New LXG Ongoing???

[BeastieRunner]

I either read along time ago or heard a rumor (not sure which) that there's a new LXG ongoing coming out sometime. I would like to know, if (A) this is true and (B) if it's true, when would it start? :confused:

I badly miss LXG and would like some new stuff someday soon.

[stealthwise]

Ongoing? No.

But there is the "Dark Dossier" collection coming out through DC, Moore's last project with the company. I believe that it's out in... well, it was supposedly coming out last year, but I have no idea what's going on now. Moore says it takes place between volumes 1 and 2, with the same creative team, and claims that it's better than penicillin and modern civilization (or something to that effect). (Note: Wikipedia, ever reliable, says that the hardcover will come out on May 30th, 2006)

Moore also is taking the property to publish with Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics. So expect volume three sometime in the next ten years. :)

[BeastieRunner]

Ongoing? No.

But there is the "Dark Dossier" collection coming out through DC, Moore's last project with the company. I believe that it's out in... well, it was supposedly coming out last year, but I have no idea what's going on now. Moore says it takes place between volumes 1 and 2, with the same creative team, and claims that it's better than penicillin and modern civilization (or something to that effect).

Sweet and thanks. Let's hope it comes out this . . . year . . .

Moore also is taking the property to publish with Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics.

Another piece of great news. Thanks again.

So expect volume three sometime in the next ten years. :)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[comicchick]

Isnt the new LoEG stuff supposed to have buffy, spike and angel in it? thats what someone told me, but they said that was a rumour. They said that because alan moore is a buffy fan (or liked the tv shows buffy and angel) he was going to make the 3rd LoEG more contemporary.

[filthysize]

Don't.... please don't call it LXG.

[Jack]

Don't.... please don't call it LXG.
Yeah... that's one of those few things that truly is just wrong.

[comicchick]

Yeah... that's one of those few things that truly is just wrong.

is calling it LoEG ok?

[stealthwise]

Isnt the new LoEG stuff supposed to have buffy, spike and angel in it? thats what someone told me, but they said that was a rumour. They said that because alan moore is a buffy fan (or liked the tv shows buffy and angel) he was going to make the 3rd LoEG more contemporary.

I have no idea how many things are wrong with that rumour, but I could probably start counting and get back to you by 2009. By then the third volume should be out. :)

[david r]

I've also read that a CD will be coming out with the new LXG book. Alan Moore and some others have recorded sounds to go along with the story!! This should prove VERY interesting!!!

[lordlad]

I've also read that a CD will be coming out with the new LXG book. Alan Moore and some others have recorded sounds to go along with the story!! This should prove VERY interesting!!!
they were saying dun calling LXG and u r calling it again.

[jessnevins]

I have no idea whether Mr. Moore is a Buffy fan, but I would be shocked if League v3 (not the Dossier, League v3) has Buffy, Spike, or Angel in it.

[Web of Fear]

Presumably, Buffy/Spike/Angel are all subject to copyright and there would probably be serious money to pay for their inclusion

[Sean Walsh]

is calling it LoEG ok?

Absolutely. We even appreciate the lower case "o" there! :p

It's the movie that made LXG a big no-no acronym for comic fans....

[sheets]

Presumably, Buffy/Spike/Angel are all subject to copyright and there would probably be serious money to pay for their inclusion

Well, technically, if Moore really wanted them to be in the work he could just refuse to name them, using hints to make the audience understand who they're supposed to be. That's what he did with some characters in the other series, such as Fu Manchu.

[stealthwise]

Well, technically, if Moore really wanted them to be in the work he could just refuse to name them, using hints to make the audience understand who they're supposed to be. That's what he did with some characters in the other series, such as Fu Manchu.

While that's true, I have no idea why he would put Buffy, Spike or Angel into the series at all, given that they don't fit the time period or themes of the LoEG book. You might as well say that he's going to throw King Kong or Godzilla in there, although those make more sense.

[dancj]

I beleive the Next LoEG book is going to be in a more recent time period (and of course Spike and Angel were probably alive in the original time period anyway), but it doesn't really seem likely that any of them will appear.

King Kong and Godzilla on the other hand wouldn't surprise me in the slightest

Dan

[Jack Destruct]

I would seriously stab myself in the eye with a pencil if Alan Moore wrote Angel and/or buffy and/or spike into an LoEG comic.

It's not that I don't like any of the above characters, but I'm sure AM can think of better things to write about.

The people who started that rumour obviously just can't be satisfied with the plethora of Buffy-related crap that's already out there. Plus, wouldn't they rather it be Joss writing it...?

[comicchick]

I would seriously stab myself in the eye with a pencil if Alan Moore wrote Angel and/or buffy and/or spike into an LoEG comic.

It's not that I don't like any of the above characters, but I'm sure AM can think of better things to write about.

