The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century
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| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century | |
 Promotional art for Century |
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| Publisher | Top Shelf Productions |
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| Schedule | 2009 |
| Number of issues | 3 |
| Main character(s) | Mina Murray Allan Quatermain Orlando A.J. Raffles Thomas Carnacki |
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| Writer(s) | Alan Moore |
| Artist(s) | Kevin O'Neill |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century is the upcoming volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Like the previous volumes it will be written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
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[edit] Background
The third volume will be a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years and entitled Century. Divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, it will take place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in the current twenty-first century.
[edit] What Keeps Mankind Alive
What Keeps Mankind Alive[1] is set against a backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. With Halley's Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George V, and far away on his South Atlantic Island, the science-pirate Captain Nemo is dying. In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mack the Knife. In actual fact Chapter One revolves around the song Pirate Jenny (Seeräuberjenny) from Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. Characters in this chapter will burst into song at various points in the narrative. Moore has written new lyrics for Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny, What Keeps Mankind Alive and Mack's Plea From The Gallows.[2]
[edit] Paint It Black
Paint It Black takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1968, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist. In this volume appearances will be made by at least six incarnations of Ronnie Kray including Harry Starks from Jake Arnott's The Long Firm, Harry Flowers from Performance, and Doug and Dinsdale Piranha from Monty Python. Also there will be "lots of Aleister Crowley." Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius will make an appearance as he was in A Cure for Cancer. [3]
[edit] Book 3, 2008
In chapter three, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2008. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q'umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London mental institution there's a patient who insists that she has all the answers. This volume is set to be released in 2009.[4] By 2008 the reader will be faced with a submariner who has Nemo as a great-grandfather.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ WORD March Issue Extended Edition: more Alan Moore | Word Magazine
- ^ Winter, Andrew; Moore, Alan. "Northampton's Finest: Alan Moore Interview", Tripwire Annual 2007, Tripwire Publishing, 2007, pp. 12-17. (English)
- ^ http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/006924458.cfm
- ^ Catalog>Top Shelf Productions
- ^ Comic Book Resources - CBR News: Alan Moore: Inside "The Black Dossier"
[edit] External links
- Annotations to the League (Notes and annotations collected by Jess Nevins in a page-by-page commentary to the comics.)
- The League of Leagues website
- The DC Comics Message Board for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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