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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

posted by Zed on August 1 2002 21:52

The first volume of Alan Moore's wonderfully fun series superimposed diverse fictions on one world, so we had Dr. Jekyll, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Allan Quatermain, and Nima (from Dracula) trying to recover Professor Cavor's stolen cavorite from Fu Manchu.

With the second volume, he superimproses diverse fictions on another world: Mars, which is simultaneously the Mars of Burroughs, Wells, C.S. Lewis and more. Get the comic, read Jess Nevins' exhaustive annotations and wonder which is more remarkable: that Moore did all this, or that someone decoded all that.

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