Roberto Recchioni, Angelo Stano, Corrado Roi
L'Alba Nera

For an eternity, the bonelliani had realized that the subversive and explosive power of the Dylan Dog from 1986 (the year the Nightmare Investigator was born at the newsstand) was beginning to lose its edge.
​Now issue No. 401 of the New Dylan Dog (The Black Dawn) has hit the stands, which seems new but in fact, the flaws and gaps remain.

If anything, paradoxically, they are even more noticeable.
Meanwhile, the plot.
Of an alarming banality, to say the least, but let's analyze it step by step:
1. (Pointless) preamble unrelated to the following story, boh 2. Classic wife attacked by the zombie/husband 3. The wife consults DD for advice 4. The deceased husband is examined at the morgue by a scientist who discovers the virus. 5. DD and the wife of the zombie + 2 police officers go to the morgue full of zombies that are coming to life 6. The zombies resurrect and cause chaos. 7. Bang Bang Ahrgh Swiss 8. All the zombies die.

The real novelties, in practice, are few, I would dare say insignificant:
1. The amusing and sarcastic Groucho disappears (Why?) and enters the silent idiot Gnagni, a caricature/citation of Sclavi himself that neither entertains nor elicits smiles 2. Dylan Dog has a beard (Wow, a hipster investigator who’s so cool!!) 3. There's a Pakistani policewoman presence (Wow! The much-needed touch of multiculturalism) 4. The story is excessively linear and, I'd say, quite bland (Are we still surprised that there are dead who come back to life, after 35 years of which our character has seen, fought, and dealt with zombies nonstop??). 5. Next to the Dylan Dog logo on the cover (done in silver) appears the number 666 (Wow! The Devil… How scary!!)

In short, the new Great Turn announced, in my opinion, was born old.
I wholeheartedly cherish and with tears in my eyes the beautiful drawings of a Corrado Roi at the peak of expressive maturity, with an almost perfect use of drawing and inking in BN.
A masterpiece of graphic excellence, perhaps the best of all the Dylandogghian production seen so far.
I got this album JUST for him.
Know it.