Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill take readers on a most fantastic voyage
The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman: The Black Dossier
By Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
Americas Best Comics
Cover price: $29.99; Available now
suggested for mature readers
One of the most intriguing parts of the second League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen series was the "New Traveller's Alamanac" stories in the back of the comics.
While our Victorian Age heroes and heroines valiantly battled a Martian invasion in the main story, a text story afterward described, among other things, Captain Nemo meeting Captain Hook and Long John Silver; an encounter between The Nautilus and The Yellow Submarine (yes, the one in The Beatles cartoon movie); and references to the League members visiting America and passing by Zorro's villa in California, the logging town of Twin Peaks, and visiting the New England community of Stepford with its "proverbially pretty and agreeable womenfolk."...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Comic Review: The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman -- The Black Dossier
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