![]() ![]() Along with a concurrent narrative of a superhero group, one of their number back from the future trying to prevent cataclysm. ![]() Emma Peel from The Avengers, with the serials filed off because of copyright) have to fight against a government turned against them by a dastardly James Bond and try to save the other lands of fiction. Following the three survivors from the end of Century, Mina Murray, Orlando, and Emma Knight (Mrs. The Tempest is a tour de force of masters working at the top of their game. The third volume, Century, and the Nemo standalone spin-offs dialed things back a bit, but the ambitious storytelling style returned for the final volume and it was pretty glorious. The story fractured, became non-linear, and began to incorporate various different storytelling forms rather than just comics (or the illustrated prose that served as back-up material in the first two volumes). Then The Black Dossier came out and things got weird. The first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were fairly straight-forward adventure stories, featuring a kind of superhero team of literary characters brought together to stop world-ending threats from other literary pieces. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |