This was absolutely brilliant! Seeing Alan and Kevin interviewed at same time,seeing an image of Hyde come straight from kev's hand, the thinking behind some of the character portrayals.Unbelievable.
Actually she's only a vampire in the TLOEG film, In the comic she was attacked by Dracula and survived same as in the Stoker novel although her throat was permanantly scared.
In an interview last year in Tripwire Moore made his feelings about this whole subject pretty plain, "They know what my position is with this- I don't want any money from it, I want the money to go to Dave Gibbons and I want my name taken off of it. If they do that I will not make a squeak about the film. If they go for some other novelty option like they did with V For Vendetta then I'm in for another year of excoriating them in every interview I do until they remove my name from it".
Well one reason Moore hated that particular film was he got stuck in some lawsuit over the TLOEG film, And had to testify via video for hours on end that he hadn't stolen the characters he had created for TLOEG from some screenwriter or something like that, You can find details on the whole thing on the internet, Anyways that experience was one of the reasons for Moore vowing he would never let Hollywood touch any property of his again.
Mattnek- Alan Moore in Comics Britannia...He uses "we" when referring to his and the artist's collaboration and shows a real reverence for the entire medium's process and players. It is possible to have a graphic depiction convey a story and remain a comic book/graphic novel without words. When a book is composed of only words it remains literary,a book. Thus, the comic book/graphic novel is necessarily dependent upon "ants." Something to remember grasshopper. +1 to RoadWarriorSammy
The Absolute Edition of TLOEG Black Dossier came out today, The good news is this oversized edition showcases Kevin O' Neill's artwork beautifully far more so than the normal sized edition, The bad news is there's no extras like the record that has Moore singing which was supposed to have come with this package, According to DC it's 'unavailable', Fallout from the Moore/DC feud over the Watchmen film maybe?
yeah there is dirk gentlys holistic detective agency and the long dark teatime of the soul. i had people ask me what they were about and i honestly could not find a way to describe them.
"Kevin can be relied upon to take my most extreme ideas an upsetting 2 or 3 stages further..." Haahahahaa! I know I probably shouldn't find that so funny, but Alan's conversational elegance is in such stark contrast to the bland drivel I'm used to hearing spouted by mindless dregs on the TV.
cont But he explained that it was something he had worked that exact scene out in his mind and that he would be working it into an upcoming TLOEG storyline and that he really didn't want to spoil it for any of the readers. So I was perfectly happy with his sketch of Mina that he gave me for free, He also gave someone a really beautiful sketch on drawing paper of Captain Nemo which was gorgeous, O' Neill is a really nice guy and fun to talk with and I hope we'll be seeing him again.
@FriedEggsInTheSky "If you look at Kevin's artwork with a knowing eye, you can see traces, very strong traces, of the often brilliant British juvenile comicbook artists, like Leo Baxendale, people like Paddy Brennan, Dudley Watkins, and also great British caricaturists like Hogarth or Gilray. Kevin is a wonderful illustrator, he's a great comic artist in that he can tell sequential stories with incredible verve" Alan Moore, Heroes & Monsters, I was always into his work ever since Marshall Law.
Yeah in Stoker's novel Dracula's encounter with Mina isn't a romantic neck kiss leaving two little pin marks with Mina swooning in bliss like what you see in alot of Dracula/Vampire films, in the original novel it's a brutal bloody attack that's pretty close to a rape. "Not quite the two discreet puncture-marks of legend, are they?"
Me too, when I was up at the Big Apple Con Summer Sizzler show last June which had O' Neill as a guest, I had him sign my Absolute Editions of TLOEG Vol1 and 2, He was nice enough to do a sketch of Mina in my Vol 2 book, When he asked what I wanted I had asked him if he might could possibly try to do a sketch of Dracula coming into Mina's bedroom just seconds before he attacked her, I even offered to pay him whatever he would have wanted for that particular sketch.
It takes place in the Great Britain of George Orwell's 1984 although it also covers some of the history of The League the fact that they've been active since since the 16th century, You also get James Bond in it and quite a strong satirical skewering of 1950s British and American literature. The two main characters are Alan Quartermain from 'King Solomons Mines' and Mina Murray from 'Dracula' who are lovers and are trying to escape from a ruthless repressive dictatorship hunting them.
