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WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT NATHAN NEVER
THE WAN AND LONELY BYRONIC HERO OF THE FUTURE,
by
Antonio Salvatore Sassu. An article in La Nuova Sardegna,
25th May, 2000:
"Up until now Nathan's adventures have been well received, mainly because
of the script and characters…".
NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE, by Thomas Martinelli. An article
in Amica, 22nd March, 2000:
"Cyber-crepuscular, with the melancholia of Bogart and the style of Indiana Jones. A detective divided between action and pre-technological nostalgia, having to contend with the State yakuza in a Los Angeles more like Tokyo. He's the hero of the century to come…".
AND STEVEN SPIELBERG WILL MAKE A FILM TAKEN FROM NATHAN NEVER, by
R.F. An article in Il Secolo XIX, 29th January, 2000: "It isn't the first Italian
comic the cinema industry and Hollywood have taken up. As well as Duccio Tessari and
Giuliano Gemma's famous 'Tex', Bonelli recalls a script, never released, about Mister
No and the film career of Dylan Dog. For some years now Hollywood has been working on
a film after blocking the rights to it…".
NATHAN NEVER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SAD AND SLOVENLY "NOBODY", editorial in the column "Eroi di
carta", in La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 15th December 1996:
"He was supposed to be called Nathan Nobody and he was going to have been
"slovenly, introverted and a little sad". Nathan Never's secrets have been revealed
by Antonio Serra himself, the father of the Bonelli hero, one of Italy's best-selling
comics…".
THE ALFA AGENT'S YOUTH, by Roberto Genovesi.
An article
in Avvenimenti, 4th. September 1996:
"By now he is a national comic institution. He has exceeded the sixty-issue
threshold, excluding the special editions. And now he reveals
his past to us…".
FUTURE DIMENSION, by Mauro Gervasini. Interviewed by Antonio Serra,
in Duel, November 1995: "The most innovative Italian comic strip hero,
he is personally involved in the contradictions of an apparently developed civilization,
which is on the verge of expanding its own knowledge towards the extremes of the
universe and beyond the barriers of time…".
NATHAN NEVER, by Oscar Cosulich.
Review by La biblioteca di Babele, in the column "Il Fumetto" in
L’Espresso, 11 August, 1995: "With a nodding reference to "450°
Fahrenheit", and fairly obvious reminiscences of Jorge Luis Borges and "The Name of the
Rose", the scriptwriter Antonio Serra, helped by the charming graphic style of Nicola
Mari, warns readers of today's cultural degeneration."
DOUBLE FUTURE, review by Stefano
Gorla, in Letture,
May, 1995: "Nathan Never was born in 1991. His adventures take place in the future of high technology, where hyper-space, cyber-space, male and female mutants with unusual abilities are the norm. He is for science-fiction what Tex Willer is to the Western or Dylan Dog to the horror story…".
SCIENCE-FICTION ITALIAN-STYLE, by Roberto Baietti. An article in Rimini Libri,
supplement to Il Ponte, May 1995: "In effect the Alfa special agent, Bonelli's latest human science-fiction character, is not only an extremely new creation but a new phenomenon in the field of Italian science-fiction…".
GHOSTS IN VENICE…BUT ONLY IN A COMIC, by Piero Zanotto.
An article in Il Gazzettino, 13th December, 1994: "Serra shows a deep love for Venice, defining it as a magical city by means of quotations with which he pays homage to the "Master" of Malamocco and winks at fans of the latter…".
NATHAN: HERO OF THE FUTURE, by Alberto Gedda. An article
in
Donna Moderna, 13th October,1994: "Romantic and resolute, Nathan is
an ex-policeman immersed in a world like "Blade Runner". The Alfa special agent
has in particular won the hearts of his female readers…".
NOW NATHAN NEVER IN COLOR,
by Bruno Ralli. An article
in L’Adige, 15th August, 1994:
"We are within the realms of the most mature and realistic science fiction,
more like "Blade Runner" than "Star Wars"…".
UP IN THE CLOUDS, by Giuseppe Salza.
An article in
Il Manifesto, 6th August, 1994: "The most feminist of Italian heroes is without doubt Nathan Never, a sort of gray-haired, Bladerunnian Rick Deckard who strolls around in an ever more cyberpunk future. He fights alongside Legs Weaver, a ferocious warrior who would cut any Adriatic Coast playboy to pieces. Partners therefore, not lovers, perhaps held back by their roles as special agents…".
OUR SON NATHAN, by Pietro Picciau. Interview with Medda, Serra and
Vigna in L’Unione Sarda, 29th December, 1993:
"For lovers of science fiction comics the figure of the reluctant agent may be credible, a mixture of 007 and private detective. Our merit? That of having had passion and a lot of determination…".
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