Screenplay: Roberto Recchioni
Drawings: Bruno Brindisi
Cover: Angelo Stano
SPOILER Drawings: Bruno Brindisi
Cover: Angelo Stano
Recchioni Robert is an author rather than loved by the public. His blog is a lot of interest and even managed to carve out some space in the record, mainly due to his previous work on Dylan Dog, Mater Morbi that touched on universal themes that fought and how the disease and euthanasia.
Personally, I found myself often in agreement with him, but at the authorial I've always found it more clever than good. The quality of his work is high, but often I've found in some of his work is a collage of situations taken from movies and comic books that got to do relatively little with what he was writing.
My diagnosis is this: Recchioni nerdica is suffering from bulimia. Law
all seen tons of movies and TV series and then puking, trying to give his signature to what he saw. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes not. Hey, these things happen!
on Dylan Dog I would say that it has always done well. I like his character and management of riprosizione dylan issues filtered through his personal vision of things. Here, here we find a signature, a personal style that comes in a big way, but never overbearing, in view of Dylan Dog.
The story of the month is just that. He manages to combine a course at the Dylan Dog with his personal taste for a certain type of situations. And of course, love for girls and vaguely evil "peasant" as the girl of the month, a sort of Suicide Girl with piercing, tattoos and a skirt that says "we both know that below may or may not be panties. "
Bravo also to Brindisi, which has certainly caught the spirit of the character.
That is, is hot.
Wait for me now resumed, eh.
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Ok, come on, I came back to me.
were saying ... the story of the month.
Groucho and Dylan absolute protagonists of a ridiculous story, a traffic jam that turns into a journey of pleasure surreal odyssey, where within a couple of days innocent travelers, old ladies who made the war and the babe above is become murderers and raiders and threaten to resort to cannibalism.
What's more, in the oncoming lane, pull a shark swims into the asphalt and threatens to eat up everything in its path (an idea that I found Fichissima). The jaws of the beast will eventually also a scene in Groucho that made me first turn up their nose (the usual reference to "Go, leave me here to die who would otherwise die both of them" that has seen thousands of times in films and comic books of all kinds ... then I would like to see how many times such a thing happens in real life ... I personally drag someone down with me so as not to die alone, but oh well), but that can come out of the quicksand of mediocrity with a mighty wink at reader (quote: "You'll see that I will manage it ... he gets his shoulder comic always good !"... Rrobe).
The Groucho Recchioni I liked a lot. Not the usual jokes ornament, is a character that moves at its own pace funny in an absurd situation, which form with the characters that you are actually very honorably (but very human) shitting below.
And I also liked Dylan. It is not the champion, the hero feel-good that we have seen (too) often in many previous issues, but an ordinary man who even admits that in his goodness would not know what to do in a situation of "your death, vita mea" (for example, the stinging of many Dylan albums ago he would say things like "killing is always wrong," and so on).
So, once again Rrobe guesses the management of the characters.
Perhaps the weak point is the story.
The first half is fast-paced and full of events. The beginning
I felt a sort of Mad Max pedestrian, with the survivors barricade themselves in shopping malls and robbers who take them by storm. Severed heads, improvised weapons, the emergence of groups of people linked only by the desire to survive and the emergence of "characters", the most charismatic and organized individuals who manage to hoard the trust of others. In this case we are talking about Grandma Cleaver, a slightly 'over the top (with an old tape and a knife, with a vaguely face-paint kiss) that I liked in its absurdity and his being at the bottom of the version of the classic little old lady on steroids cacacazzi suffocate you with the good old days.
