{"id":1412,"date":"2007-11-12T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2007-11-12T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:12:10","slug":"a-blazing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/11\/12\/a-blazing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blazing World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Two<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/a-blazing-world.jpg\" alt=\"A Blazing World\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Jess Nevins<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-317-3<\/p>\n<p>Close on the heels of the first volume (<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/nowreadthis\/?p=1001\">Heroes &amp; Monsters<\/a><\/strong>, ISBN 1-84576-316-5) was Jess Nevins&#8217;s follow-up tome revealing all the secrets and factoids that went into the back-story of and literary antecedents for the sequel to <strong>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Volume Two of Alan Moore and Kevin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s steampunk masterpiece, although using HG Wells&#8217; <strong>War of the Worlds<\/strong> 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 &#8211; and most especially Woking.<\/p>\n<p>As with <strong>Heroes and Monsters<\/strong> the research and deductions are mind-boggling, and often the conclusions drawn are fanciful or erroneous &#8211; as defined by the annotations from Messrs Moore and O&#8217;Neill &#8211; but the text in the main is extensive and gratifying if a deeper reading is what you&#8217;re after. Also included in this volume are in-depth interviews with both creators.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003 Jess Nevins. All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\nThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen \u00e2\u201e\u00a2 &amp; \u00c2\u00a9 2006 Alan Moore &amp; Kevin O&#8217;Neill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Monsters, ISBN 1-84576-316-5) was Jess Nevins&#8217;s follow-up tome revealing all the secrets and factoids that went into the back-story of and literary antecedents for the sequel to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/11\/12\/a-blazing-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Blazing World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}