The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 #6: "You Should See Me Dance the Polka..."

[superboyprime]

"Emotionally, there’s no way he can be hurt. He doesn’t have real emotions. So to inflict that pain on himself, by choice, yeah, it seemed appropriate for Hyde, who I was beginning to see as a much bigger and wiser and more complex figure than I had originally. I’d never seen Hyde as stupid. But in that second book I began to see Hyde as wise, wise where Jekyll was foolish. Not stupid where Jekyll was intelligent, wise where Jekyll was foolish. Hyde’s got a much better and clearer understanding of human nature than Jekyll ever had." - Alan Moore

Comments

[alicemacher]

How ironic that Hyde, of all people, after all he's done, ends up being the single most complex and movingly heroic character in this volume, if not in all of LoEG thus far.

[shadur]

I know, I know, scan limit, but I'm kind bummed you didn't leave in his cheerful walk and song across the bridge.

[arilou_skiff]

The bio-bomb thing always felt like such a huge miss compared to Wells. (and weirdly Moore has this be *less* of a criticism of Imperialism than Wells does)

But then again Moore's "invincible secret government shenanigans" thing is tiresome as hell.

[dcbanacek]

I wonder what he would have used if the local Mason Lodge had actually let him in when he applied.

[tripodeca113]

Well that was an amazing death.

[mister_terrific]

That bit with Hyde and the Martian remains one of my favorite all time moments in comics.

[shakalooloo]

That 'Welcome to England' bit... That strikes me as proof that Alan Moore has watched Independence Day. And now I'm picturing Alan Moore watching Independence Day, and it is glorious.

[deathcrist2000]

I've got this long running theory that, because it appears in two of his most personal works (Promethea and Jerusalem), one of Alan Moore's favorite films is Reservoir Dogs. Which makes Tarantino's next film all the more... interesting.

[laughing_tree]

It's interesting that, given Moore's statements about not liking the Killing Joke because it's only about Batman and the Joker and there aren't real people like that (meaning the story's not about anything real), he would do a story so centered on the psychology of Mr. Hyde, a character who is by his very nature completely unlike regular people, mentally-speaking.