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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
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For most of the world a graphic novel is a comic book by any other name. But don't short change the genre. Some of the most interesting writing going on today is masquerading as "comics".
Created by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, is his series about a crime-fighting team composed of characters from Victorian-era literature: Allan Quatermain, the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo. In Black Dossier (out 11/14), he ups the ante further, imagining a 1950s-era Britain where fictional spies and suspicious figures like James Bond, Emma Peel, and Harry Lime all coexist — though their interests don’t necessarily coincide.
Much of Black Dossier is told through sequential panels and word balloons — except for the interludes of typeset text: secret government files, personal memoirs, even the first scene of a suppressed play by William Shakespeare. (Don’t worry — there’s plenty of violence, nudity, and naughty words, too, and the last chapter is in
3-D.) The more text you’re willing to read, the more the story reveals, and the more English literature you already know — from Orlando to 1984 — the more surprises Black Dossier has in store for you.
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By far one of the most graphicly compelling books — comic or otherwise — available today. The number of insets, varied documents, and sly detail that comprise this book make it a must own for anyone who wants to see what a well-designed book should look like.
And, of course, it is a brilliantly crafted piece, both in words and images. Kudos to all involved in this.
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