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Title: From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts /C [Written by Alan Moore and Drawn by Eddie Campbell] by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, Phil D. Amara ISBN: 0-87816-360-3 Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (79 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The ultimate Jack the Ripper novel!
Comment: This is just the first volume of From Hell. To get the whole story, there are nine more volumes to go. All told, you'll spend $50 to get the whole story. It's worth every penny. From Hell does more than just tell the story of Jack the Ripper. It tears apart Victorian London and everything it represents. This is a heavily, heavily researched novel, downright spooky, utterly terrifying at times, and while it's paced very slowly, the impact is like being cut up by old Jack himself. Alan Moore's words are in perfect harmony with Eddie Campbell's illustrations. Illustrations? Oh, didn't I mention that this is a comic book? "Comic book," you ask, shocked. Well, get over it. This is a story that redifines the medium, a graphic novel in every sense of the word. Once you read one chapter, you won't be able to stop until you've read them all. So try volume one. You won't regert it

Rating: 5
Summary: Latest Moore masterpiece
Comment: Prostitutes are at the grimy bottom of the social ladder in almost any society. Their murders are neither uncommon nor usual causes for alarm, but in 1888, a string of slayings of this loathly population in Whitechapel, one of many atrocious slumps of Victorian London, shook England to its core. The vile acts of Jack the Ripper, the sickening surgery he performed on five whores, made proud English society question what kind of a monster could arise from its cracks. Jack's escapes from the police and an entire city searching for him forced London to question its competency. The wild curiosity the killer, the first tabloid star, drew made England question its taste. The savage and sick nature of his act, the boastful letters he sent to the press and police (one letter contains included a human kidney) caused many to question the entire human condition. In 1888, the first serial killer, that disturbing, shocking, sexually motivated type of killer was unleashed on the world.

Over one hundred years after the Ripper killings, Alan Moore, puts the events of autumn 1888 under his literary microscope with a comic book masterpiece, From Hell, and makes them as shocking, stomach-turning and frighteningly thought provoking as they were in 1888, in ever. Moore, a practical Ripper historian who fills forty-two pages of this volume with research notes, analyses the historical, intellectual, societal, psychological and metaphysical importance of the Ripper killings.

Moore, joined by appropriately sketchy art of Eddie Campbell, narrates the theory that the cadavers found laying in pieces in Whitechapel once belonged to a gang of prostitutes who bribed the crown with knowledge of a secret marriage between Queen Victoria's grandson and a Catholic commoner. Royal physician, Sir William Gull, disposed of the women and takes a few creative liberties.

All characters in From Hell are beyond compelling: Gull, a Freemason and Hannibal Lector-type intellectual who reaches the darkest regions of the human mind and spirit, which are revealed to also be the most profane. Mary Kelly, Gull's final victum, who is made brutally aware of the futility of her life's station and the harshness of her world as she watches her friends die one by one and waits for her turn. Frederick Abberline, the Scotland Yard inspector assigned to the Ripper case, whose traditional morals of merit are tested as he wades through the steaming dung of society.

In most comics, traditional morals are seen as a virtue, but From Hell is no ordinary comic book. It travels down the societal ladder in an attempt to step higher on the philosophical. It is a masterpiece, a gracefully narrated epic that splashes in the grime of history and moral netherworlds with a deep sense of poignancy.

Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely amazing
Comment: I was absolutely amazed by the depth and quality of Alan Moore's FROM HELL. I've been reading graphic novels for a little over a year now, and in terms of subtlety, nuance, and overall storytelling, FROM HELL is head and shoulders above anything else I've read. I'm currently reading Moore's WATCHMEN, which also seems to be of equal quality.

I've never experienced anything close to what FROM HELL delivers in the admittedly short time that I've been reading comics. Alan Moore writes with the ear of a novelist and the eye of a portraitist. He packs this well-researched story of the Jack the Ripper murders with a wide and observant representation of life.

This graphic novel isn't just a retelling of the facts of the Jack the Ripper case (though it does an extraordinary job of that). It takes it all to the next level, and examines the reasons for examining such things.

It's not so much a suspense story (you know who the killer is right from the beginning) but rather one of internal discovery. A fascinating work of art and work of literature that should be read by anyone who wants to see just what comics are capable of.