The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

from wilsonknut

If James Joyce's Ulysses is the demonstration and summation of modernist literature, Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier is the paradigm for post-postmodernism in graphic novels. Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad has received critical acclaim for its st...

from rameau

Basically this is the special features DVD for the League of Extraordinary Gentleman series. So some fun stuff, especially Jeeves vs. Cthulhu. This is nerddom at its most high church (Lucian of Samosta, anyone?). The frame story makes no sense at all, since as far as I can tell Mina, Allan et al....

from tiamatq

I'm still not quite sure what to make of Black Dossier. I'm happy to see more LoEG, and pleased that where the comic is interrupted with diaries, books, and travel guides, these are not the same somewhat-dull walls of text that rounded out volume two. The majority of them are fascinating and ente...

from questbird

This was quite an entertaining romp through the history of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The eponymous dossier is a book within a book (stolen by Miss Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain) which details the past adventures of the League, compiled for the attention of Big Brother from 1984. ...

from Girl_Detective

Mina Murray (fka Mina Harker, of Dracula) and Allan Quatermain (he of King Solomon's Mines, not Port Charles), former secret agents of the crown, are back in Britain after a protracted stay in the Americas, in which they avoided the Big Brother regime back home. As before, Moore plays fast (but n...