Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! In an alternate England in , Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain seek the Black Dossier, which contains the history of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen through the centuries, while fleeing from deadly secret agents.
Reviewer: CWilson - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 23, Subject: Very good!!! Reviewer: Mateus - - October 20, Subject: I don't now about this The book is very good, but there is some very bad images, I think this is for about 16 year or more. The book starts in a dystopic London at a bar, where British spy James Bond , fresh from his adventures fighting a " yellow peril " attempts to seduce Oodles O'Quim, going as far as to take her directly to the "Ministry of Love", decaying former headquarters of the Big Brother regime.
Bond attempts to rape O'Quim, but she subdues him with a brick in her handbag, before her lover arrives. The two reveal themselves as Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain and retrieve what they arrived for - the Black Dossier - before leaving the shamed Bond. Harry Lime , the new M , hires Bond to hunt down Murray and Quatermain with Emma Night , skilled femme fatale and daughter of the famed industrialist John Night, and Hugo Drummond , an aged, jingoistic spy and paternal uncle of Night.
They believe that Murray and Quatermain are heading North. Billy Bunter , the caretaker and former student, reveals that many British spies were groomed at the school, and that Bob Cherry is Harry Lime.
Murray and Quatermain attend a spaceport on their detour space-travel technology has flourished since the extraterrestrial invasion of Volume II. By coincidence, Bond, Night and Drummond are also attending the spaceport. Bond and Night share a moment of passion despite the violent warnings of a protective Drummond, and the group accidentally stumble upon Murray and Quatermain. Murray and Quatermain escape via a prototype robot-piloted ship and parachute into Scotland, seeking a secluded castle in the countryside, only to be closely pursued by the spies.
The castle is guarded by Galley-Wag , who rescues Murray and Quatermain and prepares them for their voyage. Murray and Quatermain reveal their identities to Drummond and reveal to him that Bond is a trecherous double-agent for the United States, that Dr. No was a hoax manufactured by the Americans and that Bond is the man who killed John Night. After they leave on a magical vessel, Drummond attempts to kill Bond but he is shot by Bond at point-blank range.
So they gave him the work to process with, and he has done a shattering job on it. We'd been told that Ray enjoyed it, it was one of the most challenging things he'd ever done, and the end result is spectacular. But this was all delaying the publication of the book, which if they had let it go to press, it could have been published last spring, easily. However, they looked it over and decided it was more of a Christmas book, since they noticed the little sprigs and holly that me and Kevin had put in the lettering.
And so there was a lot of back-and-forth, which Kevin took a lot of the brunt of, since I was out of the loop, which is a shame on Kevin's behalf, really, because he's had to get messed around like this. I think finally there was some intervention. At that point when we stressed our disapproval, there was a mad scheme to bring out the cheap edition and the Absolute edition at the same time, which was ludicrous.
So now I believe the Absolute edition will be coming out sometime quite early next year, and that will include the single. Kevin has seen a proof copy of the thing and he said that it does look wonderful. The only thing that was missing is that it wasn't realized on the scale and the single wasn't included. So I believe the 3-D section is intact, and I may be wrong on this, but from everything I've been told, Kevin seems very, very pleased with the end result.
It's just a pity that it couldn't have come out earlier and in the way that it had originally been imagined, since it seemed that with this plan to bring out both of them at the same time that that was always completely possible, it was just that a decision had been made, which I don't know, at the end of the day, it could be an almost unbelievable pettiness and malice that was behind this, or it could be an equally unbelievable incompetence. Or it could be some heady and dizzying blend of the two.
Whatever the reason, I felt that if I was going to continue to do works of the complexity of "The Black Dossier," and I do, then probably the mainstream American comic book industry is not the place for them.
I don't know if it has ever been the place. By the time readers are halfway through "The Black Dossier," they might start to get a sense that the story is growing into something more than just a period adventure thriller - it aims to cover the entire history of popular fiction. With 'The Black Dossier,' we thought we could take this basis and build upon it still further and provide a timeline for our fictional world.
We could fill in details about previous incarnations of the League. And in the wraparound narrative, we could show what had happened to the League since , since what had happened in the past sixty years, with our narrative being set in the London of , turned out to be every bit as fascinating and exotic as the Victorian period has been, at least for Kevin and me.
I've no idea whether the previous readership will share our enthusiasm for the s. When we looked at the fictional landscape around that time, it seemed every bit as marvelous and revealing as the Victorian landscape had been. The s were a transitional period in itself as it moved from the early 20th Century to the decade after the Second World War, and the book offers a commentary on the period more barbed than works from the time ever could.
There was the beginning of espionage fiction, there were still the popular 'Billy Bunter' schoolboy novels being published, and interestingly, since , with the first incarnation of the League, we more or less only had access to the fiction icons of that time," said Moore. Now as we move up through the centuries, more things became available. In the book that Kevin and me are working on now, "Century," volume three, which is to be published by Top Shelf, we've incorporated things from theatre and the very early silent films.
By , we were able to draw on elements from Film and Television, which we have done. So although it is very Anglo-centric, there are American elements to the plot, shall we say, and I think there are characters and wonders in there to make up for the absence of Mr. Britain in the s did not have a space program in the real world. However, in the fictional world, we did have a space program. It would have begun with Professor Cavil's journey to the moon in So if the technology was around in , then you could presuppose how it might have developed and evolved.
So by , there might be a spaceport just outside Birmingham, perhaps. It shouldn't be a surprise that the presence of George Orwell, author of "Animal Farm" and "," would lurk in the shadows of "The Black Dossier.
What we have done is, since this is fictional world, we weren't actually at war with Adolf Hitler, we were at war with Adenoid Hynkel, the character played by Charlie Chaplin in 'The Great Dictator. So we assume to have commenced at the end of the war, in , and there are a lot of interesting little threads that we worked off from that. I mean, Orwell had said that he had based his secret state apparatchiks upon the vicious Public School prefects of his youth.
So there was always an interesting thing where Frank Richards, the author of the 'Billy Bunter' stories, was having to turn out so many Bunter stories because of his gambling addiction. These were mentioned in an essay that George Orwell wrote , that were basically talking about how the Billy Bunter stories were just holding up the traditional British Empire values of racism and class consciousness in an approving light with the author apparently finding all foreigners amusing, and being very patronizing towards foreigners and women.
Orwell wrote a very capable essay decrying all this, and foolishly, Frank Richards, stung by this review, decided to retaliate in a little letter where, in very wounded terms, went through all of Orwell's points and tried his best to dismiss them. But he said, 'As for Mr. Orwell's point about me depicting foreigners as being comical, well, they are! And weirdly enough, there had previously been two Russian agents exposed, Guy Burgess and Anthony MacLean, and there was a rumour there was a third double agent in MI5.
So he was the basis for 'The Third Man. Moore had finished writing " Lost Girls " long before he began writing "The Black Dossier," and it could be said that the theme of using popular fictional characters to comment on cultural and political mores has been carried over to "The Black Dossier" and the next volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
When I finished "Lost Girl," I was in quite an ambivalent mood as to how I would be treating sex and sexuality in my work in the future, and I decided I would probably never again do any work of pure erotica, because there didn't seem to be very much point after having completed "Lost Girls. So it struck me that the best way to proceed would be to kind of fold in my approach to sex and erotic into the general fabric of my work so that when a sexual scene was required, then I could bring the proper erotic sensibilities to play upon it.
We are constantly learning with each work and we apply it to anything else that we're doing. Also, we were no longer fixed in the somewhat prudish Victorian era.
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