I knew it would never be a sequel to the classic comic series by Alan Moore "The Watchmen" (and wish Frank Miller had let well enough alone with "The Dark Knight Returns"), but certainly "The League of Men Extraordinary "is a kindred spirit in all major aspects. If the guards were supposed to be superheroes that we recognized, even though he had never seen before, then the League offers up recognizable fictional characters we have ever seen together before. Going back a century for inspiration, Moore creates a Pax Britannia around 1898 where superheroes "are fictional characters that had been created by this particular point in time, namely: Mina Murray (Harker) of" Dracula Bram Stoker, "Captain Nemo Jules Verne's 20,000" Leagues Under the Sea, "Alan Quatermain from" H. Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines "and the title character of" Robert Louis Stevenson Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. "and" HG Wells The Invisible Man. "There is also reason to believe that the" M ", the dark figure on ordering the League could in fact be Mycroft Holmes (and if you do not know what is the literary series from then just totally forget to enjoy this series).
If this, in itself, is not enough of a hook to get your interest in testing this collection first comic adventure of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen let me remind you that Alan Moore is doing the writing. The work of art by Kevin O'Neill is certainly evocative of the turn of last century, or rather, not seen as a modern superhero comics. Moore and O'Neill also maintain a wonderful concept in the whole series of presentation of the comics as published at the time of history, full of wonderful "ads" that are often as interesting as the story (one of which actually require the implementation of an initial impression of the topics to be destroyed, a story you will have to find other sites related, patient reader.)
Moore's intention was to address a group of superheroes before all the clichés were established (again, similar to how "The Watchmen" was in a different reality unencumbered by the DC and Marvel universes). Seeing an obvious parallel between the Hulk and Jekyll / Hyde, Moore let his imagination roam in his alternate version, most technically advanced of Victorian London. The more you know about the literary history of this period (for example, Emile Zola's Nana is killed in the Rue Morgue "by Hyde), the more you enjoy this work. But this first adventure of the League still works if the fiction in the late 19th century is not his forte. British intelligence has discovered that cavorite, a material that allows flying machines, has been stolen by a mysterious Chinese figure (Oh, come on, take a wild guess that has to be). Campion Bond of MI5 has been ordered to assemble a team of adventurers to retrieve the cavorite, which is crucial for the race to the moon.
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is much more fun than we usually associate with Moore's work. Indeed, the language has never been greater in the cheeks with this series. The first three issues of Volume 2 have seen the light of day so far this year and if you read through this original effort can quickly get up to date with the current adventure. You just have to remember is 1898 and Britannia waives the rules ...
