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…
Always read the book first.
Always.
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?
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.
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…
Wrong.
Watch the movie adapation first, then read the book.
Otherwise you spend two hours screaming at the screen.
Having seen the trailer I’m wondering what the movie is called?
Is it
LXG
The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen
or simply
The League?
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?
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.