The people who started that rumour obviously just can't be satisfied with the plethora of Buffy-related crap that's already out there. Plus, wouldn't they rather it be Joss writing it...?
not a clue who started the rumour, i heard it from another guy from myspace. it was probably started when a buffy fan said, wouldnt it be cool if...

[BeastieRunner]

You might as well say that he's going to throw King Kong or Godzilla in there, although those make more sense.

Doesn't Marvel own the rights to Godzilla?

[sheets]

Doesn't Marvel own the rights to Godzilla?

Nope. Toho Pictures owns Godzilla.

[filthysize]

Nope. Toho Pictures owns Godzilla.

I think he's talking about comic adaptation rights, which Marvel did own (Godzilla used to be part of the Marvel U, fighting the Avengers and stuff). But it was bought by Dark Horse in the 80s, and they've been making Godzilla comics that are more faithful to the Toho counterpart -- as opposed to Marvel basically creating their own monster in their own universe.

[BeastieRunner]

Yeah I meant the comic rights but now I think somebody else does own that now. I think you're right.

[Kelly Tindall]

King Kong and Godzilla on the other hand wouldn't surprise me in the slightest

Godzilla is not a character from literature, he's a movie character. The only characters that have been mentioned from film are the Blue Meanies (and the Yellow Submarine) which Captain Nemo encounters, and The Dude from "The Big Lebowski". Both are mentioned in "The New Traveller's Almanac" in the second volume.

"King Kong", on the other hand, was most definitely a book before it was a film. If you take a look through the traveller's almanac, you'll see a picture of Sinbad and his men sailing past Skull Island. Kong can appear.

K.

[Kelly Tindall]

Also, no 'LXG', please. Just called it 'League' or 'LoEG'.

Or 'LEG'. 'LEG' works.

K.

[Lex]

"LXG." "LoEG." "LEG." "That weird comic with old literary characters."

Seriously, who the hell cares? Is what specific abbreviation people use really that important?

But anyway, thanks for the info on the "Dark Dossier" book. I'm looking forward to that.

[Web of Fear]

"LXG." "LoEG." "LEG." "That weird comic with old literary characters."

Seriously, who the hell cares? Is what specific abbreviation people use really that important?



Well said sir!

[matt levin]

King Kong! Godzilla!

[Kelly Tindall]

"LXG." "LoEG." "LEG." "That weird comic with old literary characters."

Seriously, who the hell cares? Is what specific abbreviation people use really that important?

The problem that I have is that it's associated with the movie, which is complete garbage from start to finish. Moreover, I've actually watched it with the snide and condescending commentary by producer Don Murphy, who mocks the fans and passes the buck every chance he gets.

"LxG", to me, is an expression that rubs it's @$$ on what makes "League" great. That's why I don't use it.

-K.

[Lex]

Hey, that's totally fine if you don't want to use a certain term. But I think telling other fans what terms to use and not use is a little... weird.

[benday-dot]

So... it is just over 2 weeks away from Amazons release date of May 30 for the Black Dossier, or what we might call League vol. 3... and no one save Amazon itself seem to be in on this majestic news. I went to 3 local comic shops and they all say nothing League-like is bulging down the pipeline and about to burst onto their shelves. The DC/Wildstorm website, last time I checked, seemed similarly out of the loop on their self-exiled star's next masterpiece. Anybody know what gives?

[dancj]

Godzilla is not a character from literature, he's a movie character.

Has Moore ever stated that he'll only use literary characters? Obviously the ones in the stories so far aren't from films, but I suspect that's as much to do with the time period they were set in as anything else

[dancj]

Anybody know what gives?

I suspect Amazon are showing a date that was expected 2 years ago and just haven't updated it since. I'd be very surprised if it comes out when they are saying

Dan

[benday-dot]

I suspect Amazon are showing a date that was expected 2 years ago and just haven't updated it since. I'd be very surprised if it comes out when they are saying

Dan

I'll let you know May 30. I pre-ordered it... calling their bluff you see. It is surely as you say, a question of the giant's ignorance. Like you I will be shocked if it turns up. Thanks.

[Kelly Tindall]

Has Moore ever stated that he'll only use literary characters? Obviously the ones in the stories so far aren't from films, but I suspect that's as much to do with the time period they were set in as anything else

To my knowledge, he hasn't explicitly said, "No movie characters," but the impression I get is that he's trying to get people interested in literature from hundreds of years ago, as opposed to films from a few decades ago.

Have you read the Traveller's Almanac? There's a treasure trove of amazing books referenced in there, from Mervyn Peake's "Titus Groan" to "Goldfinger" by Fleming to the adventures of Dr. Syn, Sindbad, Frankenstein's monster, and John Carter of Mars.

-K.

[dancj]

To my knowledge, he hasn't explicitly said, "No movie characters," but the impression I get is that he's trying to get people interested in literature from hundreds of years ago, as opposed to films from a few decades ago.