After the shark-tir, Rrobe could really do anything, but instead of giving a further boost to the fantasy story, took place more grounded in reality, in the last thirty pages depicting the desperate exodus of a small group led by Dylan and Groucho trying to find in all ways the end of history. At this stage the story is flattened a bit 'and threatens to slow down a bit' too the unfolding of events. I admit to being a lover of fast-paced, comic strips that go flat out in every situation and are always ready to pull out the characters and situations to the point of absurdity, so my opinion is certainly influenced by personal taste. I have a little 'sorry self-imposed limit of 94 pages size Bonelli, in this case because the story would have benefited from the division into two numbers, with Dylan's journey stops in the middle in the first issue and ending in the second. The variety of situations to portray was immensely larger and certainly Recchioni could get the best out of himself (which, according to my personal taste, is synthesized in most situations the shark and pull-over pussy and in my opinion ... this development would not mind even Recchioni).
The finish is one that divides the mass. I liked it.
The immense, endless queue of cars is due to a cow standing in the middle of the road and an old driver of a hundred years ago (more or less) that it was unable to move. E 'surreal, absurd, does not have any sense and that is why I found it clever (after all, to do some' the philosopher from the pavement, highways and many traffic jams as many deadlocks in our lives are caused from "cows in the road"?).
The alternative would be to motivate all with the usual "Sumerian spectrum in the refrigerator", namely: a blood pact / a spirit that takes possession of the road-a ghost of a dead woman killed / the hand of the devil (maybe a bit here 'is, in that hint all'Hellcome Break) / Cagliostro.
Any of the above situations would have made me exclaim a "ah, oh well "half disappointment. fans of the explanations at all costs but would have preferred otherwise.
Obviously, in this way would have lost all sense of the story (ie, a surreal and violent situation arising from a triviality can easily be overcome: The cow in the middle of the road).
We are the weaknesses.
I really liked the action on British soil at the Roman legionary Pullo Gaius (perhaps, knowing Recchioni, could be a tribute, at least in name, Titus Pullo of the American series Rome), because in the end, adds nothing to the story and uses a "trick" (ie the classic "mapoiètuttounsogno") that do not I never liked. The purpose of
Pullo Gaius is to enter a debate about civilization as "a giant with feet of clay", which is too easily destroyed by human barbarism (the new barbarians of the title are thus placed in parallel with the old barbarians addressed Romans). It can be done, not a fault so great, but I would have kept out of this speech. It seemed too easy and obvious parallels. There was no real need for this discussion.
A couple of elements of the story did not convince me fully:
1) Dylan says explicitly that between London and Brighton are only 50 miles. The hellish traffic jam as they remain trapped is 49 miles from their middle (as the sign says on page 10) and then, if the mathematics of elementary serves me at the last moment, our find themselves stuck at just 1 miles from London. Why decide to go ahead and get to Brighton? They could not simply go back ...?
2) This is a bit 'bullshit, but sometimes my brain focuses more on the fly to the side of the page in the book I am reading.
In the final pages is the exodus of the survivors who walk the rest of the day and night.
Now it is summer, it's a hot Executioner, probably the asphalt during the day reaches a high temperature would be more comfortable ... travel at night?
have stretch marks on the thighs of the classic ultra hot, but since I have seen them carry.
The comics are usually chock Recchioni of quotations, in this case I believe I have found only two: The
-Pullo Gaius which I have already talked about (but I could be wrong).
-The presence of Cleon and one of the Baseball Furies (two characters from the movie The Warriors on page 64 (but here I do not know if the quote is due to Recchioni or Brindisi).
If you have found other, let me know.
END SPOILER
screenplay Rating: 4 / 5 Rating drawings: 4 / 5
History of the month is a bit 'a Tamarra, but because in the end they are a tamarro, I found it well done. Brindisi
drawings are precise and detailed as usual. Some great moments in the script can get even with a development a bit 'lame that flattens when it should instead press the accelerator. The presence of a Groucho in great shape and an ending that I found perfectly fitting the fate of the register pop up raising it well above the simple enough.
PS I could be wrong, but it seemed to me the book with the highest number of "Judas dancer!" the story of Dylan Dog. We
waiting for the verdict of the judges of the Guinness World Record.
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