Dylan Dog: Zed

    (Dark Horse, 2003)
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Who’d have thought we’d be lucky enough to get more translated Bonelli Books — and an entry in the Dylan Dog series, at that? There are certain surface similarities between Dylan and Hellblazer John Constantine, but Dylan operates in a decidedly nicer part of London, solves puzzles that have nothing to do with office politics in Hell, and you can even be friends with him without risking your life. In short, Dylan’s a much more congenial sort of paranormal investigator.

Which brings us to Zed, a neat little (figuratively and literally) graphic novel predicated on the premise there’s an entrance to a fantasy land behind a stone wall in the worst part of London, and, for a price, you can be taken there. Naturally, it’s the paradise that isn’t as advertised, and what it really is is almost as clever as the British government’s way of dealing with this threat to the status quo.

— S.A. Bennett
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