League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen III CENTURY 1910 #1

Review by: TheNextChampion

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For all intent and purposes, the third installment of Moore’s League series (Black Dossier) was a major disappointment. Now I do not mind if a comic has prose elements in it. In fact I would probably incourage it more then most readers would. But Alan Moore went a bit too far with the prose in the previous book; and it suffered from severe lack of interest from me. Would this first part in the forth volume be the same disappointment?

The moment I opened this book, I was hooked in. Damn you Alan Moore and your ways of making early 20th century lingo interesting! I have to say that I didnt understand a good majority of what was happening. But that’s always been the case with these League books. It takes some time to read them and multiple readings are for the better. There is a lot of referencing to major literary and historical characters for the time. Moore might be scraping a bit to get more figures involved. As long as he writes an engrossing plot though it does not matter what characters he uses. There is actually two plots going side by side with another. One follows Mina Murray, young Alan Quatermain, and others to stop an occult from creating the ‘Moonchild’ (or antichrist); while the other follows the daughter of Captain Nemo trying to live a normal life. Both stories all converge in an action packed finale and a strange one at that.

What else can be said about Kevin O’Neill in this series? No one else could draw or color this series. The details in this book are astounding. Backgrounds are filled with interesting objects; the streets are filled to the brim with people, and most likely everything is referencing something during this timeframe. O’Neill needs to keep this comic interesting, cause like the previous installments, it’s mostly talking heads. He keeps our interest going with his detail and it doesnt hurt to have full frontal nudity in same panels. If….if your into that type of thing in your comics. I dont know, I dont judge.

Here’s how I knew this comic was back to top form. First time ever for me, and most likely in the history of comics. This thing ends (and it’s not so much a spoiler) with a musical number. How brave or insane is Alan Moore (answer to latter: most definite) to try such a thing? Well a lot of singing goes on in this comic and it really sets the tone of the book. This is the start of a bigger storyline that will no doubt get weirder and heavier in future books. As long as Alan Moore tries his best with each book; and maybe even do a saucy salsa number at the end of another book; then this is going to be a fun volume. To answer the question I asked in the beginning of this review; this new story brings back all the good that this series was known for and then some.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent

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