# Mina Murray and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925 "2002-11-15T21:07:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skydive101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Skydive101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skydive101)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/21 "2003-05-15T00:50:21Z")
Thank you all for the links provided, after my first post I went and did some research. Wow, I had no idea this book(s) even existed, no idea it was from the same guy who did From Hell, pretty much no idea period. In my searching I found a lot of fans pretty upset about the libertys being taken with Moore’s work. Now I’m wondering which I should do first, see the movie or read the books… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/22 "2003-05-15T01:00:12Z")
Always read the book first. Always. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/23 "2003-05-15T01:11:26Z")
OK, now I’m interested in this book/comic/graphic novel. Is it an ongoing series for years now? Is it done? Can I just buy a few graphic novels and be up to date? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/24 "2003-05-15T01:18:11Z")
**bouv** , at present there there have been one six-issue miniseries, which has been collected into both a trade paperback and a hardcover, and a second six-issue miniseries, the fifth issue of which came out last week. So you don’t have much to buy to get caught up. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/25 "2003-05-15T01:21:47Z")
The first series is available as a trade paper back. It covers the gathering of the members of the League, through their triumph over {spoiler} and the recovery of the stolen {spoiler}, their discovery that they are actually working for {spoiler} and not {spoiler} as they had presumed, and their foiling of his foul plot to {spoiler} half of London. It pretty much brings everything up to the landing of the invading Martian cylinders. But, that is for the second series… ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/26 "2003-05-16T18:11:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > **Always read the book first.** Wrong. Watch the movie adapation first, then read the book. Otherwise you spend two hours screaming at the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/27 "2003-05-16T20:07:58Z")
Having seen the trailer I’m wondering what the movie is called? Is it LXG The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen or simply The League? ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/28 "2003-05-16T20:17:02Z")
I wonder why they didn’t just do a version of the First book itself. A darned good story and would have made a fine film… besides the Story board is already doen isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925/29 "2003-05-16T21:06:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mahaloth \* > **Let’s just say that the movie is “loosely” based on the comic. It has a completely different plot, Mina is a vampire(wtf?), Tom Sawyer is there(WTF?), and Dorian Grey is also in the League(WTF! WTF! WTF!).** The movie executives in charge think the American teenager isn’t smart enough to understand Mina if she isn’t a vampire. They also think they wouldn’t be interested in a bunch of British heroes, so they added the American characters of Tom and Dorian. Sadly, they’re probably right. I got the hardback collection a couple of years ago, before the movie was announced. I’m glad I did. It’s a hell of a comic, very literate. The movie is being directed by Stephen Norrington, who gave us _Blade._ It’ll probably be mediocre, plus or minus depending on how familiar you are with the source material. Of course, it’ll be mildly amusing to hear comic-book purists say the movie sucks because of how badly it diverges from its source, while being apparently unaware of how much the characters in the comic diverge from _their_ original sources. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mina-murray-and-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/136925.md?page=1)