Reading

[prillalar]

I'm still a week behind on Angel -- and I still don't know why -- so whilst I'm trying to avoid spoilers, here's some other blather.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore (story) & Kevin O'Neill (pencils)

I read this yesterday afternoon at the pub and was strongly impressed. Alan Moore is a fucking genius. And I really enjoyed O'Neill's angular style.

If you're not familiar with the premise, this is a comic mini-series wherein various Victorian age figures from many different literary sources join together to save England.

The story is suitably grand and the characters -- Mina Harker, Alan Quartermain, and Captain Nemo among them -- are vastly entertaining. But the most fun is the reference hunting: trying to place the minor characters, reading signs in the background, finding unusual gadgets.

This is a mature comic and I really appreciate that. It deals with adult subject matter as well as with the fantastic. It's funny too. And Mina kicks all kinds of ass.

Get a copy, go to the pub, read it all. You'll be glad you did.

Comments

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

I recently read and loved LoEG too, and found this wonderful guide (http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/League%20of%20Extraordinary%20Gentlemen/LoEG%20index.htm) to all those little obscure details. I didn't realize that nearly every named character, however minor, is actually from *somewhere*. :)

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[prillalar]

Ta for this! There were many things I couldn't work out.

[illiterate.livejournal.com]

That very comic is sitting in my backpack and I've not yet had the time to read it. Now I'm even more excited to do so.

[prillalar]

Lucky you! I meant to add in my post, only I was late for work: When you're at the pub, have a double Pimms with 7-Up and lime to enhance the experience.

Or, you know, Guinness.

LXG

[mooncatx.livejournal.com]

Well, I was already planning to see the movie, with Sean Connery *woo hoo* and knowing the vampire chick is Mina Harker is icing on the cake. I will run to the bookstore later today to check out if they have the comic/and or trade/hard? back collection. I have friends who collect, but they are terrible at keeping thier books in order =( but then I'm probably anal as I have all my own stuff alphabetical in about 40 long boxes of comic book goodness. Yes I am a comic addict. Yes somehow I managed to miss League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The movie is certainly generating a lot of interest in the original series. Lots of people I know who never picked up the comic are planning on seeing the movie and are thinking of picking up the comic (or borrowing it off someone)

Sadly, the one main character I'm rather in the dark about is Alan Quartermain.

Well off to go play with my boy kitty Riot. He's screaming his head off in the back yard because no one is paying attention to him and probably leading my neighbors to think unkind thoughts about me. *sighs*

mooncat
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Re: LXG

[prillalar]

I dunno how good the movie will be, but it should be fun at least. But I'm glad that it made me want to read the comics because I would have been missing out otherwise.

Also I want to dig out the old Alan Moore Excaliburs, but alas, unlike you, I am not so tidy with my comics. *g*