I thought his motivation was more along the lines of "What if all of the fictional character from history existed in the same universe". As I understand it he's going to do different LoEG's from different time periods so if he does come forward to teh 50s (or whenever it was) an appearance from Godzilla wouldn't be too much of a stretch

Have you read the Traveller's Almanac?

Nah - I tend to not be that interested in the prose stories in comics (though there are odd exceptions)

[Web of Fear]

I'd recommend the New Travellers Almanac. I found that the way it is laid out does made it a bit slow to get through, it is worthwhile and give hints of the Legaue's future (and past) adventures.

[Kelly Tindall]

Moore intentionally put a lot of stuff about the future of Mina and Allan in the Almanac. Those who don't read it are missing out.

I can't figure out why somebody would go to the effort of buying a comic and then ignoring the supplementary material. It's like avoiding the sketch pages in a trade because they weren't in the final story!

-K.

[DJ Sloofus]

Has Moore ever stated that he'll only use literary characters? Obviously the ones in the stories so far aren't from films, but I suspect that's as much to do with the time period they were set in as anything else


Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he once mention that his "1950's" league would include several television comics? For some reason, I also seem to remember him mentioning, of all things, "Leave it to Beaver," though that doesn't seem too likely.

[dancj]

I can't figure out why somebody would go to the effort of buying a comic and then ignoring the supplementary material. It's like avoiding the sketch pages in a trade because they weren't in the final story!

I think I looked at it briefly and didn't like the style it was written in. I'd enjoyed a good book and I couldn't see a reason to sour my experience by slogging through some text I didn't want to read. It's not an absolute rule. I loved the Under the Hood sections in Watchmen - but then in several reads of the book I've never made it to the end of the ornithology article

As for the sketch pages, I tend to give them a flick through, but I rarely find anything interesting in them.

Dan

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

I think I looked at it briefly and didn't like the style it was written in. I'd enjoyed a good book and I couldn't see a reason to sour my experience by slogging through some text I didn't want to read. It's not an absolute rule. I loved the Under the Hood sections in Watchmen - but then in several reads of the book I've never made it to the end of the ornithology article

As for the sketch pages, I tend to give them a flick through, but I rarely find anything interesting in them.

Dan

I've never understood people not reading the ornithology section.
From memory, you get past the birds, and learn some stuff about whatisname.
Either that, or I just found it an insightful look into his mind.
(then again, I'm still shocked that one poster here told me they thought Watchmen was overated, and had skipped past all the text sections, as well as the bits with the pirate story!).

That said, I've never been able to get through any of the text sections at the end of LoEG.
Just felt like Moore having a literary wank - he wrote it in a really hard style to read. More power to him for doing what he wants, but really, I've got better things to do with my day.
(like post on message boards about his work!)

[i_mmmchocolate]

Well, I added it to my Amazon wishlist. I wonder if this is a bad sign that there hasn't been much talk or promotion about this third volume. I can't imagine it'll be a stinker.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Well, I added it to my Amazon wishlist. I wonder if this is a bad sign that there hasn't been much talk or promotion about this third volume. I can't imagine it'll be a stinker.

There was plenty when it was first announced - but that was quite awhile ago.
I was under the impression it was coming from Top Shelf, but all their energy seems to be focused on Lost Girls at the moment.

Those wondering what the CD with the book may sound like, here's the only recording of Alan Moore singing that I know of http://pip.rubberfeet.org/stuff/ducks.html
there is a version out there with a slightly better cartoon along with it, but that's a bit beside the point.

[i_mmmchocolate]

here's the only recording of Alan Moore singing that I know of http://pip.rubberfeet.org/stuff/ducks.html .

Wow, that was cracktactular.*




*Stolen from Spike-X

[jessnevins]

I don't think I'm betraying any secrets when I say that it won't be out this month.

I'm sure, though, that when it's ready there'll be a sufficiency of hype.

[DJ Sloofus]

(then again, I'm still shocked that one poster here told me they thought Watchmen was overated, and had skipped past all the text sections, as well as the bits with the pirate story!).



I'm as huge of an Alan Moore fan as anyone, but I have to admit that I also think Watchmen is a bit over-rated. I can respect it for it's historical significance (and I remember reading it as it came out), but as far as Moore's major works go, I have to put it at the bottom.

And for the record, I loved the "Pirate stuff." I recently re-read the series when I bought the Absolute edition, and enjoyed it more than I ever have before, but I still don't think it's quite what it's cracked up to be. Give me V for Vendetta over Watchmen any day.

[BeastieRunner]

I'm the opposite. I read the stuff in Gentlemen but not Watchmen. The Watchmen stuff was not very catchy to me while the League items were.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

I'm the opposite. I read the stuff in Gentlemen but not Watchmen. The Watchmen stuff was not very catchy to me while the League items were.