I did read it, and I like the failsafe he has included in it (the folder giving the Moonchild's name is labeled Will Stanton instead of, well you know.). Also there's a little cameo of the First and Eleventh Doctor when the League's remnants arrive at King's Cross... much like the Second Doctor showed up in 1969... I like the references, I really do.
I'll never forget Moore's take on M... P...... vs H..... P...... in this story. (read it) Moore & O'Neil have really taken the whole Wold Newton concept beyond anything I could have ever imagined.
I think I also remember Moore's conception of Dracula was that he had serrated teeth, I would kill for O'Neill to do a Dracula illustration for that Dracula/Mina TLOEG storyline I'm sure it would look like something out of a nightmare.
Moore's daughter Leah Moore is actually going to be doing a comicbook adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, In the latest 'Comicshopnews' there's an interesting interview with her and the subject of Mina as a character is mentioned, mainly how she'll be portraying Mina as opposed to how she's portrayed by her father in TLOEG.
I have enjoyed much of Miller's work, and see it as approaching a pinnacle of the graphic novel while sticking to the established boundaries. Moore, however, is in a different league: he pays little heed to convention and as a result is responsible (not quite, but almost, single-handely) for expanding and improving the genre. Not only has he mastered the graphic novel, but expanded it into new areas.
Just a little information for anyone who's interested, Kevin O' Neill will be a guest at the BigAppleCon Summerslash show in N.Y.C. on Sat June 13 2009, Go to bigapplecondotcom for more information.
The fact is that just about all of the central characters in TLOEG are in public domain I believe although when Moore used Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu as one of the villians he was never refered to by name just "The Doctor" I don't know if he's in the public domain or not, Moore also refered to Dracula who was again never refered to by name even though he's in the PD mainly because Moore didn't want him to overshadow the book the same reason Sherlock Holmes has such a small part in TLOEG world.
There is a six part interview with Kevin O' Neil over at thecomicsjournaldotcom in which he talks about his career going all the way back to Nemesis the Warlock and Marshall Law and all the way up to him and Moore first starting out with TLOEG and all of his experiences (good and bad) up to the present day.
I love this series, And I'm always reading Jess Nevins annotations of TLOEG, TLOEG The Black Dossier is finally coming out today everyone, Don't forget!
I love both the Graphic novels and the movie. The movie did well in overall sales and there was a call for a sequal but it never transpired. I hope they do one eventually. if only to see the LXG fight the Martians.
i didn't quite get LXG when i first read it... i went away and was like "that was awesome, that was amazing but nothing happened" that btw was not a bad thing... Moore shows that stories don't need to be action-packed to be (forgive me) extraordinary
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes Yeah, it's really essential to most readers who aren't experts on all the obscure references that Moore and O' Neil run through all of the LOEG stories which would likely fly over most readers heads as Moore himself said "Without these two companion volumes, I doubt that the experience of the original work would be as complete, And I also doubt that Kevin and I would have felt sufficiently liberated or encouraged to push the concept quite as far as we currently are"
Me to, Jess Nevin's website at Jessnevinsdotcom is probably the best place for an annotated reference guide for each and every issue of TLOEG in order to catch all the references Moore and O'Neil put in each book.
i loved these books i font know wich one is better 1 or 2 we will have to see when number 3 comes outs this year i havent read the black doser yet i orderd it can wait to read it
@john3000931 Sorry for that spoiler there, anyways the explanation in the original H.G. Wells story is that his blood becomes visible as it coagulates (clots).
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes Well everypart of the back stories in TLOEG Volume 1 & 2 is connected with literary characters both well known and obscure from Victorian literature, I find Jess Nevin's two books 'Heroes & Monsters' and 'A Blazing World' which are a panel by panel annotation of both TLOEG volumes and their back stories and just about every reference in them to be invaluable when reading TLOEG.
It also has a fair amount of suspense and tension and romance and all out adventure. You really need to check Jess Nevins comicbook annotations website for some reference and essential information on TLOEG and it's world. Fair warning though this isn't a casual read that you can just skim through, TLOEG really demands your time and investment if you want to read it just like reading Moorcock or Tolkein isn't a casual read, But once you really get into it you won't regret it.
