Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
by:
Alan Moore (author)
Kevin O'Neill (author)
From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen… Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life.Now it is 1941, and with her...
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From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen… Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life.Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, travelling with her ageing lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany’s notorious ‘Twilight Heroes’, a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse.Continuing in the thrilling tradition of Heart of Ice, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in a blazing new adventure, set in a city of totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares. Cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, lost in the black and bloody alleyways where thrive THE ROSES OF BERLIN.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00IO0H36C
Publish date: April 8th 2014
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Pages no: 56
Edition language: English
Series: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Captain Nemo and her husband Broad Arrow Jack, from the Burrage novel, infiltrate Berlin to rescue their daughter and son-in-law, Robur from Verne's Robur the Conqueror. Germany is ruled by Herr Hynkel, Chaplin's character from the Great Dictator, who has his own extraordinary team including Dr. Mab...
For my latest reading adventure, I've picked up a couple of graphic novels - a genre I have largely neglected to explore so far. Captain Nemo is one of my favourite Jules Verne characters. So, it is no surprise that I'm intrigued by any story that uses the theme of the rogue captain. This partic...