For me the Watchmen text pieces are essential to the series.

The League one's never seemed that way.

That said, anyone who's read it care to tell us what happens to Quatermain and the gang after vol.2 ends, as I hear it's spelt out in the text pieces, and the next volumes don't focus on him.

[Noah Johnson]

That said, anyone who's read it care to tell us what happens to Quatermain and the gang after vol.2 ends, as I hear it's spelt out in the text pieces, and the next volumes don't focus on him.
Mina and Allan travel the world, winding up in Africa at the mysterious pool where certain individuals gain immortality. Bathing there, they become immortal, and Allan is restored to youth. Mina falsifies her diary to indicate that he died, but she ran into his son, Allan Jr., and they hooked up. They then continue travelling and have a bunch of threesomes with Orlando.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Mina and Allan travel the world, winding up in Africa at the mysterious pool where certain individuals gain immortality. Bathing there, they become immortal, and Allan is restored to youth. Mina falsifies her diary to indicate that he died, but she ran into his son, Allan Jr., and they hooked up. They then continue travelling and have a bunch of threesomes with Orlando.

So was Allan Jr Allan, pretending to be his son?

And they all swing now?

[dancj]

I've never understood people not reading the ornithology section.
From memory, you get past the birds, and learn some stuff about whatisname.

Practically every time I reread Watchmen I vow to read all of the text pages, but that ornithology artical kills me every time, as does that artical about Joe Orlando. OTO, Under the Hood and the psychiatrist's report on Rorsharch are fantastic

(then again, I'm still shocked that one poster here told me they thought Watchmen was overated, and had skipped past all the text sections, as well as the bits with the pirate story!).

I don't think Watchmen is over-rated in the slightest, but I could do without the pirate story.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

I don't think Watchmen is over-rated in the slightest, but I could do without the pirate story.

It doesn't make you wish we had pirate comics?

[i_mmmchocolate]

It doesn't make you wish we had pirate comics?

I don't think there are enough pirate stories.

Recommend me a pirate-themed comic, someone, anyone.


ARRRR!

[Kelly Tindall]

For me the Watchmen text pieces are essential to the series.

The League one's never seemed that way.

That said, anyone who's read it care to tell us what happens to Quatermain and the gang after vol.2 ends, as I hear it's spelt out in the text pieces, and the next volumes don't focus on him.

Does this strike anybody else as, well, a little hypocritical?

-K.

[Jack Destruct]

Hypocritical might be a little bit of a harsh word, but it's definately ironic, or something.

I don't think Watchmen is over-rated in the slightest, but I could do without the pirate story.

I don't know how you could say that you could do without the pirate story. It paralleled the main story beautifully and helped pace the entire comic. Without it, the book as a whole would be nowhere near as powerful.

[Kelly Tindall]

I actually had a discussion with a very intelligent guy who had read "Watchmen" and found it to be dry and dull... once I had explained to him why "Watchmen" was revolutionary, and how it changed comics, and how flagrantly comics are strip-mining "Watchmen" today, he finally got it.

The problem with being revolutionary is that you become copied so much that you look like a cliche, at the end.

-K.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Does this strike anybody else as, well, a little hypocritical?

-K.

Why?

I don't see it as essential to the story presented in Vol.2 of LoEG, so I didn't read it - doesn't mean I'm not curious, especially as the next storyline, from what I can tell, doesn't look like it will explain how Allan and Mina got back together.

I looked at the text when I got the trades, tried to read them and found it quite boring - small print, triple column and rather dry text, while cute and all, didn't really help.
Flicked through it last night, and felt the same way - Why Moore didn't use those stories for a future LoEG series is beyond me - each chapter another issue.

Oh, and the reason I see Watchmen's text pieces as essential and not LoEG's is that in the trades, the Watchmen one's are at the end of, or part of, each chapter, while the LoEG's is pushed up the back, along with all the funny ads and games pages.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

I actually had a discussion with a very intelligent guy who had read "Watchmen" and found it to be dry and dull... once I had explained to him why "Watchmen" was revolutionary, and how it changed comics, and how flagrantly comics are strip-mining "Watchmen" today, he finally got it.

The problem with being revolutionary is that you become copied so much that you look like a cliche, at the end.

-K.

Watchmen as a whole isn't really copied though - only it's characters.

I don't see it's sense of pacing or excellent use of nine panel grid anywhere else.

Why do people just keep making crappy character copies, and not actually aim for the great aspects of watchmen?

[dancj]

I don't know how you could say that you could do without the pirate story. It paralleled the main story beautifully and helped pace the entire comic. Without it, the book as a whole would be nowhere near as powerful.

It parallelled the main story slightly, but for me it made the chapters concerned drag a bit, damaging the pacing of the story.

Dan

[dancj]

Watchmen as a whole isn't really copied though - only it's characters.