@HolyFerdinand I haven't heard about the League being whittled down, the last I heard was that the final volume of Century would be ending up in the present day, I'm really looking forward to the next two volumes of Century, but am also slightly nervous about how Century might end, I've really gotten kind of fond of Alan and Mina.
I enjoyed the movie too. Surely there were flaws, wooden acting and it had huge plotholes, but I thought that it was fun to watch and see all of these classic book characters join together to help save the world.
I've always envisioned Crispin Glover as Jekyll, Amitabh Bachchan as Nemo, Michelle Trachtenberg as Mina Harker, and in a scandalous move, Sean Connery again playing Allan Quatermain. Maybe Ricky Gervais can do Griffin's voice.
I'm not a fan of comic books but I'm a HUGE fan of crossover fiction. I just can't get enouigh of crossover stories When I heard about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being a crossover of literature, I knew I needed to look up the roster. I was entrhalled to see it had as much characters as the Argonauts Quest for the Golden Fleece. Now the question remains if I should buy the first volume or not. Like I said, I'm not a fan of comic books but my love of crossovers are strong.
Over at Rich Johnson's website bleedingcooldotcom you can find an image for the upcoming Kevin O' Neill cover for The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1969 due out in 2011. It's psychedelic to say the least :)
Oh yes most definately, Get it as soon as you can unless you want to wait for the oversized 'Absolute edition' of TLOEG Black Dossier which may not come out till next year, Also be sure to check Jess Nevins outstanding comicbook annotations website which is essential when it comes to reading TLOEG The Black Dossier.
It was I think a dispute between 20th Century Fox and some screenwriter who claimed he had come up with the idea using Victorian literary characters ala the Wold Newton Universe for a film and claimed that Moore had stolen the idea from him in order to create TLOEG film, Ignoring the fact that Moore and O'Neil had created TLOEG comic several years before there was ever any talk of a film.
O.K. 1.Sherlock Holmes (a natural pick) 2.Huckleberry Finn 3.Elric 4.Lewis Caroll's Alice all grown up (we need some female interest) 5.The Frankenstein Monster (we also need a physical powerhouse) 6.Sam Weller from C Dickens 'The Pickwick Papers' (a bit of humor wouldn't hurt either) 7.Abraham Van Helsing (experience in the supernatural) 8.Buck from Call Of The Wild (everyone needs a mascot) 9.Philip Marlowe (a good contrast to Holmes) 10.Peter Pan
The League of Extra Ordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #1 Has just come out this week, Supposedly this is going to be Moore and O’Neill’s final TLOEG story. 😞 A pity if that’s the case I hope 🤞 it’s not, Still it’s been a wild and wonderful ride. 😌
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes The Jess Nevins annotated TLOEG books I mentioned are rather essential for understanding all the references you get in TLOEG or you can check on his website for free Geocitiesdotcom/ratmmjess/ annosdothtml which covers all of the LOEG volumes and which Moore and Kevin O' Neil have endorsed as an essential information source on the wild and wonderful world of TLOEG.
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes Uh no that's not what I said at all, the back stories are somewhat essential to TLOEG, for instance in Vol 2 it's revealed that Capt Nemo had a daughter, and the existance of Orlando is revealed who plays a major part in TLOEG not to mention the fact that Quartermain and Mina become immortals.
No Moore basically feels that film and comics are incompatable as artforms, But he's really pretty content with his share of the film profits going to the artists who cocreated his works. The one thing Moore cares about more than anything is not having his name on the film credits.
Not yet he hasn't, I met O'Neill after 'TLOEG Century: 1910 had been published back in June. That's been Moore and O'Neill's latest TLOEG issue so far.
an unfortunate accident involving an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands. in the end, it was the sunday afternoons he couldnt cope with. i love hitchhikers guide, and i am american by the way.
One should mention that the idea of Quatermain (not Quartermain) being found as a wasted drug addict is really lifted from Robert E Howard's character Steve Costigan being restored by Zuleika (who is, unbeknownst to him, acting on orders from her master Skull-Face), www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170653
Interesting picks, Bond is a bit of a villain in TLOEG The Black Dossier which came out recently although the LOEG TBD James Bond is different than Daniel Craig's portrayal of Bond in the film version of Casino Royale.
The new John Carter movie looks good - but what a pity Disney didn't at least look at the incredible vision of Burrough's Barsoom that Kevin O'Neill produced for Book 2 of the League of Extraordinary gentlemen.
You can tell reading the book that Moore loved writing for Mr. Hyde.
This was absolutely brilliant! Seeing Alan and Kevin interviewed at same time,seeing an image of Hyde come straight from kev's hand, the thinking behind some of the character portrayals.Unbelievable.
he is truly a clever clever man, I have alot of respect for him and his work
Alan Moore is a genius ..
Alan Moore: Legend
Actually she's only a vampire in the
TLOEG film,
In the comic she was attacked by Dracula and survived same as in the Stoker novel although her throat was permanantly scared.
In an interview last year in Tripwire
Moore made his feelings about this whole subject pretty plain,
"They know what my position is with this-
I don't want any money from it, I want the money to go to Dave Gibbons and I want my name taken off of it. If they do that I will not make a squeak about the film. If they go for some other novelty option like they did with V For Vendetta then I'm in for another year of excoriating them in every interview I do until they remove my name from it".
Out of all Alan Moore's collaborations, the Brundlefly of League is probably my favourite.
Top man. He always gives a lot of credit to his collaborators, which is very classy.
Alan Moore = Aweswome
Kevin O Neill = Excellent
Marshall Law was also amazing
Keep up the great work guys!
the art work in this blows my mind
Well one reason Moore hated that particular film was he got stuck in some lawsuit over the TLOEG film,
And had to testify via video for hours on end that he hadn't stolen the characters he had created for TLOEG from some screenwriter or something like that, You can find details on the whole thing on the internet,
Anyways that experience was one of the reasons for Moore vowing he would never let Hollywood touch any property of his again.
one of the few comics i read and i f@#king love it.
Mattnek-
Alan Moore in Comics Britannia...He uses "we" when referring to his and the artist's collaboration and shows a real reverence for the entire medium's process and players.
It is possible to have a graphic depiction convey a story and remain a comic book/graphic novel without words.
When a book is composed of only words it remains literary,a book. Thus, the comic book/graphic novel is necessarily dependent upon "ants."
Something to remember grasshopper.
+1 to RoadWarriorSammy
The Absolute Edition of TLOEG Black Dossier came out today, The good news is this oversized edition showcases Kevin O' Neill's artwork beautifully far more so than the normal sized edition, The bad news is there's no extras like the record that has Moore singing which was supposed to have come with this package, According to DC it's 'unavailable',
Fallout from the Moore/DC feud over the Watchmen film maybe?
I'm 20, and I still feel too young for "From Hell."
Bobgrey which one is that?
Im 20 now and have read From Hell. Its sooo good.
@@themanmrbijok7364 you were SEVEN when I wrote that
@@DixyRae have you read it yet?
@@Stevofaves NOPE! 🙃
yeah there is dirk gentlys holistic detective agency and the long dark teatime of the soul. i had people ask me what they were about and i honestly could not find a way to describe them.
i just never get tired of listening to moore:)
"Kevin can be relied upon to take my most extreme ideas an upsetting 2 or 3 stages further..." Haahahahaa! I know I probably shouldn't find that so funny, but Alan's conversational elegance is in such stark contrast to the bland drivel I'm used to hearing spouted by mindless dregs on the TV.
Hear, hear...
cont
But he explained that it was something he had worked that exact scene out
in his mind and that he would be working it into an upcoming TLOEG storyline and that he really didn't want to spoil it for any of the readers.
So I was perfectly happy with his sketch of Mina that he gave me for free,
He also gave someone a really beautiful sketch on drawing paper of
Captain Nemo which was gorgeous,
O' Neill is a really nice guy and fun to talk with and I hope we'll be seeing him again.
Terrific series of talks. Thank you.
@FriedEggsInTheSky "If you look at Kevin's artwork with a knowing eye, you can see traces, very strong traces, of the often brilliant British juvenile comicbook artists, like Leo Baxendale, people like Paddy Brennan, Dudley Watkins, and also great British caricaturists like Hogarth or Gilray. Kevin is a wonderful illustrator, he's a great comic artist in that he can tell sequential stories with incredible verve" Alan Moore, Heroes & Monsters,
I was always into his work ever since Marshall Law.
