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The Irregulars Paperback – March 22, 2005

by Steven-Elliot Altman (Author), Bong Dazo (Author), Michael Reaves (Author),
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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A madman stalks the streets of London's Whitechapel slum, leaving a trail of grisly murders in his wake. The police have only one suspect: a prominent and respected physician named John Watson! The master detective Sherlock Holmes, in order to solve the most fantastic mystery of his career and save his greatest friend from the gallows, employs a band of young street urchins to infiltrate the alleys of Whitechapel. They can go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone. They are the Baker Street Irregulars! Join the Irregulars in the most fantastic and terrifying adventure of their lives, as they uncover an evil unlike anything Sherlock Holmes has ever faced!
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    128 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Dark Horse
  4. Publication date
    March 22, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.01 x 0.36 x 8.99 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1593073038
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1593073039
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Sherlock Holmes pastiches flourish in literature, theater, radio, cinema, and, as here, comics, often with one or more Holmesian^B supporting players at center stage. Writers Altman and Michael Reaves focus on Holmes' six street-urchin message-runners and legmen, the Baker Street Irregulars, in a confection that also surreptitiously draws on the Lovecraftian corpus. Crisis strikes when Dr. Watson is arrested for a Jack the Ripper-like murder; Holmes must go abroad, and he entrusts the Irregulars with investigating the matter. They uncover a Dr. Moriarty-aided plot to have some gigantic "Dark Ones," once worshipped in ancient Egypt, invade from an alternate reality and destroy London (Lovecraftians know this scenario, relocated across the pond). Before the game is run down, the Irregulars, paradoxically led by the smallest of them, have forayed into the destroyed London that somewhere, it seems, already exists. Philippine artist Bong Dazo's densely textured nineteenth-century London in both realities is so vivid in black and white that one virtually sees colors. Ray Olson
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse; Illustrated edition (March 22, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593073038
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593073039
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.01 x 0.36 x 8.99 inches
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    Steven-Elliot Altman is a bestselling science fiction author and award-winning videogame writer. His novels include Captain America is Dead, Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, Batman: Fear Itself, The Killswitch Review, The Irregulars, Severed Wings and Deprivers. His videogames include 9Dragons, Pearl's Peril, Ancient Aliens: The Game, Project Blue Book: Hidden Mysteries and Terminator: Dark Fate. In reviews of note his writing has been compared to Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton and Philip K. Dick, and he's collaborated with world class writers like Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Harry Turtledove and Dr. Janet Asimov.

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Jason A. Wade
5.0 out of 5 stars great shape
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013
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Rosse
3.0 out of 5 stars An idea that lost its way
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2017
Such a shame. There's potentially an interesting treatment of the Baker Street Irregulars - a group that have received various interpretations in recent times - but nothing is clear enough. I wondered if it was because I don't often read graphic novels - but I agree with reviews from people who obviously do: it's confusing, it's hard to tell who's speaking etc. The artwork is attractive, but fails to get the story across. I really only understand it in very general terms. A pity because I liked the concept, the characters are developed interestingly from Conan Doyle .... would it work better as a narrative? Without the character guide at the start I'd have been more lost - but even that doesn't tell you which Irregulars are brothers, and Watson and Lestrade are unnecessarily similar in looks.
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Jeffory Hart
5.0 out of 5 stars The Miskatonic Irregulars
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2005
This handsome volume is illustrated by Angelo Ty Dazo in a black and white style that is both contemporary and yet evocative of a Victorian penny dreadful. The tone of the adventure is established by a series of Joe Friday-style captions set over a moody cityscape: "It's the year of our Lord 1885. The city's our London. The hour's on midnight. My name's Wiggins."

I am a sucker for a tale about a gang of spunky lads, and they don't come spunkier than Wiggins and the Irregulars (Patch, Molly, James, Burke, Puck and, since they gotta have a dog, Toby).

When Watson is charged with murder and Sherlock Holmes is otherwise engaged (Yeah, right, just like he was too busy to help Henry Baskerville), the responsibility of exonerating the good doctor is entrusted to Wiggins and Company. Taking to the street to see everything and overhear everyone, the intrepid youngsters encounter a terrifying cosmic evil in Whitechapel unlike anything ever faced by Holmes himself. Only with the help of Professor Challenger, Miss Adler and H. P. Lovecraft's ill-fated musician Erich Zann can the plucky Irregulars hope to foil Moriarty (!) and survive to collect their shillings.

As is perhaps natural in a story of energetic youth, there is more emphasis on wide-screen action than calm ratiocination, but that is what the illustrated medium is designed for. Best of all, however, are the nicely drawn (in every sense of the word) characters of the Irregulars. Instead of indistinguishable dirty-faced ragamuffins clattering up and down the 221b stairs, Altman and Reaves present a group of vivid individuals with clearly defined personalities and, like any elite task force, specialized abilities.... Sort of a dirty half dozen.

This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I would love to follow the adventures of these Irregulars as they grow and mature --- Molly the matchstick girl is going to be a real heartbreaker.
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Mike O'Connor
2.0 out of 5 stars Holmes-Lovecraft Misfire!
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2009
Silly me. Here I thought this graphic novel was going to be an interesting journey back to Sherlock Holmes' London as seen by those street-smart urchins known as the "Baker Street Irregulars." But, no, this tale quickly jettisons Watson and Holmes and plunges Wiggins & Co. into yet another "tampering with nature/unleasing forces beyond the grave" mishmash that has almost nothing to do with Holmes, London, Victorian life, times and crimes, etc.

THE IRREGULARS feature Moriarity - naturally - who has gone beyond robbery, murder, extortion, etc. and now wants to bring the god-awful "Dark Ones" out of their interdimensional prison to wreck and ruin dear old London and the immediate vicinity. The irregulars - who I have to admit are nicely delineated and have the lingo down pat - travel into the rift with some help from Professor Challenger and a violin-laying deaf mute to do battle.

I thought the tale was a poorly grafted together combination of Doyle and Lovecraft with a little Stargate thrown in the mix. Lots of huge, tentacled creeply-crawlies, shape-shifting ghouls, foreign-language gobblydegook, etc. Holmes, it ain't! I also had mixed feelings about the artwork. Sometimes I felt it was too much; so much detail being crammed into a panel you didn't know where to focus.

I certainly wouldn't mind a return visit from the Irregulars if the authors anchored their adventures in the correct time and place. (News flash: Real-life Victorian crime was fascinating!) But if it's going to be more world-ending beasties, I'll take a pass. Not recommended.
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J. Shurin
3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly silly Cthulhu/Holmes pastiche
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2008
The Irregulars features Sherlock Holmes' rag-tag group of street urchin informants, the Baker Street Irregulars. The group (all of whom are surprisingly clean with good dental hygiene) set off the clear the name of their good friend and mentor, Doctor Watson. The kids soon find themselves in too deep, as the villain (predictably Moriarty) seems to be tinkering with something eldritch. In fact, he's doing something a bit squamous as well, and it all goes quickly tumbling down into the Lovecraftian well.

The realm of Lovecraftian/Sherlockian fiction has tempted a lot of writers, and none of them (with the notable exception of  Neil Gaiman ) have ever handled it very well. The Irregulars tries very, very hard to be up to the challenge of being a pastiche of both genres, and winds up failing at both. The Sherlock bits are decidedly un-Sherlock and the Lovecraftian bits reek of Lin Carter. The ambition is there, but the execution is not.
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