One thing that was copied heavily (and badly) is the way characters would say things in one scene that would be reflected in a different way in the next.

During the triangle period of the Superman books there'd be a situation where someone would say something like "You're treading on thin ice" as it cut to a scene where someone was ice skating. Moore did this sort of thing smartly in Watchmen and it was copied clumsily for years afterwards

Dan

[Kelly Tindall]

1) What is hypocritical is not ignoring the text... I think that's lazy, but it's your prerogative how much of your media you consume.

What is hypocritical is saying, "I didn't think this was important," and then asking us to explain it to you. Just in case.

2) "Watchmen" has been copied so much, in so many ways, that people aren't even conscious of it anymore. If you don't think "Watchmen" was influential, then you didn't read a lot of comics before it was published.

It's not just the characters. It's the tone, the narrative devices, the art style, the characterization, the drama, and the ambiguity.

-K.

[Kelly Tindall]

Moore did this sort of thing smartly in Watchmen and it was copied clumsily for years afterwards


And he derided it roundly in his excellent "On Writing" essay.

-K.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

1) What is hypocritical is not ignoring the text... I think that's lazy, but it's your prerogative how much of your media you consume.

What is hypocritical is saying, "I didn't think this was important," and then asking us to explain it to you. Just in case.

I read the story at the end of volume one and found it rather boring and didn't really effect the story for me at all - it was a second story.

Personally, I couldn't have cared less what happened, didn't effect my life not knowing, doesn't effect it knowing.

I was curious. I didn't ask for an explanation, I just asked 'so what happened'?

I don't see that as hypocritical at all.


2) "Watchmen" has been copied so much, in so many ways, that people aren't even conscious of it anymore. If you don't think "Watchmen" was influential, then you didn't read a lot of comics before it was published.

It's not just the characters. It's the tone, the narrative devices, the art style, the characterization, the drama, and the ambiguity.

-K.

Too right, I didn't read comics at all.

But going through back issues, I have found many of those things predating Watchmen.
Obviously these aren't the mainstream books, and none were as well done, but from my reading, admittedly selective, I have seen a lot of the stuff before Watchmen.
Maybe they weren't as infulential, but they were there.

[Web of Fear]

I'll let you know May 30. I pre-ordered it... calling their bluff you see. It is surely as you say, a question of the giant's ignorance. Like you I will be shocked if it turns up. Thanks.

30 May has come and gone. Did you get this?;)

I suspect the answer is "no"

[Kelly Tindall]

Amazon has it for October, I believe.

-K.

[benday-dot]

30 May has come and gone. Did you get this?;)

I suspect the answer is "no"

Alas... the world is without miracles.

Bye bye to the month of May, and to the Black Dossier with it.

Ok... I e-mailed Amazon.ca (the Canadian version, since it is from Canada I hail), and they just served me with, along with an apology, the results of their "investigation"... Wanna read it...

Thank you for writing to us at Amazon.ca.

I apologize for the unexpected delay of your order. I researched
the availability of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black
Dossier" and learned that its release is delayed.

I apologize that we can not be very specific regarding the updated
release date at this time. As soon as a release date has been
determined, we will add that information to our web site.

Please know that we have to rely upon our suppliers for the release
date information. You can view the release date information by
visiting the following link:

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/140120306X/

So nothing grounbreaking there to report by way of League 3. Although I do note that a cover image now appears where previously could be found only the <no image> tag. I suspect I am not as hardcore as some other fans on this forum, but does anyone recognize this artwork as new?

[i_mmmchocolate]

I suspect I am not as hardcore as some other fans on this forum, but does anyone recognize this artwork as new?

I'm not sure; just by briefly looking at it, it somehow doesn't look 'new'. Except Allan does look slightly younger for some reason.

Note the figures in the mirror.

[Kelly Tindall]

The image they have as a 'cover' was released as a teaser for the new series... God, it must have been released, what, three years ago?

Us League fans, we know patience on a first-name basis.

-K.

[Thorlief]

time to start hoping again?
I for one cant freaking wait. But I got used to it

[Joey Deadcat]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 3: Century
by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill

Co-Published By Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout

Beginning In 2008…

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years and entitled Century. Divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own current twenty-first century.

Chapter one is set against a backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. With Halley's Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George V, and far away on his South Atlantic Island, the science-pirate Captain Nemo is dying. In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife.

Chapter two takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1968, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.

In chapter three, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2008. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q'umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London mental institution there's a patient who insists that she has all the answers.

Drawing from the fiction, theatre, film and television culture of the twentieth century as artfully as the preceding volumes drew upon the literature of the nineteenth, this first installment of the League's adventures to be co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout takes our familiar cast of characters … plus several previously unfamiliar … and propels them into a new age, a new world every bit as strange and savage as the colourful Victorian era they were born to. More than this, with its third volume the League's exploits move into a different realm of format, artistry and story-telling as this remarkable series sets out to explore the full limits of the vast fictional cosmos that it has marked as its territory. A unified field theory of fiction as much as a comic-book story, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume III): Century is sure to be like nothing you have ever read, and will be co-published in three lavish, full-color individual volumes by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout, commencing in 2008.

