Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
by:
Alan Moore (author)
Kevin O'Neill (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781401207519 (1401207510)
Publish date: August 19th 2008
Publisher: Wildstorm
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Steampunk,
Alternate History,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book
Series: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I got this autographed by the artist Kevin O'Neill in 2010.
I loved the first two volumes of League, but this is pretty crappy. I have a theory that Moore wrote this just to mess with overeager fanboys who insist on pretending they love everything he does; it honestly feels like he's putting a lot of effort into making it totally unreadable. In which case,...
There are some good parts here but the total is less than the sum of the parts. Not much of a plot, just a hodgepodge of ideas; like Moore is unpacking a trunk full of magic props that he doesn't have time to develop into an act but wanted us to see the cool bits and pieces anyway.
Compared to the previous League works, this was at times way overdone. While a lot of readers seem to lavish Moore with praise, in a way, this was reminiscent of the creative extension assignment I used to give my high school students when we read 1984 in class; that often had mixed results. It remi...
Enjoyed this tremendously, as a dense lovely object (including the 3-d section), as a dense lovingly-allusive text (even when references to Bulldog Drummond or other bits of English pop arcana eluded this poor American boy's grasp), as a smart and engaging treatise on the uses and pleasures and dang...
15 years ago
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