Thursday, 1 September 2011

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Moore does it again with the League fighting occult foes in swinging 1960s London.  We open as dissolute rock god Baz is murdered by black hooded figures.  The Nautilus breaches off the white cliffs of Dover and Captain Nemo's daughter helps Mina Harker, Orlando and Allan to land where they catch a bus to London.  They are in pursuit of old enemy Haddo, who is indeed dead, but a sinister plot for a wicked spirit to find a new body is afoot.  Great psychdelic drawings and use of contemporary fashions and drugs with Moore's usual twisting of reality, not the best League adventure but still interesting.

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