When he says Nemo at 0:43 It reminds me of Bruce from finding Nemo
You should indeed buy it ^^ Alan Moore is in my opinion one of the best writers
Yeah in Stoker's novel Dracula's encounter with Mina isn't a romantic neck kiss leaving two little pin marks with Mina swooning in bliss like what you see in alot of Dracula/Vampire films, in the original novel it's a brutal bloody attack that's pretty close to a rape.
"Not quite the two discreet
puncture-marks of legend, are they?"
What, the comic book? Naw I first read it when I was about 20, an loved it! Hadn't read anything like it before-Tis genius!
Me too, when I was up at
the Big Apple Con Summer Sizzler show last June which had O' Neill as a guest,
I had him sign my Absolute Editions of TLOEG Vol1 and 2, He was nice enough to do a sketch of Mina in my Vol 2 book,
When he asked what I wanted I had asked him if he might could possibly try to do a sketch of Dracula coming into Mina's bedroom just seconds before he attacked her, I even offered to pay him whatever he would have wanted for that particular sketch.
It takes place in the Great Britain of
George Orwell's 1984 although it also covers some of the history of The League the fact that they've been active since since the
16th century, You also get James Bond in it and quite a strong satirical skewering of
1950s British and American literature.
The two main characters are Alan Quartermain from 'King Solomons Mines' and Mina Murray from 'Dracula' who are lovers and are trying to escape from a ruthless repressive dictatorship hunting them.
I loved the LXG books:D
alan is so spot on when he thought about putting together literary characters for his own justice league. Superb.
I just read the first one, and all I can say is I WANT MORE
Also I can’t get enough of Hyde/Jekkyl
I did read it, and I like the failsafe he has included in it (the folder giving the Moonchild's name is labeled Will Stanton instead of, well you know.). Also there's a little cameo of the First and Eleventh Doctor when the League's remnants arrive at King's Cross... much like the Second Doctor showed up in 1969... I like the references, I really do.
Love this book series:)
I'll never forget Moore's take on M... P...... vs H..... P...... in this story. (read it)
Moore & O'Neil have really taken the whole Wold Newton concept beyond anything I could have ever imagined.
I think I also remember Moore's conception of Dracula was that he had serrated teeth,
I would kill for O'Neill
to do a Dracula illustration for that
Dracula/Mina TLOEG storyline
I'm sure it would look like something out of a nightmare.
Moore's daughter Leah Moore is actually going to be doing a comicbook adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, In the latest 'Comicshopnews' there's an interesting interview with her and the subject of Mina as a character is mentioned, mainly how she'll be portraying Mina as opposed to how she's portrayed by her father in TLOEG.
@john3000931 Because it's outside of his body. Under his skin, it'd be invisible, but outside, it could be seen.
I have enjoyed much of Miller's work, and see it as approaching a pinnacle of the graphic novel while sticking to the established boundaries.
Moore, however, is in a different league: he pays little heed to convention and as a result is responsible (not quite, but almost, single-handely) for expanding and improving the genre. Not only has he mastered the graphic novel, but expanded it into new areas.
I love Watchmen but the first two volumes of this book might be Alan Moore's best work.
Just a little information
for anyone who's interested,
Kevin O' Neill will be a guest at the
BigAppleCon Summerslash show in N.Y.C. on Sat June 13 2009,
Go to bigapplecondotcom
for more information.
You can tell Moore enjoyed writing Hyde the most. Hyde is easily the best character in the series.
My what a sharp eye you have-I agree, Kev is stylish in both dress and drawing =)
The fact is that just about all of the central characters in TLOEG are in public domain I believe although when Moore used
Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu as one of the villians he was never refered to by name just
"The Doctor" I don't know if he's in the public domain or not, Moore also refered to Dracula who was again never refered to by name even though he's in the PD mainly because Moore didn't want him to overshadow the book the same reason Sherlock Holmes has such a small part in TLOEG world.
So this is basically Alan Moore writing a fanfiction.
There is a six part interview
with Kevin O' Neil over at thecomicsjournaldotcom in which he talks about his career going all the way back to Nemesis the Warlock and Marshall Law and all the way up to him and Moore first starting out with TLOEG and all of his experiences (good and bad)
up to the present day.
Silver rings. He's a practicing magician or occultist or something.
I love this series, And I'm always reading Jess Nevins annotations of TLOEG,
TLOEG The Black Dossier is finally
coming out today everyone,
Don't forget!
