I was familiar with Dylan Dog by way of hearing about the series while in a comic store one day years ago and of course via the horrible film based on the property. That wasn't enough though for me to ever pick it up and give it a shot until two things happened. First I was talking to a buddy who absolutely loved the book and second a fortuitous visit to my regular shop about a year ago. The owner has a display of graphic novels that are half off and one day looking through I saw that awesome co...

I wanted to give Five stars for pure awesomeness, but the selections, while offering a smorgasboard of variety, suffered some for a lacking continuity. There's no introduction except the blurb on the back cover, as many readers mention, and it truly would have been helpful for me to know the comic started in the mid-eighties to understand why some material is dated, but I actually am glad to have jumped in without knowing what I was in for. I picked this up because of the cool cover, took it hom...

I've read this pretty slowly because it represents pretty much the entirety of Dylan Dog in English language (or at least it did when I bought it 2014). I love supernatural noir, especially with a sense of humour, and the Italian style of DD actually puts him ahead of John Constantine and Harry D'Amour as a character, even if I think those characters appeared in more compelling stories.There's five or six stories in here, each one near enough the length of a standard graphic novel, and covering

The Italian comic series that lead to the film Cemetery Man. As much as I love the movie, these comics are smoother narratives and surprisingly sweet & funny for what is essentially a horror anthology.

I really want to read more of these. They are some really imaginative stories and nice artwork.

The Dylan Dog Case Files is an English language collection of 7 Dylan Dog stories, written by Tiziano Scalvi.The titular character, Dylan Dog, is a "Nightmare Investigator." Anything that goes bump in the night or doesn't quite fit the accepted idea of what crime is is his purview. He lives in a house in London with a screaming doorbell and a Groucho Marx impersonator named Felix as his assistant. Sound absurd? Well, it is. It's a beautiful absurdity, though, and it's easy to see why Umberto

Fascinating comic that veers (though seemingly with deliberate control) between schlock horror, gags, meta-references, tradgedy, social/class issues and even the nature of comics as an artistic medium.

Funny, pulpy (in a good way), and at times philosophical, full of absurd twists. I loved it. Can we get some more English translations? Please and thanks.

A collection of seven graphic novels, originally published in Italy, mostly in the mid-to-late 1980s. Dylan Dog is a 'nightmare investigator', a London private detective specialising in the supernatural. He looks like Rupert Everett, c1985. He's assisted by Groucho, who looks (and talks) a lot like Groucho Marx c1940. Groucho is a key part of the all-pervading weirdness of the comic; initially he seems like an annoying gimmick, but the real weirdness comes when the writer and artists breathe war...

When Umberto Eco says something like "I can read the Bible, Homer or Dylan Dog for several days without being bored." I can't resist picking up the comic book in question. This is how I found myself reading an Italian horror comic in translation. Dylan Dog is steeped in media influences and was the inspiration for cult classic horror film The Cemetary Man. The palimpsest quality of the comic is probably one of the main attractions for Eco—our beloved semiotics teacher: the hero is Rupert Everett...

I wasn't doubtful when I bought this omnibus .When someone don't know called Umberto Eco write (l can read Homer, the Bible and Dylan for days without being bored) you cannot say no to it, maybe later (like I did) but not no. You must buy one for yourself. I read the whole thing in two days and it was an endless thrill and heartfelt laughter from that Felix's (in some points I wished he was the main character but the chemistry between him and Dylan was priceless), but the disappointment was deva...

So probably about a month ago I saw the movie Dylan Dog and I liked it. It was funny, paranormally and a little bit sad and while I wouldn't call it the greatest movie I've ever seen I did thoroughly enjoy it. Then I'm reading the back of the dvd box and it says that the film is based on a best selling graphic novel and the next time I go to work, there it is on the graphic novel shelf in the adult dept. I was very excited.Dylan Dog is a detective known for handling things that go bump in the ni...

This is a fat omnibus collection of an Italian comic about a paranormal investigator in London. Like others here, I was intrigued enough by the Umberto Eco(!) blurb on the cover to give it a whirl. And I liked it a lot! A pleasantly different—well, foreign take on a familiar genre.Imagine a cross between Dirk Gently and John Constantine, but better-dressed than either. I wondered at first if the British setting was invented by the translators, but before long, a somewhat skewed London becomes as...

An Italian comic about a British private detective specializing in paranormal cases. I was expecting B-movie fun, but ended up kind of bored. Dylan Dog doesn't really offer anything new; he plays the clarinet to help him think (maybe referencing Sherlock Holmes's violin) but also tries for a James Bond vibe, since if you see any woman under the age of 40, chances are he's going to sleep with her. His wacky assistant, a clean-shaven Groucho Marx, is frankly annoying--dropping funny witticisms her...

The Dylan Dog Case Files consists of the six issue mini-series printed in the U.S. by Dark Horse as well as the one-shot "Dylan Dog: Zed". I presume this collection to be some of the best selections from the decades long run of the popular Italian horror comic. I found the writing quirky, intriguing, evocative and quite often touching. Dylan is a nightmare investigator and a very complicated character in every sense. All in all this book is a compelling series of stories and a quick page turner....

My first exposure to Dylan Dog came in the form of the movie Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore), which was based on Dylan Dog about as loosely as one thing can possibly be based upon another. Nevertheless, it was enough to pique my interest when, years later, I got the opportunity to read the various American printings of the Dylan Dog comics (with Mike Mignola covers!)I was blown away. I'd heard good things about Dylan Dog (there's a thumbs-up from Umberto Eco right there on the cover), bu...

Despite being a guy who's supposed to know comics, I had never heard of Dylan Dog until seeing this volume on a friend's bookshelf a week ago. This was during a lovely brunch which had at least one Italian in attendance, and he proceeded to attempt to explain to me the importance of Dylan Dog to Italian pop culture -- a valiant effort that was lost on me, as I don't speak Italian.For those as ignorant as I was, the skinny: Dylan Dog is the most popular Italian comic book in the universe. Dylan h...

What to say about Dylan Dog, Nightmare Detective? The way things are arranged in this collection, it seems as though the writer started out with clear intentions: write noir stories about the supernatural and the detectives who, logically, are able to deal with it.However, those intentions seem to erode, and the stories through the collection get more and more surreal, until we're almost in Promethea/Alan Moore territory. The supernatural won't stay as cut and dried as "monster of the week." It

apparently one of the best-selling comics in italy, this is an anthology of all of the dark horse trade paperbacks that they translated and released back in the '90s. they tell the story of dylan dog, a "nightmare detective," (who, no, you're not crazy, looks exactly like rupert everett; he was the inspiration for the artist) and his misadventures with things that go bump in the night (including women) and his assistant felix (a dead-ringer for groucho marx without the mustache). it's an intrigu...