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First of all let’s get it out of the way; the second Volume of Alan Moore’s League of extraordinary gentlemen is not a sequel which supplants the first. It is adequate in its own right, but lacks a certain flair from the first. The engaging worldbuilding and characters demonstrated in the first volume, appear to be almost diluted in this installation. Part of the reason might be how, while the predecessor was a globetrotting Indiana Jones style fantasy steampunk adventure, this iteration feels
League Vol. 2. Moore casts his nets wider in this second volume by incorporating the tales of H.G. Wells, primarily The War of the Worlds, but with an amusing diversion to The Island of Doctor Moreau. The result is a very different sort of adventure tale from the first, but one that's both more evocative and engaging. (And that's not even counting the wonderful first issue, which mashes together a few Martian planetary romances.)Meanwhile, Moore dramatically develops the pulp heroes that we met
Not as good as the first book, but it's such a brilliant concept, one barely notices the difference.
This just keeps getting better and better.I was literally on the edge of my seat during the last few pages (or rather: edge of my bed).
It was entertaining in its own way, but not really my taste. (view spoiler)[If you think you would enjoy seeing the wrinkled ass of Allan Quartermain while he humps Mina Murry, then this is the book for you. As an added bonus, you will also get to witness Mr. Hyde butt-rape the Invisible Man to death. Yes. You read that right. Also, in case you are a huge fan of animal/human hybrid-making mad scientists, Dr. Moreau makes a cameo appearance.The actual story going on in the background involves an
This was really good. Mina is such a great character.
Whew, the travelogue at the end was rather tedious even if it did have some interesting bits to it. One of the weaknesses of late-Moore is his tendency to over-written expansive prose. The clean poetry of his earlier years has given away to long-windedness. The illustrated comic parts were fun and the plotting is enjoyable and the art is a treat. I'd trade all the end papers nonsense for six more pages of illustrated adventure where Moore's word count is more curtailed.
The concept grows tired in this one because Moore just throws every literary character he can at you to distract you from a paper thin plot. He also writes Nina like an even bigger creep and has her aggressor raped to death by Ed Hyde. While the latter event made me laugh when I first read it a decade ago, it just feels like irresponsible writing now.On the art side it’s still amazing.
In my opinion, this is a hell of a good read.The author took famous characters from Victorian popular literature and put them together into a 'special action group' that works for MI5 in the last decade of 19th Century England. MI5 is lead by Mycroft Holmes by the way.The League consists of Mina Murray, Alan Quartermain, Henry Jekyll and his alter-ego, Captain Nemo and Hawley Griffin, otherwise known as the Invisible Man.And the situation they have to deal with is the invasion of Earth by Mars.I...
So Alan Moore hates women. I guess having read V for Vendetta and Watchmen should have made me aware of that, but call me slow.While the story and art were as interesting as in the first book, the details were mostly gross. First of all, two whole sex scenes between Mina and Allan, which I could have tolerated if not for the mutual professions of love. Then there is an assault on Mina where she doesn't vamp out and fight back. Lastly, someone is raped to death. Oh yeah, and Martians are invading...
While the first volume did a decent job to neatly establish the characters Vol.2 comes out guns blazing, the story took on a more catastrophic scale and I actually was really shocked at certain points how serious Alan Moore took certain subject matters.His funny tie ins and homages to other fictitious characters are a lovely idea and made me laugh multiple times throughout both books. But as I already mentioned when it comes to deep dialouge this book just knocks it out of the park, if its miste...
Alan Moore not without grace frames the beginning of the second volume with a Martian interlude with the participation of John Carter at the beginning (the character of the" Princess of Mars " by Edgar Burroughs, who does not remember), it is from there, from Mars, that monstrous tripods fly to Earth. Not because their homeland is there, but because the resistance shown by the inhabitants there forced them to turn to the Land, which was considered an easier prey.And at the end, the diary of Wilh...
Not a soul down on the cornerThat's a pretty certain signThat wedding bells are breakin' up That old gang of mineWedding Bells are Breaking up That Old Gang Of Mine -Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal and Willie Raskin. Published in 1929,https://www.lyricsplayground.com/alph...It was my mistake to read the LOEG core trilogy out of order. Even knowing what is next, this book feels like the Moore team losing steam. I have enormous respect for Moore, but not based on League Vol 2.It opens with
Volume one of this graphic novel left me on the fence. I wasn’t overly interested in carrying on, yet because my friend had let me borrow her omnibus I decided it couldn’t hurt. After all, it was something that could be completed in no time at all.Truthfully, I enjoy volume two much more than I enjoyed volume one. There was more substance to it than the first book, with more happening throughout. We truly see our characters, watching them interact with each other, seeing the way they deal with a...
A mixed bag. The graphic novel part of this was much superior to that in Volume 1. It started on Mars, featuring a John Carter stand in and the Tharks fighting with some mollusk type beings who then fled in rocket ships to earth, and this turned out to be the War of the Worlds Invasion. The opening was interesting and sparked my imagination but it was irritating that much of the early dialogue was rendered in "Martian," meaning symbols that couldn't be read. Once the invasion of earth began, the...
Even better story than volume one. However, Alan Moore's seeming obsession with creating ancilliary documents as companion pieces to his stories is getting a bit tiresome.The New Traveller's Almanac included with volume two is insufferably long and tedious prose. Moore melds all manner of details from sundry novels into one universe in the context of a travelogue of weird phenomena (perhaps channeling Charles Fort if Fort had a PhD in Victorian literature), but it quickly loses all redeeming val...
Very good follow on story. The characters get more intense. Very recommended
I don't know why, but I don't much care to write a review, yet I feel compelled to do so. And because of that you get point form adapted from a discussion I've been having about the comic while reading it. •One of my favourite parts of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2 are Kevin O'Neill's pencils. The way he exaggerates features through understatement is difficult to describe, but there is a sort of Victorian reality that he captures that is really effective. Another cool bit of pencilling...
Re-read 2020I want to add that Wilhelmina Murray is badass and forever will be badass.re-read! 2017LoEG holds a very special place in my heart, and I try to read my copies at least once a year.Favorite things:- How young and untainted both Murray and Quartermain seem, in comparison to the later volumes.- Mister Hyde. Just thinking about him makes me feel like I'm on a rollercoaster. I think my feelings about him kinda went like this: excited -> curious -> respecting -> unnerved.... -> OH GOD NO
I liked this slightly more than Volume 1. I guess because the world and characters have already been established so I can more easily ignore the things about them that I dislike. Plus puts a neat twist on some great H.G. Wells stories. (I ignored the long text-based story at the end. I came for the comic!)