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

[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.