Moriarty

author: Daniel Corey

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.75

book published: 2013

rating: 4

read at: 2013/07/20

date added: 2013/07/20

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

Moriarty Deluxe Edition collects a series of comics about Holmes villain Moriarty and paints him as an interesting anti-hero in a world after Sherlock Holmes is gone. There are any number of projects that pay homage to Moriarty and Holmes, so it's always worth asking if we need another one. In this case, the answer is a definite yes.



20 years after Reichenbach Falls, Moriarty still founders without his greatest rival Holmes. In the first story arc, he gets word that the start of the Great War might have been caused by a group known as the Black Hand, he goes in search of them. Along the way, he looks into the disappearance of Mycroft Holmes and the mysterious and deadly Tartarus. He travels about in a series of costumes and aliases.



The second story continues from the first, but has Moriarty travelling to Burma to look into the disappearance of one of his men. There is also a mysterious tree that keeps showing up in his dreams.



There is plenty of action, and while Moriarty is never a truly good guy, he seems to be a better man than those he is pursuing. It's a huge graphic novel and a pretty engrossing story. The art is roughed out, but feels like pulp illustration, so it serves the story well, with lots of dark shadows in the panels and lines all over Moriarty's face.





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