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July 25, 2007
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Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill --
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", Vol 1. (1999-2000)
(graphic novel)
My first exposure to
this comic didn't leave The drive of the story
me very impressed, but derives from a slightly
this graphic novel isn't silly mechanism: the
bad at all. reader is constantly
made to wonder about the
I don't usually have a "identity" of various
problem coming into a characters, i.e. what's
story in the middle, but their equivalency to the
maybe that's not figures of late 19th
adviseable with Moore. century fiction.
In the case with
The O'Neill artwork is the female lead,
full of interesting we're told
crazed futuristic immediately that
anarchronisms ala she's using her
"steam-punk" (not to maiden name, so
mention "Brazil", we know she has
"Wild, Wild West"...) some other name
we're more
familiar with.
She refuses to
remove a scarf,
suggesting neck
wounds, and
perhaps vampire
tales...
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