The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a terrific comic book by Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and widely considered one of the best comic-book writers). The premise of the comic: In late Victorian London, a team of characters from pulp fiction (Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Murray from Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde) are assembled to protect the British Empire from various threats. It's a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek piece of metafiction, complete with cameos by a veritable Who's Who of Victorian literature and a sternly moralizing narrator. There have been some major changes for the movie, but I'm hoping it won't suck too much, 'cause damn it's good.
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Date: 2003-03-24 08:51 am (UTC)The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a terrific comic book by Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and widely considered one of the best comic-book writers). The premise of the comic: In late Victorian London, a team of characters from pulp fiction (Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Murray from Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde) are assembled to protect the British Empire from various threats. It's a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek piece of metafiction, complete with cameos by a veritable Who's Who of Victorian literature and a sternly moralizing narrator. There have been some major changes for the movie, but I'm hoping it won't suck too much, 'cause damn it's good.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563898586/qid=1048524608/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-0819340-3136719?v=glance&s=books