Extraordinary Good Comic Book by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
February 23, 2009
In 1898 Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Hawley Griffin, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde walked in the street of London. Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999) is great adventure, and tempt to return to the old adventure books. Perhaps the adventure literature and comics are not dead yet.
The story is teeming literature references, and it's the combination of the realism and fantasy. Artist Kevin O'Neill has created a fantastic London. Drawings reflects the late 1800s rapid industrialization and unconditional faith to the triumph of the technology. The mechanical technology reminds a movie The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus) by the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (2003) comic book is located to the world created by H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau... Alan Moore has gone even further to the mixing worlds together.
Evil space invaders is left to the side, when Moore focuses to deepening the main charcters. Sex and violence has increased, while the action has been reduced. Dr Jekyll's nervousness, Invisible Man's misantrophy and Mr. Hyde's profanity is the best in the League, as well as perverted and unresolvable tasks and games at the end of the second book.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier (2007) has never been published outside of America. The book includes 3D-section and classes, and hardcover limited print includes LP-record. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century is also known by title 1910. Series appeared in April 2009.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie came in 2003. Allan Quatermain was played by Sean Connery, and the new members of the League was Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer.
Other extraordinary publications:
- A Blazing World by Jess Nevins. Including analysis of each panel of the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Heroes and Monsters slipcase by Jess Nevins. Including essays on the literary origins of the members of the League
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - The Absolute Edition Vol. 1. slipcase
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - The Absolute Edition Vol. 2. slipcase
