“It’s not a Hammer movie,” Krieg says of A Study in Terror, “but it looks like it’s trying to be a Hammer movie. Jack the Ripper movie, A Study in Terror as a favorite, if not a specific influence. In particular, Krieg cites the 1965 Sherlock Holmes vs. “There’s actually a considerable amount of British literature that are about Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper,” Krieg says. I tried to do as much as I could.”īut not just any Sherlock Holmes stories would do. I made the Baker Street Irregulars into Robins. But I didn’t want to get any of it wrong and I didn’t want to leave any Sherlockian stone unturned. “I grew up as a Holmes fan and my dad read it to me, and I read it to my kids. “I would say of the research I did, it was more in the Sherlock Holmes area,” Krieg says. But Krieg spent more time on iconic fiction of the era than he did on Ripperology when coming up with Gotham by Gaslight. Of course, there’s another inescapable work of comic book fiction that deals with Jack the Ripper, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s indispensable From Hell, which, while fictional is exhaustively footnoted with other elements of Ripper research. If you see a mystery and you know the ending, it’s kind of a bummer. “And the other thing is that it’s a mystery. “If we gave you exactly what the original was it would be eleven minutes long,” Timm joked. After all, the original comic was only 48 pages long. But the animated version of Gotham by Gaslight isn’t a direct adaptation, and they had to add more in order to make it work.
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