Published as three deluxe, 72-page, full-color, perfect-bound graphic novellas, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
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http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=13&title=583

-The Moonchild is from Alestir Crowley's "Moonchild" novel.
-Carnaki is a fictional supernatural detective created by English fantasy writer, William Hope Hodgson.
-Anthony J. Raffles: presumably this is A.J. Raffles, a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, though that character was named Arthur. This maybe a mere slip up much like the whole Black\Dark Affair.
-Serial Killer, feels like ol' saucy Jack to me, probably not.
-Pirate Jenny and Mack the Knife are both from msic rather than literiture, creations of Kurt Weil I think.
-I'll be damned if Jack Carter doesn't pop up in the sixties.
-Q'umar is the fictional Middle-Eastern country from the contemporary TV series The West Wing.
-Sikh Terrorist, most likely a descendant of Captain Nemo.

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[rwe1138]

<does the Dance of Joy>

[ultramandingo]

so i figue a new The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen circa 07 would go something like ....
80/90 year old viagra popin James Bond,
disgraced fbi agent Clarice Starling ,
the adult Danny Torrance and his pal Tony , ( spoiler.....possessed by the Overlook Hotel)
Charlie Bucket ( and his Great Glass Elevator )
and the half giant Hagrid.
(all based on bestsellers ...that i saw the movies of )

their mission , rescue a fabled gold ring from Vatican vaults by the Illuminati and their new leader and s.m.e.r.s.h. agent .....Hannibal Lecter,
Starlings old boyfreind
or they end up on a island crawling with dinosaur clones , whatever
just need to get it past the lawyers

[Kelly Tindall]

Actually, James Bond (or an acceptable out-of-copyright version) appears in The Black Dossier as a member of the ass-backwards 1950's League. If you've read the Almanac, Goldfinger and Oddjob are mentioned as spearheading an ill-fated quest for El Dorado!

The Sikh nuclear submariner is likely a Nemo descendant (he had a daughter, who presumably became Jenny Diver from Threepenny Opera, after all) and the insane-asylum woman is probably Mina. Q'umar, the wartorn country, is from The West Wing.

Honestly, I'm a little weirded-out by Moore's sudden inclusion of t.v. and movies, as there were only two mentions in the previous volumes (The Big Lebowski and The Yellow Submarine).

If anyone can make it work, it's big Al.

[Kelly Tindall]

By the way, I know you cribbed that from Wizard Magazine, but you get a pass for recommending Nextwave.

[ultramandingo]

By the way, I know you cribbed that from Wizard Magazine, but you get a pass for recommending Nextwave.

you read wizard !?! (ewwwwww) and they had Danny Torrance and Charlie Bucket ??? mabye i should read wizard ( i was thinking of adding a aged john shaft instead of bond if that counts for any thing )

[ultramandingo]

Honestly, I'm a little weirded-out by Moore's sudden inclusion of t.v. and movies, as there were only two mentions in the previous volumes (The Big Lebowski and The Yellow Submarine).

If anyone can make it work, it's big Al.

twin peaks too

[Web of Fear]

Ooooooo. Just read this. Sounds good. Now just hurry up and get The Black Dossier out...... :D

[ultramandingo]

check it out, i just "cribbed" some more LXGers off wizards web site.....

The Monkey Wrench Gang 's George Hayduke.
Carl Hiaasen's Skink ,
an adult "Charlie" McGee (Firestarter) ,
adult Regan MacNeil (Exorcist) ,
Nick Halloway (Memoirs of an Invisible Man),
Dr Gonzo (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Jessica Rabbit ,
Sukie Rougemont ( Witches of Eastwick, )
I. M. Fletcher (Fletch) ,
Jason Bourne ,
Jack Ryan
or "Tyler Durden" (Fight Club) who could turn traitor and go.....

villian wise

Hannibal Lecter's new protege Patrick Bateman (American Psycho, ) some Anne Rice vampires ,
Captain Howdy/Pazuzu
....mabey some leftover Stepford Wives?

[Michael P]

Hannibal Lecter's new protege Patrick Bateman (American Psycho, )

That's a cool idea.

[Thorlief]

woooooooooooooooooo FINALLY

welcome back, gentlemen (and women)

Nemo's dying...awww...he was my fav char out of the League :(

[the film freak]

Ooooooo. Just read this. Sounds good. Now just hurry up and get The Black Dossier out...... :D

Moore said in an audio interview that O'Neill has 16 pages left to draw. And this was in November. So we'll probably see it later this year. He also said he was already giving him pages for the third book.

