From that quite spectacular Olympic Ceremony tonight, we saw Voldemort amongst other villains from British children's literature, such as the Childcatcher, Cruella De Ville, The Queen Of Hearts and more, soundly defeated by Mary Poppins in multitude, in a tribute to literature, the National Health Service and the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
And the final[...]
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I don't care I'm sticking with the headline.
And while the new Walking Dead collection dominates, not how the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen challenges it, The Biys does pretty well too, beating DC's Bat books I'd like to remind you that The Boys was dropped by DC Comics under the orders of Paul Levitz.
That the new[...]
So I picked up the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier in its reissued version from Gosh Comics today (they are having a Fatale signing and launch with Sean Phillips, as well as an exhibition of his original art) and indeed it comes with a vinyl single record, recorded by Alan Moore and Tim[...]
The fools.
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Find out more Sunday, July 15 at the Amazing Spider-Man panel, 12:30PM PST, during Comic Con International 2012!
ICv2 – First Half Comic Sales Up 18%
Sales of comics and graphic novels in comic stores were up 18.16% for the first half of 2012 compared to the first half[...]
Tomorrow, Americans get their dirty hands on League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 2009 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill I've had a copy for a week and a half and have rather enjoyed it So now it's time to pick out five favourite references, like last time, over and above those picked out in an[...]
It's his second novel. It is reputed to be half a million words long. It may take some time to read, it's taken a very long to write. Jerusalem, by Alan
But The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 2009 is so much more… and for those who feel media coverage has spoiled this book at all, I disagree completely I'd read everything, yet going in I found acres of surprise – and an amazing, wonderful and awe inspiring finale Which I am most definitely not going[...]
The Independent On Sunday, tomorrow's edition of the serious minded British newspaper, has splashed with the headline that Harry Potter is the anti-Christ… Or at least he is in the final chapter of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, 2009.
The 1969 chapter saw the fictitious practitioner of the occult, and central antagonist of the Century[...]
Well there's a turn up for the books.
Back in the deepest darkest days, DC Comics and Wildstorm were struggling with a virtual battle between Paul Levitz and Alan Moore over the publication of the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier Alan Moore had pushed the book over its use of characters that some might[...]
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 is coming.
You can read a preview of the comic here.. although the image above is new Which appears to show Prospero reaching out to Orlando from his red/blue glasses 3D Blazing World, with Hyde and Peter Pan, as seen in The Black Dossier.
And you can get both the newly-distributed-in-the-UK[...]
Here are some early looks at the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 2009 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill to be published in June I've tried to summon my inner Jess Nevins… do feel free to join in.
A rusted ruined Martain ship from the Martian invasion of Earth, in LOEG II The Treens Out[...]
Richard Pace was the first comic book creator to state that they knew that Before Watchmen was actually happening. And now he has a take on the current
It was one of the more odder publishing decisions.
Despite The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier passing through DC's legal department with only a few nips and tucks before being cleared, Paul Levitz, decided to overrule them and declared that the volume would not be distributed in the UK for what DC called "international[...]
In yesterday's webchat (referred to earlier), Alan Moore revealed that the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to follow the conclusion of Century this summer, is to be called Nemo: Heart Of Ice, and that forty of the forty-eight pages involved have been written so far… and that we'll see it before the end of[...]
Courtesy of Gosh Comics, London, who are part and parcel of Knockabout Comics, the UK publisher of the League Of Extraordianry Gentlemen. Kevin O'Neill is
In two weeks, Kevin O'Neill will begin selling ninety pages from League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier and Century: 1910 and 1969.
On display at the Galerie Champaka, Brussels and Galerie 9eme Art, Paris, this will coincide with the recent French publication of 1969 in album format by Delcourt.
The artwork for the first two League[...]
The only ones i'm not buying are Resurrection Man, Suicide Squad, Red Hood and the Outlaws and Birds of Prey.
Remember that column I did where I told you about how I talked to the absolutely lovely Alan Moore on the phone and he told me he was going to send me his new League of[...]
Todd Klein presents some of his lettering work from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 as well as some of the working practices of all parties on the series.
So we have script excerpts for the following panels;
NOW WE HAVE A SHOT THROUGH MINA'S EYES AS SHE STARTS TO MILDLY EXPERIENCE THE FIRST[...]
And as well as a free copy of Boom!'s The Traveller, a preview of Infinite Vacation, Warren Ellis opining on the future of webcomics, interviews with Mark Waid, Adi Granov, Bryan Hitch and Walt Simonson, is an piece with Kevin O'Neill, and a look at some letterless art from the second book of League Of[...]
Next year sees the second volume of Century, the three volume League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill And in this chapter, published by Top Shelf and Knockabout, our Victorian pulp heroes hit the sixties The solicitation reads;
CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging[...]
No annoying Ricky Gervais turn for a start.
LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN VOLUME TWO – Not only is there Life On Mars, but there's lots of it All the Martian races from Victorian fiction fight each other and the HG Welles lot come to Earth to continue their battle Where they are met by the colected[...]
Think about it, what else has Moore written?
The Watchmen scene with Kovacs, his mother and her customer?
The scene in the boarding school with The Invisible Man in League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One?
The predatory vicar scene in V For Vendetta?
If you put everyone in the UK with copies of those books in jail for three[...]