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This is a read once kind of book--"The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." If you've read LOEG, you know that is is packed full of characters from and references to other works of fiction. Mr. Nevins has gone through and made notes about them all. Since I'm not quite as well read as him, I loved paging through the book and finding out about the references I didn't catch. But now that I'm done, well, I doubt if I'll read it again. I mean, occasionally you get a referen...
Worth reading along with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.
Jess Nevins is my kinda man - a humble librarian interested in Victoriana and sci-fi/fantasy. Hot!This book is, of course, fun only if you've read the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel, which I admit might not be for everyone. But it's for me and Jess!
This is what you get:An Introduction by Alan Moore in which he explains how he began to include all sorts of fictional worlds into the League stories, mixing them together to create a complicated fictional counterpart to the real world.A foreword by the author explaining how he started off annotating the series on a website. Also some notes about Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill.Annotations to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 132 pages of these. To utilise them properly you need to have the gr...
A very helpful way to get the full experience out of the first volume of League of Extraordinary Gentleman. The essays in the back are a little less strong and ever towards the pompous a few times, but overall, they're informative and interesting.
This volume is comprised of the exhaustive annotations to the first collected volume of Alan Moore's unprecedented graphic novel series League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a forward by Moore himself, a couple of essays by the author, and an interview of Moore conducted by the author.Jess Nevins is a librarian who also happens to be an expert on and enthusiast of Victorian era literature. Nevins originally posted his exhaustive annotations online, and, after receiving additional submissions from o...
Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentleman reprints all of the information from Nevin’s popular website plus biographies and analyses of all the major players, commentary by Kevin O’Neill, introduction by Alan Moore, and an interview with Moore. All this wrapped in a gorgeous John Picacio cover. Nevins’ book is not needed to enjoy League, but it will greatly enhance your reading pleasure.
The unofficial companion to volume I of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, with panel by panel explication of the numerous literary and cultural references.
A great, and quite necessary, companion to the first LoEG volume, which has definitely piqued my interest in 19th century (and older) fiction. The annotations are a little more detailed and refined than on Nevins' website, but I did like seeing the guest contributions and the kind of progress and piecing together of the puzzle that I got from reading the web version. The essays were interesting, but tended to just refer to a list of other titles a bit much. The interview with Moore was excellent...
A great book about the first volume of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, complete with "easter eggs" that can be found in its pages. The book also talks about the origins of the main characters in literature and their influence in popular culture, ending with an interview by the author with Alan Moore.
Anexo informativo del primer volumen de League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Half the genius of LoEG are the innummerable literary, etc., references hidden within. Nevins supplement opens up the in-jokes to all of us laymen so that we too can be part of the club. This work allows one to much better appreciate the effort Moore and O'Neill put into the books. The additional material in this volume also provides solid backgrounds on LoEG's major players, which is right handy for those of us not completely familiar with all of the original material. Smashing interviews to bo...
Jess Nevins attempts to catalogue all the literary characters, places and things Alan Moore included in his 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics.He's a brave man and has created a reference book that is almost as much fun to read as the source.As a literature geek, I knew a lot of this, but was glad to find out about the ones I missed or guessed wrong about.
Für Detektive und NeugierigeDass Moore mit "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" einen modernen Klassiker des Comicgenres erschaffen hat ist wohl nicht anzuzweifeln. Das herausragende an diesem Werk ist die Einbindung von so vielen Quellen, versteckten Hinweisen, dass selbst bei intensiver Lektüre dem neugierigen und inquisitiven Leser Fragen offen bleiben. Diese Fragen beantwortet dieses Buch hier für den ersten Band von LoEG.Welcher Vorlage folgt dieser Charakter auf Seite 23, Panel 2? In einem
Highly recommended, as well as a great guide to the layers of reference in Moore and O'Neil's work, it is also a fantastic jumping-off point for a whole range of interesting (and often half-forgot) literature.