BEST IDEA EVER!!!
This video is so good.
I guess you could say that the Griffin/Martian team-up was a family reunion
I love both the Graphic novels and the movie. The movie did well in overall sales and there was a call for a sequal but it never transpired. I hope they do one eventually. if only to see the LXG fight the Martians.
AMEN! There's just no comparison of that waste of celluloid to Moore and O'Neil's masterwork.
@Panzer4F2 "This is the life, eh Griffin? This is the life"
:-O
TLOEG Century: 1910
just came out today.
So far, all of the characters, except the invisible man in the movie Rodney Skinner, are all in the public domain.
i didn't quite get LXG when i first read it... i went away and was like "that was awesome, that was amazing but nothing happened" that btw was not a bad thing... Moore shows that stories don't need to be action-packed to be (forgive me) extraordinary
here's to existence without fake excuses! here here!
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes
Yeah, it's really essential to most readers who aren't experts on all the obscure references that Moore
and O' Neil run through all of the LOEG stories which would likely fly over most readers heads as Moore himself said
"Without these two companion volumes,
I doubt that the experience of the original work would be as complete, And I also doubt that Kevin and I would have felt sufficiently liberated or encouraged to push the concept quite as far as we currently are"
Me to, Jess Nevin's website at Jessnevinsdotcom is probably the best place for an annotated reference guide for each and every issue of TLOEG in order to catch all the references Moore and O'Neil put in each book.
i loved these books i font know wich one is better 1 or 2 we will have to see when number 3 comes outs this year i havent read the black doser yet i orderd it can wait to read it
Or JIMO probably Miller's Spirit movie being that Will Eisner was one of Moore's biggest influences.
you rock man
@john3000931 Sorry for that spoiler there, anyways the explanation in the original H.G. Wells story is that his blood becomes visible as it coagulates (clots).
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes
Well everypart of the back stories in TLOEG Volume 1 & 2 is connected with literary characters both well known
and obscure from Victorian literature,
I find Jess Nevin's two books
'Heroes & Monsters' and 'A Blazing World' which are a panel by panel annotation of both TLOEG volumes
and their back stories and just about every reference in them to be invaluable when reading TLOEG.
It also has a fair amount of suspense and tension and romance and all out adventure.
You really need to check Jess Nevins comicbook annotations website for some reference and essential information on TLOEG and it's world.
Fair warning though this isn't a casual read that you can just skim through, TLOEG really demands your time and investment if you want to read it just like reading Moorcock or Tolkein isn't a casual read, But once you really get into it you won't regret it.
@HolyFerdinand I haven't heard about the League being whittled down,
the last I heard was that the final volume of Century would be ending up
in the present day, I'm really looking forward to the next two volumes of Century,
but am also slightly nervous about how Century might end,
I've really gotten kind of fond of Alan and Mina.
I enjoyed the movie too. Surely there were flaws, wooden acting and it had huge plotholes, but I thought that it was fun to watch and see all of these classic book characters join together to help save the world.
Kevin is the best dressed comic artist, ever.
yeah i want to read it whats the story about?and what kind of features dose it have and what made you get confused at the ending
I need more of this WW1 fantasy world stuff. anyone got any suggestions.
Alrighty then. Ima check it out then. Are they sold in volumes or individually?
I've always envisioned Crispin Glover as Jekyll, Amitabh Bachchan as Nemo, Michelle Trachtenberg as Mina Harker, and in a scandalous move, Sean Connery again playing Allan Quatermain. Maybe Ricky Gervais can do Griffin's voice.
I'm not a fan of comic books but I'm a HUGE fan of crossover fiction. I just can't get enouigh of crossover stories
When I heard about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being a crossover of literature, I knew I needed to look up the roster. I was entrhalled to see it had as much characters as the Argonauts Quest for the Golden Fleece.
Now the question remains if I should buy the first volume or not. Like I said, I'm not a fan of comic books but my love of crossovers are strong.
TLOEG Century: 2009
Just came out today, a fun little read.
@ObsidianImages Your opinion, for me O'Neill is one of the all time greats and I can't imagine any other artist but him on TLOEG.
Over at Rich Johnson's website bleedingcooldotcom you can find an image for the upcoming Kevin O' Neill cover for
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1969 due out in 2011.
