Dylan Dog. Alfa e Omega - Dal profondo

by Tiziano Sclavi

Italian

Genres: Comics, Comics Manga, Graphic Novels, Italian Literature

198 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Tiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book and novel writer, who has also worked as a journalist. Sclavi is most famous for creating the Italian bestselling comic Dylan Dog, started in 1986 and still ongoing, a horror pastiche featuring a paranormal investigator. More than 450 monthly 90-pages long issues have appeared in the series, with Sclavi as the most recurrent script writer in the first decade of serialisation.

Reviews

[Srđan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark, poetic, beautiful and definitely one of the best "nightmares" I've ever had a chance to experience. From Dylan Dog episodes you can expect literally anything. From some not-that-successful episodes and twisted ones to those very best-of that will push your imagination and emotions to one new and very unique experience. Every episode is story for itself, and ,even if you don't find yourself enjoing the plot, it is very possible you will be amazed with impressive drawnings of fantastic Roi, Castelini, Brindisi or Sclavi himself.
Dylan Dog is character who is constantly in search of something which he doesn't even believe in. Although as such he choose to go to the very end of the case seeking deeper and deeper even when his courage left him. DD will easily pull reader into the story putting him into dreamy horroric atmosphere where only light contrast are Groucho's jokes (which sometimes actually can be more horrifying than monsters or killers itself).

[Graziano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Può darsi... o forse
come diceva sempre
l'ispettore Bloch
quando ero a Sco-
tland Yard, sono un
bravo detective che
si lascia però tra-
sportare troppo
dal fascino del-
l'ignoto...
(48)

...e andai oltre... imparai
l'universo...

...oltre la materia e il nulla... oltre
il tempo e l'eternità...
(93)

...e tutti quei momenti andranno perdu-
nel tempo... come lacrime nella
pioggia...
(97)

[Maja Uraniborg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grew up with Dylan Dog, his adventures and Groucho's jokes will forever be close to my heart.

[Simon · Rating 3 out of 5]

The edition I read isn't listed on goodreads, so I chose this one as it's neutral. Mine contained the stories "La storia de Dylan Dog" and "Finché la morte non vi separa". This is the first Italian fantasy comic I've read, and I chose it more or less at random, without realising that the stories herein concern both Dylan's origins and his final fate. For some reason the "ending" comes first, and it's by far the weaker of the two stories. Apart from the fact that various revelations about the true nature of certain characters' identities and relationships carry no weight with me as I'd read nothing about them before, (imagine hearing Darth Vader say "Luke, I am your father" completely out of context), the artwork is weak and the plot exists simply to tie up loose ends.
The origin story is much more involving and successful, although the brutal aspects of the story dealing with British armed forces' treatment of IRA suspects sits uneasily with the more fantastical elements.

[Gianfranco Di Campli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dylan è sempre Dylan