This book is simply really big and therefore really intimidating. I bought it about two years ago, and just got to it this month. It didn’t take as long as I would have thought to read, but I am still only a quarter of the way through the appendix, which has proved to be just as interesting as the book itself. The reason it has taken me over a week to get a quarter of the way through the appendix, is because it constantly unlocks an urge inside me to look up various serial killers on Wikipedia. I assume by this point most of you are waiting for some semblance of an actually review, and I would just like to assure you that it’s coming!!

Instantly I will get out of the way that I think this book was fantastic. The amount of research put into this narrative is truly miraculous. This is my favorite type of story, just taking an insane amount of facts, drawing conclusions from them, and then ignoring the fact that you can’t prove any of it. For example the movies Zodiac, and Auto Focus do this exact thing wonderfully. Alan Moore actually does this, but adds in some of his own twists that push this book a step beyond the average graphic novel. Without taking anything away from the Ripper killings, Alan Moore gives it a somehow sci-fi feel. I loved it!

The Artwork in this book fits perfectly for the story told. Also if you are some sort of masochist and enjoy gruesome bloody horrible murder, this book contains some of the sickest images that I have ever seen. Sometimes it literally made me sick. I say all of that as a good thing. Another thing that is so good about the art, is that every panel of city scape was researched more than the information of the murders. And the research in the story was simply unbeatable, reading the autopsy of Mary Kelly after reading the issue, makes me think it couldn’t have played out any other way.

So good it’ll make your blood blue! (due to almost constant gasping!) –Slugtron

If you would like to read a convincing hypothesis of who Jack the Ripper might have been, and what his motives were, just for that alone you should read this. But also because it’s a story well told, with twists that only Alan Moore could have thought up.

Dr.Cyborg awards this book 256 out of 255 stars. *that is not a typo! Way better than the movie. (If that wasn’t already obvious.)