DARK HORSE COMICS
WRITER: Cole Haddon
ART: M.S. Corley
COLORS: Jim Campbell
LETTERS: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
32pp, Color, $3.50 U.S.
The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde is a four-issue comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. The film weaves together the Jack the Ripper legend with characters from the novella, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by author Robert Louis Stevenson. Ultimately, the series pits Mr. Edward Hyde against the Whitechapel Murderer (Jack the Ripper) with, Thomas Adye, a London police inspector caught in the middle.
Inspector Adye believes that the Whitechapel Murderer is empowered by the same serum that turned Dr. Henry Jekyll into Edward Hyde. The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde #2 finds Adye returning to the bowels of Scotland Yard to meet with Hyde’s creator, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and now, Adye has to make a deal with this devil. Soon, Adye, Jekyll, and two police officers are off to Whitechapel where violence, bloodshed, death, and a taste of Hyde are waiting for Adye.
As I wrote in my review of the first issue of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, this is a great read, and it remains so. I love the eye-catching visual style of series artist, M.S. Corley, which recalls woodcut engraving and Kevin O’Neill’s art on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book series. Corley’s unique graphics capture a down and dirty, but attractive late-century London, and convey the tension and excitement of the action sequences. Think of this as Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes in comics.
The best thing that writer Cole Haddon gives the readers in this second issue is more of Dr. Jekyll. Haddon’s supernaturally sly Jekyll has a devilish charm that would scare even the Devil himself. I found myself anticipating his every word, so much that I’ve read the pages in which he appears several times.
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