false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235569128m/6086315.jpg 6086315 3 The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, "Century" is a 240-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 80-page chapters - each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes - this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own, current, twenty-first century. Chapter one is set against the backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife. 6263200 29 4 2009 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910 total:280|5:47|4:96|3:101|2:29|1:7| 280 987 391 75 2 0 false false Mon Sep 28 13:57:17 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 14:09:15 -0700 2009
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'1910', the latest (2009) in Alan Moore's 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' is a bit of a potboiler by any standards. As usual, Moore assumes an in-depth knowledge in the reader of the highways and byways of past popular and esoteric culture, but whereas, in the past, the jumbling ...more...]]> 2 0 false true Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 13:46:52 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 13:50:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 16:02:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 16:33:39 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 06:47:38 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:12:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 10 03:33:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 03:54:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 25 23:13:59 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 23:13:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 07:49:15 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 18:32:18 -0700 2009 I'm withholding judgement on Volume 3 of "The League..." until the rest of the issues are released. Were I to rate this book now, I'd have to give it only 3 out of 5 stars. I wasn't totally sold on the whole penny dreadful song and dance. I did thoroughly enjoy the art and story, though th...

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For those not familiar--the original League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was an interesting idea in which Alan Moore took a number of characters from various stories that were all roughly contemporaneous in their setting, and meshed them together in a ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 11:45:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 02:22:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 12:57:29 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:07:52 -0700 2009 The League does everything that made the previous volumes so entertaining ... although it adds little.

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However, 1910 is actually much more of a straight-up narrative tale, as opposed to the mindbender that was BLAC...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 20:34:16 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 20:42:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:29:45 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 09:24:15 -0700 2009 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century introduces the new team of Mina Harker, Alan Quatermain, Orlando, Thomas Carnacki, and Anthony Ruggles. This group, while not as engaging as the previous incarnation, entertains and thrills in their encounters...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 15:46:06 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 13:56:07 -0700 2009
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