The format for Volume 3 sounds like a great idea. They will probably come out very slowly though but at least we'll get somewhat of a complete story. Moore also said he was writing Part 2 right now.

[stealthwise]

That's a cool idea.

Bateman as a real killer? I don't know, wouldn't that really... I don't know, I'm still trying to work out the reveal in American Psycho and see if that even works.

[Kelly Tindall]

Moore said in an audio interview that O'Neill has 16 pages left to draw. And this was in November. So we'll probably see it later this year. He also said he was already giving him pages for the third book.

Moore and O'Neill are finished The Black Dossier. It's in DC's hands right now. Jess Nevins just reported it recently on his blog.

Latest would be October, although I'm hoping for earlier.

[ultramandingo]

Bateman as a real killer? I don't know, wouldn't that really... I don't know, I'm still trying to work out the reveal in American Psycho and see if that even works.

like i said i only saw the movie , but i wana see cristian bale going after drew barrymore ("Charlie" McGee) only to get set on fire ..or knifed by a drugged up benico del torro/dr gonzo in LXG 2

[rwe1138]

Moore and O'Neill are finished The Black Dossier. It's in DC's hands right now. Jess Nevins just reported it recently on his blog.

Latest would be October, although I'm hoping for earlier.

So does anyone know why the smurf it's taking so long to come out?

[Thorlief]

fuss between old and new publishers?

[Ryan Day]

If Moore & O'neill just finished it, there's still plenty of work to do before it can be released; regular production, and the fact it probably takes longer to get a hardcover printed. It also has to be resolicited, since the earlier solicit was cancelled.

I'd guess we'll see it solicited in a month or two, for release some time over the summer.

[FortySix&2]

fuss between old and new publishers?

As of Jan 30th Nevins said that DC still had to do production on the very interesting 3-D section to the Dossier. Ray Zone is apparently the company working on it.

[FortySix&2]

Actually, James Bond (or an acceptable out-of-copyright version) appears in The Black Dossier as a member of the ass-backwards 1950's League. If you've read the Almanac, Goldfinger and Oddjob are mentioned as spearheading an ill-fated quest for El Dorado!

The Sikh nuclear submariner is likely a Nemo descendant (he had a daughter, who presumably became Jenny Diver from Threepenny Opera, after all) and the insane-asylum woman is probably Mina. Q'umar, the wartorn country, is from The West Wing.

Honestly, I'm a little weirded-out by Moore's sudden inclusion of t.v. and movies, as there were only two mentions in the previous volumes (The Big Lebowski and The Yellow Submarine).

If anyone can make it work, it's big Al.

Actually Oddjob was never mentioned the the Almanac, there was a drawing that some said could be oddjob, although he was a bit shorter.

And remember there is no league of any kind in that last chapter.

[Kelly Tindall]

Picky, picky. It's obviously Oddjob.

[Punch]

What's the reference to Yellow Submarine?

Also I was listening to an interview with Moore and he said he doesn't see a reason why they can't continue making LEG books since they have the entire history of fiction to play with.

High Five!

[FortySix&2]

Picky, picky. It's obviously Oddjob.

He's not the right height so pfft!

What i wanna know is who that fifth person on the cover of Century is. He can't be Orlando cause he's got no mole on his left cheek, I was thinking harker jr. or even Dracula, maybe even Dorian Grey. All those could be wrong though and it could be orland but I like to speculate.

[Kelly Tindall]

Okay, I've uploaded the three covers we have.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/KellyGreen/league_3_image_lg.jpg

I think the Century cover is Mina, Allan, Jack the Ripper (in shadow), and Raffles (in tux). I don't recognize the chap with the star cane.

The Indian girl behind them is probably Jenny Diver from Threepenny Opera, who Moore implies in The Almanac is Nemo's grown daughter.

In the bubbles, from left to right, I recognize The Nautilus, the aged Nemo (he dies in 1912), Ishmael, Broad Arrow Jack, and either Mycroft Holmes or an older Campion Bond. The warrior is possibly Umslopagaas, Quatermain's deceased man-servant.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/KellyGreen/140120306X.jpg

Okay, I barely recognize anyone here. Mina is obvious; the pilot looks like Amelia Earhart; Orlando is on the right. The girl in purple could be Pirate Jenny. The reclining figure in back could be Boadicea.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/KellyGreen/11437406.jpg

The blonde looks like the one reading The Dossier on the second cover, but her neck is covered which tells me it's Mina and Allan in disguise. I do not recognize the animal-headed figures.

Also, the yellow submarine is mentioned, in The Almanac, by one of Nemo's crewmembers (Broad Arrow Jack) as being a mysterious yellow vessel that leads to a strange universe. The reference was totally lost on me until I read Jess' notes.

Is Jess around these days? I'd love some info on these.