It's psychedelic to say the least :)
Oh yes most definately, Get it as soon as you can unless you want to wait for the oversized 'Absolute edition' of TLOEG Black Dossier which may not come out till next year, Also be sure to check Jess Nevins outstanding comicbook annotations website which is essential when it comes to reading
TLOEG The Black Dossier.
The Hyde & Invisible Man resolution was brilliant. What a great twist.
Kevin O'neill drew Torquemada in 2000ad brilliantly.
@thegmanofEAP What do you mean "I saw the film before the movie." ?
It was I think a dispute between
20th Century Fox and some screenwriter who claimed he had come up with the idea using Victorian literary characters ala the
Wold Newton Universe for a film and claimed that Moore had stolen the idea from him in order to create TLOEG film, Ignoring the fact that Moore and O'Neil had created TLOEG comic several years before there was ever any talk of a film.
No Wilhelmina Harker, neè Murray?
O.K.
1.Sherlock Holmes (a natural pick)
2.Huckleberry Finn
3.Elric
4.Lewis Caroll's Alice all grown up
(we need some female interest)
5.The Frankenstein Monster (we also need a physical powerhouse)
6.Sam Weller from C Dickens
'The Pickwick Papers'
(a bit of humor wouldn't hurt either)
7.Abraham Van Helsing
(experience in the supernatural)
8.Buck from Call Of The Wild
(everyone needs a mascot)
9.Philip Marlowe (a good contrast to Holmes)
10.Peter Pan
The League of Extra Ordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #1
Has just come out this week,
Supposedly this is going to be Moore and O’Neill’s final TLOEG story. 😞
A pity if that’s the case I hope 🤞 it’s not, Still it’s been a wild and wonderful ride. 😌
definitely yes...........
I've heard there are new League books coming out in 2009. I hope that's true.
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes
The Jess Nevins annotated TLOEG books I mentioned are rather essential for understanding all the references you get in TLOEG or you can check on his website for free Geocitiesdotcom/ratmmjess/
annosdothtml which covers all of the LOEG volumes and which Moore and Kevin O' Neil have endorsed as an essential information source
on the wild and wonderful
world of TLOEG.
@WeNeedSomeGolfShoes
Uh no that's not what I said at all,
the back stories are somewhat essential to TLOEG, for instance in Vol 2 it's revealed that Capt Nemo had a daughter, and the existance of Orlando is revealed who plays a major part in TLOEG not to mention the fact that Quartermain and Mina become immortals.
Anyone who doesn't appreciate Kevin O Neill's artwork is a wrong 'un. Easily my favourite comic artist.
Neat vid!
No Moore basically feels that film and comics are incompatable as artforms, But he's really pretty content with his share of the film profits going to the artists who cocreated his works. The one thing Moore cares about more than anything is not having his name on the film credits.
"QuaRtermain?" Did the producers of this video read any of Moore's material? (Or H. Rider Haggard's, for that matter?)
Not yet he hasn't, I met O'Neill after
'TLOEG Century: 1910
had been published back in June.
That's been Moore and O'Neill's
latest TLOEG issue so far.
Interesting to hear Alan talk about Kevin. Not sure I'd say LOEG is his best work...I don't think I can pin that down at all.
an unfortunate accident involving an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands. in the end, it was the sunday afternoons he couldnt cope with. i love hitchhikers guide, and i am american by the way.
One should mention that the idea of Quatermain (not Quartermain) being found as a wasted drug addict is really lifted from Robert E Howard's character Steve Costigan being restored by Zuleika (who is, unbeknownst to him, acting on orders from her master Skull-Face),
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@HolyFerdinand Well I willing to wait for the second installment of Century,
I really hope things don't go too badly for Alan and Mina.
Interesting picks,
Bond is a bit of a villain in
TLOEG The Black Dossier which came out recently although the LOEG TBD James Bond is different than Daniel Craig's portrayal of Bond in the film version of Casino Royale.
The new John Carter movie looks good - but what a pity Disney didn't at least look at the incredible vision of Burrough's Barsoom that Kevin O'Neill produced for Book 2 of the League of Extraordinary gentlemen.
One of the best comics books of recent years. I didn't really like The Black Dossier though. Maybe I should give it another go.
Is this worth buying?