League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) |
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 | Anyone expecting a continuation of the strong first volume or weaker second is bound for disappointment. The most surprising change is the mass of text that comprises the Black Dossier of the title and is integrated into the strip in sections read by Mina and Quatermain, the only two of the 1898 team left and to feature.
Moore seems to have taken this chance to write a text based history of the League from the Middle Ages through to the Second World War ending at the ousting of Churchill and the introduction of Orwell's Big Brother society. Whilst it is entertaining it is at the expense of the strip story which seems to have been a secondary consideration and merely a vehicle for the dossier. Some of the sections I was unable to read from either disinterest or incomprehension and if the strip had been stronger they would have been laborious to wade through, which you still feel like it is grinding through some of them anyway.
There is the usual melding of borrowed characters, ... read more.
Written by Kevin O'Neill.
Published 10 July 2008.
Published by Wildstorm.
rrp £10.99.
200 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 1401203078
ISBN-13: 9781401203078 | |
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