truer in the original black and white where given all the additional text and focus on characters both historic and otherwise, less patient readers might feel tempted to skip those insights until the next Ripper murder. His art style is distinguished by the near photo-realism of his human subjects which is often undercut with absurdist humor.

In this remarkable new edition, the award-winning bestseller From Hell now features astonishing colours by Eddie Campbell! As he describes their supposed forgotten origins and power, the color contrast transforms them into something more phallic, or blade-like. All I can offer is my own experience - which was that for me From Hell: Master Edition is a welcome enhancement and was far more horrifying, illuminating and transcendent than I ever imagined it could be again. The medical gaze becomes a mirror: perhaps the model of medicine we participate in is inherently diseased.

Despite initial difficulties reading I had already come to regard it as Moore’s finest work and while Watchmenwill always be his most popular story (and possibly the greatest superhero series of all time), From Hell is really more of what Moore’s all about. While the artwork was impressive, too often it felt muddled and messy combined with the excruciating levels of gore and Moore’s legendarily dense layers of text. An unflinching recreation of Jack the Ripper's mutilation of five Whitechapel prostitutes in 1888 is the core of this graphic novel. Jack acts as "midwife to the 20th century", delivering the next 100 years of Holocaust, serial killing and media rapaciousness as he extracts his last victim's heart. One of the most stunning and horrific scenes of the whole book is the sequence when Gull proceeds to eviscerate the recently murdered Catherine Eddowes’ corpse and takes on the Ripper persona.

Aside from all the aforementioned gore sex and violence it is nearly 600 pages of dense history, Psychogeography, folklore, and super-dense layered text characteristic of all of Moore’s work ( Moore himself did not add much new material to the Master Edition save for more of his copious notes).

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Gull envelops himself into his work, assaulting the organism of the East End like a disease striking a patient; the spatio-temporal presentation of his fervent disease accelerating the demise of the nineteenth century while delivering the twentieth.

Most Ripper scholars dismiss the theory as Gull was 72 and had recently suffered a stroke at the time of the murders. We readily see how the pernicious Victorian society portrayed in From Hell allows Gull to behave with impunity whereas in the reality of today there is some acceptance that within a dysfunctional system ‘there is no process, procedure or regulation which can prevent malpractice on its own’.The award-winning bestseller FROM HELL , often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time, takes on haunting new dimensions in FROM HELL: Master Edition , enhanced with impressionistic hues by Eddie Campbell himself. It is here that Gull claims to give birth to the twentieth century and its paradoxical proclivities to iniquity and dehumanization amid unimaginable technology wealth and progress. The primary crime of the feature film being that what was essentially deep and complex character study of the murderer, the victims and the detective is compacted into run-of-the-mill whodunnit. Gruesome take on a classic tale, some chapters were very slow and really dragged but that didn't stop me from enjoying another genius novel by Alan Moore. As striking as the imagery was, I’m inclined to agree with Eddie Campbell in an interview with Previews Magazine who said that after reading the Master Edition the original will feel like viewing it through a woolly sweater.