More Moore

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

NuRama has a preview up for the new LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN title, "Century." Nine pages, which suggests a high count on the actual issue.

Looks like this one will be a bit more... straightforward, I guess, than Black Dossier. And perhaps we'll finally even be given a reason to give a crap about Orlando. Moore's recent work has left me pretty unmoved and I wasn't planning on picking this up, but I may have to reconsider.

Comments

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

I agree. This does look more serious and more promising than Black Dossier, which was really just Moore having a bit of fun and indulging his saucy side. Some of it worked for me, mind you; I absolutely loved the Wodehouse parody "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!" and the Ingsoc Tijuana Bible. But the Fanny Hill sequel was dull, the Shakespeare pastiche juvenile and the Kerouac pastiche unreadable (which I admit may have been Moore's intention). Above all, there was far too little actual comic and the main plot, such as it was, did nothing to advance the overall League saga.

Again, though, this preview appeals to me.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

Kerouac pastiche unreadable (which I admit may have been Moore's intention)

As it's Kerouac, I'm rather willing to wager it was.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

I really don't understand why people dislike BLACK DOSSIER. It's the only one of the books I still re-read, and yes, it's Moore and O'Neill having fun, but in a way, isn't that what LOEG is all about anyway? All I know is I bought this book in 2007 and it STILL gives me enjoyment every time I read it, far more than I can say about pretty much all other comics I've bought since then.

And I think the fact that its story is oblique rather than on top has something to do with it. The other two plot-based ones are wonderful in almost every way. But having absorbed the story, they lose something on the next reading and it's more about looking at the details. This one is ALL "the details." And I'll add that it's some of O'Neill's wittiest and most inventive work.

I'm sorry, but I like watching these two show off. So sue me.

[filbypott.insanejournal.com]

I thought Black Dossier was a very entertaining attempt at world-building.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

I think 'Black Dossier' would have worked considerably better if it had been the last, or next to last, in a series, instead of being smack dab in the middle. I enjoyed it well enough, but there were bits where I was thinking 'uh, should I really be reading this, seeing as how it clearly gives away entire plotlines which will probably be published at some later date'? The account of how the League went up against their French and German counterparts was so over-detailed that I found myself consciously trying to NOT absorb it thoroughly, because if I know Moore, he'll rewrite that entire sequence as one of the next volumes - maybe even this upcoming volume - of 'LOEG'. Which means he's just ruined the entire story for us in advance down to the last twist and turn. The guy is undeniably a genius, but he needs to show a bit more restraint.