By: Alan Moore
Illustrated By: Kevin O'Neill
Publisher: America's Best Comics; 1st edition
Publish Date: October 1, 2002
ISBN: 1563898586
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Classification: Fiction
Genre: Graphic Novel
Age Level: Older Teen/Adult
Series Title:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: VOL. 2
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910
Subjects: Literary References, 19th Century England, Steampunk, Graphic Novels, Superheros
Reader's Annotation: Introducing Mina Murray and Alan Quatermain and a host of other literary characters as they fight evil in the sky in 19th Century London. Alan Moore, Creator of the Watchmen and Kevin O'Neill illustrating, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen pays tribute to the league of the imagination.
Synopsis: According to Moore the League is to start a "Justice League of Victorian England" but as his work progressed it became something more. Moore said, in relation to literary characters and the importance of imagination, that "The planet of the imagination is as old as we are. It has been humanity's constant companion with all of its fictional locations, like Mount Olympus and the gods, and since we first came down from the trees, basically. It seems very important, otherwise, we wouldn't have it." In the league of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moore create an ode to that world. He introduces us to a cast of literary characters/heros. Meet Alan Quatermain, (the main character of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines), Mina Murray (the heroine of Stoker's Dracula, now divorced and dishonored by her unfortunate undead adventures with the prince of darkness & now donning her independent unmarried name Murray instead of Harker), Captain Nemo (Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island) , Henry Jekyll (and his beastly alter personality) and Hawley Griffin (the Invisible Man), and Professor James Moriarty the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes in the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Together they fight the Fu Manchu (threatening a potential evil in the sky as they strive to create the ultimate airship) of which London alone doesn't have the ability to protect itself from.
Notes: Although not well received, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was made into a film in 2003.
(Extreme Content Warning)
Trailer for LXG movie (For a justice league theme, I don't believe the film does it "justice"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VS10s8l-Eg
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