League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

[Zbu Manowar]

Originally Posted by Nick

The first two volumes were great. All the characters and cameos coming straight out of the pages of various Victorian era novel characters. If you're not a big fan of that sort of things, the actually story is good as well. The beginning tells of the group being formed. The rest of the first volume, as well as volume two is about their extraordinary adventures.

Not all of it was Victorian: the beginning of the second book has a few characters from early twentieth century works that I won't say here. They're from the pulp genre, however, but still twentieth century.

That said, I should pick this up to see just what it's about. I dig the whole idea of intertextuality and the fantastic and think Moore could hold his weight with these. Granted, I don't see how he could do a 21st Century one of these but hope springs eternal....that, and seeing the lead characters of American Psycho and Prozac Nation leading a League of their own just makes me laugh.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Zbu Manowar

Not all of it was Victorian: the beginning of the second book has a few characters from early twentieth century works that I won't say here. They're from the pulp genre, however, but still twentieth century.

That said, I should pick this up to see just what it's about. I dig the whole idea of intertextuality and the fantastic and think Moore could hold his weight with these. Granted, I don't see how he could do a 21st Century one of these but hope springs eternal....that, and seeing the lead characters of American Psycho and Prozac Nation leading a League of their own just makes me laugh.

From what I can tell Alan Moore has already screwed this series over.