(pb; 2025: limited release, for mature audiences only graphic novel.
Graphic novel-only sequel to director/co-screenwriter Lucio Fulci’s 1982 film The New York Ripper. Publisher: Eibon Press/Vinegar Syndrome.)
Review
Caveat: spoilers in this review if you haven’t seen The New York Ripper (1982).
Ripper 2 picks up seven years after the grisly, especially nasty and sexual serial murders shown in Fulci’s 1982 source film. The Ripper (Peter Bunch) is officially dead, killed by the world-weary Lt. Frederick Williams near the end of Ripper. Now, it seems someone—a somehow-not-dead Bunch?—has resumed a relentless, similar spate of gut-spilling, crudely surgical killings, sometimes boldly executed in front of the cops even as they’re helpless to stop them. Nobody is safe in this lots o’ nudity, character- and plot-twisty tale, certainly not Paul Davis (the academic psychiatrist who helped hunt Bunch) nor Fay Majors (Bunch’s ex-girlfriend). A new player is equally traumatized by the Ripper’s offal-stench rampage also: Bob Hansen, Williams’ younger, thirty-something partner, whose life is about to seriously go off anything resembling rails.
Ripper 2 is a "for mature audiences"-fun, Times Square sleazy, gory and wild story, with over-the-top extreme horror
illustrations (often involving a big knife ripping through red-splatter flesh),
one that lives up to the source film’s screenplay, penned by director Lucio
Fulci, Gianfranco Clerico and Vincenzo Mannino. This is a “Video Nasties” flick
in graphic novel form, worth purchasing you’re into that sort of thing. One of
my favorite reads of 2025.
Ripper 2, a limited release, can be purchased (in three package options) here.
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