JacktheRipper

Soscha

Gotham by Gaslight | Mike Mignola, Brian Augustyn

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Dirty, grimy noir for Victorian steampunkers. ⚙️🚂

AnnCrystal 🤩🦇💝💝💝. (edited) 5d

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HaleyAdene

Stalking Jack the Ripper | Kerri Maniscalco

I read Stalking Jack the Ripper while listening to the Ritual album by Adam Hurst. I definitely recommend the combination!

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AroundTheBookWorld

Stalking Jack the Ripper | Kerri Maniscalco

Audrey along with Thomas Cresswell twist their way through the London back world in order to discover who is harvesting and killing woman. And the shocking discovery of who is Jack the Ripper.
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InkedBookworm13

Stalking Jack the Ripper | Kerri Maniscalco

Day 5 of #WickedWhispers is #Cadaver

Against her father's wishes, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Well played👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

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StellaDz

Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories | Kim Newman

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Welp, I seem to be in my DNF‘ing era. I‘d say this is a reading slump if I wasn‘t actually enjoying everything but my Spooktober pics.

This wasn‘t Anno Dracula. It was a mishmash of short stories, the first two which were so beyond boring. I then looked up a summary and realized that none of these are worth it, and the one Anno Dracula story is an excerpt of the next book.

Disappointed.

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Bookwomble

Gotham by Gaslight | Mike Mignola, Brian Augustyn

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Rereading some GNs to decide whether to keep or release.
Gotham by Gaslight is an Elseworlds story before Elseworlds was a thing. It's 1889, and Bruce Wayne returns from a European sojourn where he has honed his skills with Sherlock Holmes (a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference) & Sigmund Freud.
Jack the Ripper is terrifying Gotham, and the newly arrived Batman is out to stop him, while his alter ego is suspected as the killer. Mignola's art is ⬇️

Bookwomble ... superbly matched to the story and scenario, the story itself wraps up a bit too quickly, but it's a keeper, I think. 4🦇 ⬇️ 3mo

Bookwomble The sequel, Batman: Master of the Future, had the same writer, different artist, and a different tone: lightly steampunk rather than darkly Victorian gothic, which could've still worked, but fell rather flat.
The villain is a Verne-esque would-be technocratic global overlord, but never delivers on that promise, and his motivation and behaviour are muddy and disconnected. A squandered opportunity. 3🦇 It shall be released. 3mo

Luke-XVX I love the Elseworlds with Batman, Starman & Hellboy! 3mo

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quietlycuriouskate Totally tangential but I can imagine Rupert Everett condemning heretics with a wave of his hand and a chilling "It shall be released." ("It" being the soul, perhaps. Maybe they were guilty of painting the pope on a Harley... I have yet to let that go; it was just too good!) 3mo

Bookwomble @Luke-XVX I've read a fair few Batman Elseworlds, though not Starman or Hellboy, but I don't know the original material for those characters, which I think is a grounding you need for the alternate takes. I did find them becoming a bit repetitive after a while - new bottle, old wine. I think the execution of these things often doesn't match the conception. 3mo

Bookwomble @quietlycuriouskate I did feel rather imperious as I condemned it to the outer darkness with a casual sentence. Now you've invoked the spirit of Rupert Everett, I'm totally channeling that energy! 😄 Post-apocalypse Pope on a Harley was a mood 😎 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2023 Edition) | Jeff Parker, Brian Augustyn

so-so

Kind of a strange mix. Batman lore has enough inherent darkness, I figured going back to the 19th century would have been enough for the vibes without including a rewrite of Jack the Ripper, but it certainly works as a vigilante vs evil foil. The exhibition/man of tomorrow story felt high on melodrama and low on plot, though I appreciate a story that ends with a significant other sticking around after the Batman alterego discovery. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Still confused about the fluctuating hair colour and decolletage on the heroine/damsel though - was there a miscommunication between artists or did they decide burning building rescuing kid called for a high neckline vs proclaiming doom required blonder hair and more boob? The other two stories felt a bit more tacked on, and somewhat in the middle of storylines I haven't read. 6mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/3 I really loved the art in the Marvels Return of the Thunder/Convergence Shazam. The Search for Ray Palmer felt too much like fragments of other storylines, but Donna Troy's night sky getup and hair effect was a captivating costume. Overall diverting speculations from main continuity. 6mo

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