Books : The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781563898587
ISBN: 1563898586
Label: Titan Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: November 29, 2002
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 1138474
Studio: Titan Books Ltd
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Comics scriptwriting supremo Alan Moore's incredible, reinvention of classic heroes and villains - now available in an eagerly-anticipated paperback. What if some of the best loved literary characters in history were to band together to fight crime? What if Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr Henry Jekyll (together with his brutish alter ego Edward Hyde) and The Invisible Man were brought together by a Miss Mina Harker (who once had a dalliance with a certain Count from Transylvania), to fight the menace of Fu Manchu? Enter the extraordinary world of Alan Moore with this fantastic collection to find out!
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If you've never read anything by Alan Moore, this may just seem like a vulgar comic book to you. However, Alan Moore's goal was simply to retell the stories of classic writer's (with their intrinsic social commentary) in a modern medium.
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In the 1960s I loved the "Classics Illustrated" series of comics. The stories were based, as the title implies, on classic novels. Perhaps my favorite was "Master of the World," based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. The science fiction theme and the characters created a wonderful world that appeared as though it could be real, rather than the complete fantasy of Superman or Marvel's venerable lineup of mutants and superheroes.
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is reminiscent of those great Classics Illustrated comics, but with a much more adult edge. Early in the book we find Alan Quatermain addicted to opium and apparently well down the road to an oblivious death. We soon find Hawley Griffin, the "Invisible Man," creating multiple pregnancies attributed to either demons or saints. Clearly this story is far different from the comics I read as a youth. But what a story this is. While told with a distinctly adult edge, the story is an epic tale of some of the best literary characters of the Victorian era fighting against a villain intent on (what else?) conquering the world.
In the course of the travails of the dubiously phrased good guys a number of deaths occur, and the significantly less than pure predilections of our heroes form a dark base to a story that is nominally of good versus evil, but turns out to be more of evil versus not-as-evil.
The real marvel of the story is the style in which it was written. I have read ... Read More
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