Dylan Dog is not a simple horror comic, it is a reading in which the authors must try to surprise the reader, if the surprise is not limited to a couple of twists but becomes a seamless series of twists that leave you wondering I stun the enthusiast, making him exclaim “come on?”, then the book has fulfilled its function of surprising.
This is the case of this issue “La Misura del Mondo” with script and drawings by Ambrosini Carlo, in which the fiction holds firm, leaving the reader in disbelief, representing a fundamental piece in the narrative journey of the nightmare investigator .
The story starts from the report of the disappearance of the child Donald, from the orphanage, who suffers from dwarfism. Meanwhile at the police station, a man, Slim Cornewell, also suffering from dwarfism, reports the appearance of his wife Olivia.
Dylan Dog is contacted by the psychologist, social worker Lu Benne, the woman who looked after the child Donald and believes she has a symbiotic – telepathic relationship with the child, so much so that she deduces that she knows where he is… on a flying island.
A story that starts from the 1950s and is intertwined with the novel “Gulliver’s Travels” by the writer Jonathan Swift…
A compelling narrative, above all much more captivating and narratively more linear in reading, compared to the latest issues. The events take place on two parallel levels that meet in an ending that leaves perplexed and doubtful. A well-conceived thriller, whose basis is Gulliver’s Novel, so much so that one has the feeling, at a certain point in the comic, of losing the perception between reality and fiction, whose screenplay leverages points that the reader knows.
In all of this, I don’t know if intended or not, it seems that the author wants to convey the message of a society in which those who are not equal to others feel out of context and seek their own reality.