Top 10: Book 2 - Alan Moore

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore

stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O Neill. It was first published as a comic series in 1999. Set in 1898, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen can best be described as a Victorian era steampunk version of The Justice League with the big twist being that in this universe fictional characters from the world of literature are real. So when the British Empire is threatened by mysterious forces the government recruits various extraordinary and strange people to work together as a team of champions for them. These ...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore

Cavorite before the devil doctor can put his fiendish plans into operation, although there are some other nasty surprises along the way. It was written by Alan Moore, the most consistently interesting comic writer. He's best known for writing rather grim epic stories like the end-of-the-world superhero conspiracy story Watchmen and the mystical time-travelling Jack-the-Ripper tale From Hell. Great comics, but not a lot of humour on display. LOEG, on the other hand, is very funny from beginning to end (Moore can do comedy as well as anyone; he wrote the funniest comic I've ever seen, DR & Quinch for 2000 AD). The humour derives mostly from the various styles of ...

Alan Moore in general

people who police them. Funny, exciting and stuffed with in-jokes, it's often described as a super-powered version of Hill Street Blues. The only worry here is that Moore, who's working for DC apparently reluctantly, may have another disagreement with them that will cause his withdrawal. I really hope not. He's also written a pretty good prose novel, The Voice of the Fire, about Northampton's surprisingly varied history, and recorded a few CDs of his magical performance pieces (I've got one - The Highbury Working - good if you like that kind of thing, which I do, but probably a bit too strange to achieve mass appeal). There you go. Alan ...