The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Two
By Jess Nevins (Titan Books)
ISBN 1-84576-317-3
Close on the heels of the first volume (Heroes & Monsters, ISBN 1-84576-316-5) was Jess Nevins’s follow-up tome revealing all the secrets and factoids that went into the back-story of and literary antecedents for the sequel to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Volume Two of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s steampunk masterpiece, although using HG Wells’ War of the Worlds as its primary narrative engine, draws from a vast spring of fantastic literature to pit the protagonists of the League against an unstoppable invasion that devastates the earth – and most especially Woking.
As with Heroes and Monsters the research and deductions are mind-boggling, and often the conclusions drawn are fanciful or erroneous – as defined by the annotations from Messrs Moore and O’Neill – but the text in the main is extensive and gratifying if a deeper reading is what you’re after. Also included in this volume are in-depth interviews with both creators.
© 2003 Jess Nevins. All Rights Reserved.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen â„¢ & © 2006 Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill.