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Loading... League of Extraordinary Gentlemen : Century : 1910 (edition 2009)by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
Work InformationThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 3 Part 1: Century: 1910 by Alan Moore (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The first installment of the eagerly anticipated League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century introduces the new team of Mina Harker, Alan Quatermain, Orlando, Thomas Carnacki, and Anthony Ruggles. This group, while not as engaging as the previous incarnation, entertains and thrills in their encounters with Alastair Crowley, Mack the Knife, and Pirate Jenny. A far more linear and cohesive story than [b:Black Dossier|107009|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198801768s/107009.jpg|6156669] (required reading for understanding many elements in Century), Moore intelligently uses operatic tropes and incorporates countless aspects of history and pop culture into the League mythos for this rollicking good adventure tale. This 96-page graphic novel relates a complete adventure but leaves enough dangling threads for the follow-up: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1968. I just ground through a goddam pile of league of extraordinary gentlemens and the basic criticisms I have to make about them all are mostly the same (weirdly crypto–"things were better in my day," at least literarily; too much rape for no reason; too much glee taken in the killing and killing; queasy racial stuff that you get the feeling the authors'd try to pass off as pastiche; easter egg obscurities that get obscurer and obscurer in the same proportion as they get thicker and thicker on the ground). This one has more than some to counterbalance those cons: a "Mack the Knife" storyline; a singing social conscience à la Les Misérables; a relatively complex rendering of the Nemo filial dynamic and a strong female lead trying to come out of her father's shadow. Just too bad her heroic origin story involves her getting gang-raped (not only a prime case of the monsters in Moore's and O'Neill's brains showing their claws, but also a fucking cliché) and then unleashing mass death on the Thames waterfront (you're not impressing anybody, boys). The first part of Century takes place between Volume 2 and The Black Dossier. This is the start of a story that will run throughout the twentieth century. Here we find Mina and Allan (pretending to be his own son) working with a new iteration of the League with Carnacki, A.J. Raffles, and the immortal Orlando as members. This League is not as strong as the 1898 team, and it shows in their actions. Carnacki has a vision of Oliver Haddo (character from The Magician) and his cult beginning an apocalyptic plot, the League tries to learn what their plan is and stop it. Meanwhile, Captain Nemo passes away and his daughter tries her best to run from her fate as his successor. Moore does such an amazing job of incorporating even more references than previous League stories, putting Jess Nevins' hair on end (Nevins has annotated every volume of the League, and Moore has even stated that he attempted to stump Nevins in the Almanac tales at the end of Volume II). A good majority of the story behind this chapter of Century comes from Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Moore even has the characters sing the lyrics within the story. It's put together brilliantly. As always, Moore includes additional tales at the end of the book, here a series of short stories that tell what is happening with the members of the League in 1236 BC (Bio, aka Orlando), 1910 (Allan and Mina shortly after the end events of this chapter of Century, and 1964 (after the Black Dossier affair, before the next chapter of Century: 1969). The tale of Bio and Allan and Orlando (both involving Orlando in his/her female form) are extraordinarily steamy. Good bridging story between Volume II and The Black Dossier, need to read the other two chapters to really get an idea of how this Volume works as a whole. no reviews | add a review
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In Victorian-era England, Minna Murray, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Alan Quartermain are gathered and sent on a mission to stop a criminal mastermind from firebombing the East End of London. No library descriptions found.
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So, I will probably read the next one, but I am keeping my expectations low. If this does not get better, not sure I will go to the third and last. Which would be sad since I am a big fan of Moore's other works ( Watchmen, V for Vendetta, so on). ( )