[4.5] Marvellous fun!I was disappointed by the original League graphic novel and film, yet, as I have a thing about characters placed at different points in history, had been quite irrationally drawn to Century since I first saw it. And a good thing that was too, it turns out.I really liked the art here (by Kevin O'Neill), energetic and caricature-like, perhaps made things that weren't fun seem a little too much fun, but hey, it's a comic. Also a hint of Modernism / Cubism to it at times, which

It’s hard to describe LOEG: Century 1910. I mean this in the most literal sense. This graphic novel is a handful, and as such almost defies description. First, the characters: I was an English major in college, and had no idea who any of these people are. Don’t expect any help from Alan Moore; there is almost no back-story. Raffles is a thief – we know this because he steals something. Carnacki is psychic – we know this because he has a vision. And Lando is an immortal hermaphrodite who switches...

I really, really, wanted to like this.For those not familiar--the original League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was an interesting idea in which Alan Moore took a number of characters from various stories that were all roughly contemporaneous in their setting, and meshed them together in a sort of "Victorian superhero team". So you had Mina Harker, Alan Quartermain, Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo, and the Invisible Man all teaming up to, well, fight crime. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that wa...

Let’s cut right to the chase: the current installment in Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is the first part of a trilogy and frankly doesn’t offer much other than what I hope is a setup for a big eventual payoff, so I say wait for the collected edition of all three parts. That’s the short of it and the long is about to follow, so if you don’t want to read spoilers bail right now.This 72-page first section of a trilogy takes place in 1910 (hence the chapter’s t...

I never thought I'll ever come across anything Alan Moore that I'll dislike but this issue's non-existent storyline concluded with a rape-revenge trope, so here we are.

Crammed with gratuitous allusions and gratuitous (female, of course) nudity. The larger apocalyptic plot arc seemed interesting, the actual contents of this book not so much.Not a fan of O'Neill's art.And was all that extensive cabaret singing really necessary?

The League of Extraordinary Gentleman is taken into all new times but Alan Moore. fast forward to 1910 and we are dealing with an all new league. Only Mina (she's a vampire so essentially immortal) Harker is still around.This time the story revolves around Capt Nemo's daughter- Janni. I shall not lie- I found Janni to be rather annoying. When her dying father asks her to take over the Nautilus, Janni comes up with the brilliant plan to just swim away and leave on a tramp steamer. She then ends u...

Stunning artwork from Alan Moore. I tried this on a whim because I loved the film and really enjoyed it in graphic form. It was funny, creepy and beautiful! I've just ordered Alan Moore's "From Hell" which is a tad larger...

Alan Moore provides another consistently high-quality League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with the new 1910 volume. This provides a more straight-forward story for readers, similar to the first two Volumes and after reading this straight through in one sitting, I'm very eager to see where the rest of Volume Three winds up going. Chronologically speaking, this book falls before the Black Dossier but I'd still recommend reading the prior work first before entering into 1910. While not outright requi...

This is much more to my satisfaction than BLACK DOSSIER, with more of Kevin O’Neill’s great art; but it didn’t have as much action as Volume 1 and Volume 2 and the new characters (with one exception) weren’t as exciting. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are gone, as is the Invisible Man. However, it’s part one of three and a set-up/introduction issue - - so I’ll expect more from the next two chapters. On a good note, this does not end in a cliff-hanger. The story is self-contained, although elements of i...

The League has always been Moore's best work in my opinion. "Watchmen" was dull and overrated, "V for Vendetta" is now hopelessly outdated, mired as it was in Thatcher's time, and his "Tom Strong" series hasn't got a pulse, just a bland post modern take on 50s sci fi. But I loved The LXG series. Vol 1 was great and even though Vol 2 got slated I really enjoyed it. I tried with Black Dossier but in the end it just collapsed under the weight of its own references. Moore's prose is very weak. He ma...

The new League storyline seems written for me and my personal obsessions... this episode is manic comedy, a penny dreadful musical, Bertold Brecht, nightmarish augury, and dreadful violence. Working up to be a metatextual rewrite of the last century. Looking good so far. The next episode will involve Rosemary's Baby and Jerry Cornelius...I can ask for nothing more. Appearances by characters from Iain Sinclair(and looking exactly like Iain Sinclair)and Hodgson among many others add to the referen...

This was a lot better than volume two, shorter and much better paced. The art continues to be beautifully grotesque. The new characters are fun as is the little crossover with From Hell. My favorite part is that this is essentially a musical and the songs happen to be the best thing Moore has written in the volume. There’s bad too and the worst of it is the same as usual, Alan Moore’s obsession with rape. Multiple characters get raped in this one.3.5/5

A little slower then most Leagues, but kind of liked this one. More with Orlando (my favorite character) and liked the Penny Opera feel to it too. Liked the Alister Crowley reference as well.

Finally, a LoEG story that is straightforward, well written, and solid from end to end. We follow the life of Captain Nemo's daughter "Jenni" as she comes to England to see her aged and dying father. She is offered the Nautilus but decides to live a normal life until a terrible fate intervenes and she is forced to raise the black flag and start slitting throats (no, really) Trigger Warning - RapeParental Warning - FF Nudity and sex scenes

'1910', the latest (2009) in Alan Moore's 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' is a bit of a potboiler by any standards. As usual, Moore assumes an in-depth knowledge in the reader of the highways and byways of past popular and esoteric culture, but whereas, in the past, the jumbling of images and themes appeared to be both coherent and instructive, here it is just showy. It is as if Moore was making sure that he got in all the references in '1910' that were left over from previous works. Wha...

With the third volume in this graphic novel series, writer Alan Moore, who also created The Watchmen, jumps his character forward quite a few years. The League, who is still part of the British secret service has changed quite a bit. Mina Murray is still a member, though now she is in charge along with a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain. All of their other partners have left. They have been replaced with another interesting set of literary/historical characters.First their is Carnacki, a ghost-find...

Better than the Black Dossier debacle. Not as good as the original books, partly because the members of the League are pretty blah this time. Can we get some personalities here? Storywise, I'm not sure what the point was. While I know that this is part 1 in a trilogy, it should still feel like it moved the narrative forward. Instead, it pretty much said at the end, "Oh, silly us, the story doesn't happen until NEXT time."

It’s great but not as great as volumes 1 and 2.

The League faces an existential question of its place in the twentieth century. Ten years into it, Mina Murray and her team of literary characters face a dark threat that threatens London and the rest of the British Empire.The cast simply could not match the gravitas of a team with Nemo, Quartermain, Jekyll, Hyde and Dorian Gray. I barely know the new additions but it's nothing Wikipedia can't shed light in a few finger strokes. But that's the thing, it's simply not as iconic as the original cre...