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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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