Thumbs up for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I
A witty romp filled with characters cleverly brought together from the great adventure works of the 19th century – Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain, Dr. Jekyll, Mina Harker and so on. Some of the best steampunk I’ve read so far. Sadly my enjoyment of the book was soured somewhat by the stultifying prose story at the end, which reads like Alan Moore trying to sound Victorian by using too many adjectives. Sorry, that’s not how it works. That was a bad note to end on; but the comics themselves are great stuff.
“The next edition of our new Boys’ Picture Monthly will continue this arresting yarn, in which the Empire’s finest are brought into conflict with a sly Chinee, accompanied by a variety of coloured illustrations from our artist that are sure to appeal to the manly, outwardgoing youngster of today.”
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