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Past, present, future. For the old fans, the irreducibles one, for many of them Dylan has already died. Even if they still buy for habit or for collection this comic strip, they think Dylan has already given everything and today's one is a pale shade of the masterpiece it was. Who writes is not so drastic, even if a choice like Neil Gaiman's one for his Sandman (it finishes with the n.75, because the stimuli had finished) it would not have been as queer for a series like DD. It's clear that such an idea plays like a swearword to the publisher and certainly won't happen. The well to draw for the thematic of a comic strip like Dylan, is not undoubtedly without deep (in difference of other series like Zagor or Nathan Never, for example):too many situations (serial killer, deformed monsters, inversions good ones/bad ones, relationship life/ death/ not-life.) we have seen yet and they begin to stink of stale. Yet the character, the second leading actors, the possible ambient have so much charm so and so big potentiality to make us think to new tales of absolute value. Tales different in the cut, even without the "poetry" that has done the Dylan-myth, even less in the van and more rigorous, tales however to be read without prejudices. Under the nose already excellent tales like "Paper's jail" or "Until death doesn't separate you" have passed and many have shrug their's shoulders again. The doubt I rise is that, perhaps, not (or not only) the quality has fallen, but rather the ability to be astonished, to become enthusiastic of the readers once teen-agers, and now young men. When I was 17 years old I slobbered for things that I now see again with not few sufficiency ;-).
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