Nemo: the Roses of Berlin Solicit

[espanolbot]

“From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father’s weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni’s raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, traveling with her aging lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals, and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany’s notorious ‘Twilight Heroes’, a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse.”

“Continuing in the thrilling tradition of Heart of Ice, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in a blazing new adventure, set in a city of totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares. Cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, lost in the black and bloody alleyways where thrive The Roses of Berlin.”

The new volume will be released in April from Top Shelf.

Looking forward to this, if only because I find Janni to be a lot more interesting a character than Mina and Allen became after Volume 2. I am looking forward to the Twilight Heroes appearances, particularly as they seem to be mainly characters from German silent cinema (like Dr Rotwang and Maria/Futura from Metropolis) that were only mentioned in passing in the other volumes.

And the cool thing about Adenoid Hynkel being the stand-in for Hitler in the LoEG-verse is that that means that this speech actually has Important Historical Significance there.

"Greatest Speech Ever Made Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator W/Time Inception Full HD Best Version" (Watch on YouTube)

And for the context, the speech is from the Great Dictator, where the Hitler stand-in has been accidentally replaced by a Jewish barber who is his exact double.

Comments

[rainspirit]

Hell yes! I was hoping to read about the German League ever since I read about them in... was it 1910? I really wanted to see that duel with Orlando on top of the opera house. Even if I don't get that, though...

Haven't checked out Heart of Ice, on the other hand... should probably get around to that.

[mrstatham]

Given the timeline, I'd definitely get HOI before reading this one. It's certainly smaller and less ambitious than the usual League volumes in some respects, but it's much, much better than Century was, IMO, where the real highlights were Janni and Mary Poppins.