WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (1969)

7 Comments on “WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (1969)”

1. 1 Chris said at 11:14 am on July 28th, 2011:

   That bad?

2. 2 Tony Goins said at 1:46 pm on July 28th, 2011:

   I couldn’t but skim the Black Dossier. It felt like a book full of special features and annotations. I think the phrase is, “easy to admire, hard to like.”

3. 3 Old Bull Lee said at 2:58 pm on July 28th, 2011:

   Black Dossier was horrible. The worst section (a Kerouac/Beats pastiche) Jesse Nevins wouldn’t even bother annotating.

   Century vol. 1 was okay, but the over-the-top cleverness gets a little boring. I didn’t care for Moore smugly shitting all over James Bond either.

4. 4 A TO THA L M DOUBLE OH said at 4:11 pm on July 28th, 2011:

   Dash my brains out against the wall if any thought be less than GENIUS.

5. 5 Mark Clapham said at 4:36 pm on July 29th, 2011:

   I think Chris Sims nailed it on Comics Alliance – LoEG has drowned in its own references.

   What began as a neat conceit teaming up proto-superheroic characters has slid into a mess of ‘storytelling is magic, man’, wibble. It’s still a great looking, entertaining book – but it feels like it’s missing its own point.

6. 6 adam said at 9:29 pm on July 31st, 2011:

   Yeah I thought black dossier was indulgent and over-written, and Century vol 1 – well, I don’t feel like there’s really a light-operatic gap in comics that needs to be plugged, but that might just be me. So I wasn’t even going to go anywhere near this one.

   Alan Moore really needs some editorial restraint. Too much time being told he’s a genius, I think.

7. 7 Tony said at 10:21 am on August 1st, 2011:

   LOEG used to be the thing Alan Moore did on his days off from being a genius.