This was much better than I thought it would be. Well done Alan Moore!The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen takes place during the Victorian Era in London and it is a steampunk version of the British Empire. A mysterious head of British Intelligence (Mr. M) wants to put together a League to combat extraordinary threats to the Empire.This first volume has Mina Murray ( from Dracula- Harker's wife) acting as the recruiting agent. The first few stories show how each member was recruited from opium-...

It's easy to see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol.1 as a fluffy action confection. It doesn't smack you in the head with a puddle of blood and a happy face pin like Watchmen. Nor does it open with a girl about to be raped in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Fascist London like V for Vendetta. It doesn't open with extreme gravitas. Instead, we get a fun variation of the classic spy mission opener: Mina Murray (nee Harker, nee Murray) is ordered on a mission by Campion Bond (grandfather of 007) to

I don't know if it was good, but it held my interest.Was it just morbid fascination as to what these awful characters would do next or was it because the plot was actually great?No idea.You have a bunch of reimagined literary characters who are all (mostly) the worst version of themselves that Moore could imagine. And they are all being recruited (mostly) against their will to work for the British government as (basically) an anti-terrorist unit that protects Brittain against large threats.Suppo...

Wow!!! I should've known that Alan Moore, the man behind V for Vendetta and Watchmen, would bring his A-game for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I can only describe as the best graphic novel I've read in a long time. Fun and full of action, the story twisted in a way that I wasn't expecting but was still easy to follow. Nice to have in there characters we're already familiar with (Holmes, Jekyll & Hyde etc). THIS is how a graphic novel is done.

"Well, gentlemen, at least we now know why we're here. British Intelligence [has] assembled us to thwart a plot against the Empire." -- Ms. Wilhelmina Murray, a.k.a. 'Mina Harker'Now here was an inspired and rousing but yet problematic sci-fi / adventure story, which is chiefly known or remembered (other than inspiring Sean Connery's final cinematic outing before retirement - I haven't seen said film version) for uniting several fictional British characters for a group effort at the close of the...

I love that the concept fits so well with Alan Moores writing style, it's filled with loads of references of british literature and I must admit I don't know half of them. It isn't only fun its also incredibly bold with the jokes, something you don't see anymore in todays comics. A clear 5.0 out of 5.0 stars for me.

Alan Moore has had terrible luck with the film industry. The only adapatation of his work that he had the presence of mind to disavow before its release was the surprisingly good "V for Vendetta." The others of his works produced for the screen were the tepidly-received "From Hell" and the god-awful "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" adaptation, "LXG."The film was stillborn, creatively, lacking the tongue-in-cheek humor and moral ambiguity that made the books so enjoyable, and was very obviousl...

Sorry...not my cup of English Breakfast Tea. I found it rather disappointing. I'd never read any of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen before this, I'd only seen the movie (of course it was a bit disappointing to so...)This, like a lot of books that I've been disappointed in is one I think is a good idea. It just doesn't, "come off". Willamina who is not Mina (am I the only one who actually read that novel????). Allan Quatermain is an opium addict, Captain Nemo is still trucking around under

Being quite the fan of Alan Moore’s Batman and Watchmen stories, I had The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen recommended to me for a long time. My friend has loaned to me the omnibus edition, so I shall be reading and reviewing Volume 1 and 2 separately.One of the opening tales features Chevallier C. Auguste Dupin investigating the deaths of a mother and daughter in the Rue Morgue. As I really enjoy Poe’s work, this appealed to me from the get go and piqued my interest for the rest of the compen...

Bah. This was another disappointing read for me. I had high hopes for this series. This book brings together a problem-solving team composed of characters from Victorian lit: Mina Murray (whose brief marriage to Jonathan Harker has ended badly), the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, and Henry Jekyll & Edward Hyde. While Sherlock Holmes is not present in the flesh, he is certainly on everyone's minds. How could such a premise go wrong? Maybe Moore just needs a lot more space and time...

1.5 to 2.0 stars. I was really disappointed with this graphic novel after going into it was high expectations. Not quite bad enough to rate 1 star as there are some clever scenes and some of the dialogue is engaging. On the whole though, this is an AMAZING CONCEPT that deserved better treatment than it received here.

Great good fun!Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill collaborate on a TASTY! tale where characters from literature and pulp fiction inhabit an alternate Victorian England and band together to save the empire and have a rousing fine rime of it.Readers will enjoy Moore’s penchant for adding detail to his DELICIOUS! mix of HAVEATYOU! with inclusions of characters from Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Allan Quartermain Mythos and the Invisible Man.And of course there is Jules Verne’s...

Alan Moore’s steampunk mashup of Victorian and turn-of-the-century actions heroes and penny dreadful characters doesn’t have the existential grime of “Watchmen”, but damn it, it’s fun – even when Moore’s signature darkness creeps into the otherwise fairly standard action/mystery narrative.A man named Campion Bond hires a freshly divorced Miss Wilhelmina Murray to recruit the (now disgraced and opium-addled) famous adventurer Alan Quatermaine and an exiled Dr. Jekyll to join her aboard the Nautil...

In a word? Underwhelming.In a sentence? Boring as hell, needlessly bleak, & oversexed to the point of annoyance. The elephant in the room is, of course, the movie adaptation. While I'm not blind to the flaws of the film (namely the varied FX quality & the sprawling plot that bounces from one stage to another), I'm not ashamed to say I prefer the screen version. Indeed, I'll go a step further & admit to a great cinematic crime: I like the movie. It makes me smile. This book, however, does not. Ce...

I found this utterly entertaining. What i loved most are the dialogues. The way the characters talk to each other is just beautiful.Can't wait to continue with the series <3

Great concept, terrible execution. Moore manages to reduce about a dozen Victorian adventure classics to fit into his apparently pea-sized brain, and out comes this. This book offended both my conservative and my liberal impulses, with banal pornographic sequences, flat, amoral "heroes" and offensive Asian stereotypes. (Moore has less sympathy for Chinese people than Tolkien has for orcs.) This book certainly isn't suitable for children, and it's too childish for me. So I don't know who the audi...

While I liked this, it did take me at least three chapters to get into it, or care about the characters. We have a group of rather strange characters, whom most will recognize from some of the classic horror and sci-fi tales, working for a man they don't know really know anything about, and of course, the true boss, hiding in the shadows. The stories are interesting, and kept my attention, but I wasn't truly into it until the characters started forming bonds and being emotionally invested. One t...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen created quite a stir when it appeared and I intended to pick it up long ago, but then I saw the film and didn't think it was very good so I lost any enthusiasm for it. I've finally gotten around to it, and I'm glad that I did. It's basically a very well written Victorian version of the Avengers, utilizing famous literary characters from the end of the 19th century. (Penny Dreadful did the same thing several years afterwards told from a horror-genre perspecti...

Wonderful! Ms Mina Murray gets her boys into shape- Captain Nemo, Dr Jekyll and Edward Hyde, the Invisible Man and Alan Quartermain, Ex opium addict come together to battle against the evil Dr. Moriarty.

I was so not impressed by this. It's my first Alan Moore book, and possibly my last because this just really didn't float my boat. We see a lot of racism and sexism straight away, and a lot of brutality. I don't really mind brutality in graphic novels, but this was just silly and I wasn't interested in the story. The art was rubbish-y (although art is fairly personal so some may like it, it's just not my style) and the story was just a lot of nonsense (again, in my opinion). Sadly, not for me. 1...