[Web of Fear]

Check out this link for some alternative theories on who the characters on the Century cover are :)

http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/League/OtherLeagues/1900s/1900sLeague.html

[Kelly Tindall]

I didn't suspect that Carnacki was the darker gentleman, but my research indicates that Carnacki used pentacles (such as the one on the man's cane) in his supernatural investigations, so I'm going with that theory.

I still don't think the tuxedoed gentleman is Orlando for some reason.

[FortySix&2]

Okay, I've uploaded the three covers we have.


I think the Century cover is Mina, Allan, Jack the Ripper (in shadow), and Raffles (in tux). I don't recognize the chap with the star cane.

The Indian girl behind them is probably Jenny Diver from Threepenny Opera, who Moore implies in The Almanac is Nemo's grown daughter.

In the bubbles, from left to right, I recognize The Nautilus, the aged Nemo (he dies in 1912), Ishmael, Broad Arrow Jack, and either Mycroft Holmes or an older Campion Bond. The warrior is possibly Umslopagaas, Quatermain's deceased man-servant.


Okay, I barely recognize anyone here. Mina is obvious; the pilot looks like Amelia Earhart; Orlando is on the right. The girl in purple could be Pirate Jenny. The reclining figure in back could be Boadicea.

Is Jess around these days? I'd love some info on these.


Jack The Ripper?! hah. No, no, no That's A.J. Raffles my good man, he's got the whole Gentleman Theif outfit and all.
The fellow with the pentacle is Carnacki, he's got a fondness for pentacles. The guy in the tux has a huge sword I don't remember A.J. being much a swordsman but I duno maybe I'm wrong. So how or why did you come up with those conclusions? I'll admit I may be wrong myself I don't know for sure but it's fun to guess, and I love the artwork too. Oh, and according to the Almanac Nemo died 1909. Though that could've just been misinformation.

About the pilot, I doubt that's Amelia it doesnt look female enough but I could be wrong, also there is an Identifying tattoo on his/her elbow of a heart and a letter inside. I was thinking it was some sort of composite of Tom Swift. The rather majestic looking emerald woman may be Gloriana.


Jess will begin serious work on the new leage a Month before The Black Dossier will be published.

[Kelly Tindall]

Yes, upon looking at it again I think you're probably right. I'm having a terrible time with these awful low-res jpegs.

You are also correct (I assume) about Nemo's death-date... His date of death is actually James Mason's birth date, if I am not incorrect. I haven't read the Almanac in over a year so I'm quite rusty.

And I realize that Jess is writing a companion book (I'm a contributor to his first two) but these images have been out for months and months and the suspense is starting to wear on me.

[blackphoenix]

I know someone has probably already answered this, but when is the Black Dossier supposed to come out?

[Web of Fear]

October, according to the Wildstorm website.

[FortySix&2]

Yes, upon looking at it again I think you're probably right. I'm having a terrible time with these awful low-res jpegs.

You are also correct (I assume) about Nemo's death-date... His date of death is actually James Mason's birth date, if I am not incorrect. I haven't read the Almanac in over a year so I'm quite rusty.

And I realize that Jess is writing a companion book (I'm a contributor to his first two) but these images have been out for months and months and the suspense is starting to wear on me.

Yea, I'm sorry to hear about the supsense and possibly excitement wayning. Fortunately a few years ago I had assumed, through faulty intel, that another league volume would never happen. So, my days passed in ignorance of the goodness that was to be delayed and delayed... and delayed (i blame DC). So, technically i've only been waiting for new league for about a year.

The way I keep busy is by attempting to write my own league stories sneaked away in the 16th century. As well as working on some more contemporary stuff. It's really challenging to try to pull of something interesting. I'm no pro but I like to think I could pull off something at least I would love aheh. For instance I found this wonderful character I'm dying to use by the name of Hector who was around in the late 19th century. Back in the 1700's there's a very intriguing character whom I could call John B. Frogg without any worries of copyright lawsuits, who has a very keen sense of smell. Oh, and since Charlie Bucket was already mentioned he'd be perfect as the descendant of one Detective Bucket(t?) from one of Dickens stories! ah i've gone off on a tangent again i think.

[BeastieRunner]

This thing still on track of October?

[Thorlief]

Wildstorm says Oct. 4, Amazon says Oct. 24. I'm sure not complaining if it comes out before Amazon's release date

[BeastieRunner]

Wildstorm says Oct. 4, Amazon says Oct. 24. I'm sure not complaining if it comes out before Amazon's release date

Yeah me either. That's good to see it's still on track though. *crosses fingers*

[jessnevins]

Oct. 4, eh? I'd heard sooner than that.

[rwe1138]

*steeples fingers*

Excellent.

[BeastieRunner]

Oct. 4, eh? I'd heard sooner than that.

When did you hear?

[jessnevins]

Sometime in September.