Darwin’s Diaries Book 3: Dual Nature
Darwin’s Diaries Book 3: Dual Nature, by Sylvain Runberg & Eduardo Ocana, Cinebook
HORROR FICTION finds its place in uncertain times. I recall the last boom being during the uneasy political climates when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister on UK shores. Now she’s passed on, and times seem even more uncertain. Do we look to the past nostalgically? I think not, and we rarely act learn from it as a species. Though all too often we find it easier to address our current circumstances by casting our fictions in times gone by.
Darwin’s Diaries may seem an adequate place to reflect then. Those who watched the bleak Sunday drama saga that was The Village when these books first came out might find the odd uneasy similarity here, at least if they threw The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde into the mix. Nowadays we'd compare this to Penny Dreadful.
This third volume is event laden, as much to ensure plots are explained and resolved all in one final go as for any other matter. As such, for a modern graphic novel created in Europe it has all the features of an old British weekly strip, so crammed are the goings on, albeit more suitable for the age range of today’s modern 2000AD reader. Suffice to say, the beast that walks like a man is not alone, and though this concludes the series, a tad hastily, it leaves it open for more series to follow.
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