The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #1

[lordultimus]

Been quite a few LOEG posts recently, and this sequence from the latest issue of what's purportedly Moore's final work fits well with the last one, concerning a certain character.

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[rainspirit]

Idris Elba needs to be called in to shoot this lunatic in the back of his head.

[thezmage]

Is this a reference to the 1967 Casino Royale with Woody Allen?

[alicemacher]

It is!

[astrakhan42]

I have a working theory that Moore hates anything written after and set after 1950, and this comes across in his more recent projects. Just look at LoEG; Century 1910 and the Nemo spinoff were pretty good, but Century 1969 is unreadable unless you're familiar with the movie Performance and Century 1999 is a silly farce in which Mary Poppins comes from out of nowhere to kill evil Harry Potter. The Top 10 graphic novel set in the aftermath of World War II marks the point where it started becoming really obvious.

[tripodeca113]

No I think the cutoff dates might be closer to 1965

"And I suppose that, in Century as a whole, I mean we're going to be starting off with Bertholt Brecht and the Threepenny Opera which is pretty cool, and then y'know, 1969 we're referencing all these films like Performance and Get Carter which while perhaps not the Threepenny Opera were still pretty good, and in 2009 of course we're referencing the stuff that's around today which doesn't even feel to me like it compares with Get Carter, Performance, or even Villain which wasn't the best film in the world but you know, at least had a performance by Richard Burton and Ian McShane in it that was very watchable."

Yeeah.

[mastermahan]

He did write 1963, and that's a distinctly affectionate reconstruction of early Marvel, even with the Stan Lee jokes. So after that.

[captainbellman]

Loathe as I am to support anything done by original-flavour Bond...can I say that I find that panel with him executing Woody Allen really quite satisfying?

[alicemacher]

His execution target aside, I think O'Neill really nailed the casual, supercilious air with which the rejuvenated M goes about it. M's facial expression is the sort a Very British Gentleman might wear while brushing dust off his jacket.

[captainbellman]

Funny how a couple of page's worth of material from Moore manages to be a hundred times cleverer and more ghastly than a 9-issue miniseries from Ennis on the same subject...