Preview of new League of Extraordinary Gentleman

[Krug]

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Color pages: Preview of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century #1 (NSFW)

Looks good. Spoilers of course. Some lovely art there.

 

[Megaton]

I'm definitely going to be tentative after the way that the first one turned out. I thought it would be cool was severely disappointed by the quality of the film.

Still, it's cool source material, so I'm down to check this out if the stuff that I see further down the road looks promising.

 

[Remus Lupin]

It looked good to me. I'm curious as to who the two guys on the last page are, and who the "he/she" is. It would be nice to see Nemo back again, though, or his daughter.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

It looked good to me. I'm curious as to who the two guys on the last page are, and who the "he/she" is.

Based on the names they give, I'm guessing "Raffles" is A. J. Raffles, the "Gentleman Thief" and "Carnacki" must be Thomas Carnacki. Not sure who the he/she is supposed to be, though.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Nice, looks cool so far. Hopefully it will make up for the somewhat disappointing Black Dossier.

 

[Mallus]

Looks interesting. But then I loved The Black Dossier.

Something that features a Tijuana bible written in Newspeak and a Jeeves/Cthulhu mashup is genius in my book.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Looks interesting. But then I loved The Black Dossier.

Something that features a Tijuana bible written in Newspeak and a Jeeves/Cthulhu mashup is genius in my book.

It certainly had moments of genius, but as a whole I found it a bit of a chore. I think each section individually is amazing, but taken all together it was a slog to get through. I guess I would have preferred there to be more story and less "reference material", for lack of a better term.

 

[Mercutio01]

It certainly had moments of genius, but as a whole I found it a bit of a chore. I think each section individually is amazing, but taken all together it was a slog to get through. I guess I would have preferred there to be more story and less "reference material", for lack of a better term.

That is an excellent way of putting it. I felt the same way about The Black Dossier.

This new sequence looks promising, and the inclusion of A.J. Raffles (presumably) is particularly awesome. I read Raffles before I picked up Holmes. In fact, I think Raffles might have been the first character out of Victorian literature that I read, followed shortly thereafter by Dracula and then Holmes. In any case, I remember reading Raffles stories as an elementary school student, which awed my language arts teacher at the time.

 

[Wombat]

I keep wanting to like LXG ... and failing. I know people complain about the movie, but the comic was really not much better; some great ideas, but dragged down with a lot of rather pointless gratuitous violence and childish sexual situations. The core concept is marvelous, but that is about as far as it went.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Well, I received it in the mail today. It was ok, but definitely felt like a setup for another volume rather than a story in its own right. More like the first chapter than an entire story.

And by the way, the he/she refers to Orlando.