Comments on: The Android’s Dungeon: Dylan Dog Case Files http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2009/05/05/the-androids-dungeon-dylan-dog-case-files/ A celebration of cheap thrills Fri, 17 May 2013 14:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bryan White http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2009/05/05/the-androids-dungeon-dylan-dog-case-files/comment-page-1/#comment-3494 Bryan White Wed, 06 May 2009 17:29:37 +0000 http://www.cinema-suicide.com/?p=1505#comment-3494 I’m with you 100%. I would have loved to have known a little more about the character and what it is about the book that makes it such a smash hit in Italy. The writing is stupendous! He’s a great character and it’s such a strange book, but Dark Horse provided nothing to frame it.

Their editions of Lone Wolf & Cub comes with some historical notes and a glossary to fill you in on the cultural references in the books and those are massively helpful. That sort of extra stuff goes a long way. I can only hope that they do more with foreign books in the future but provide some background.

]]> By: houseinrlyeh http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2009/05/05/the-androids-dungeon-dylan-dog-case-files/comment-page-1/#comment-3491 houseinrlyeh Wed, 06 May 2009 08:14:14 +0000 http://www.cinema-suicide.com/?p=1505#comment-3491 The not giving context part seems to be a real thing with projects like this for Dark Horse. (That, and not doing much in the way of marketing, and afterwards acting surprised that the stuff doesn’t sell)
I remember their edition of some of Kazuo Umezu’s horror comics for young girls, Scary Stories, which were desperately in need of some context, only getting a little of it through some background material in Umezu’s brilliant <Drifting Classroom – published by Viz!
It’s quite a shame, really.

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