The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910

Na Black Dossier: terug naar het verhaal van Vol. 2, maar dan wel met meer ambitie. Het moet uit drie boeken gaan bestaan: deel één speelt zich af in 1910 met onder meer een Jack The Ripper dinges erin (en de dochter van Nemo!). Deel twee speelt zich af tussen hippies en occultisten in 1969 (net uitgekomen, ik moet het nog lezen); deel drie zal zich in 2009 afspelen.

I feel a little odd reviewing this, as “Century” is being released in three parts, and this is just the first.

The League enters a new century and the reign of a new monarch in this volume. Fittingly, then, we meet both a new generation of characters (Nemo's daughter plays a prominent role) and a new league, filled with characters a little more obscure than the previous generation. I had to google half the cast to find out who they were, which takes away from part of the charm of the series, which was familiar characters from Victorian literature being placed in a superheroic milieu.

Still, on the other hand, it's Moore and O'Neill, so it's still a good read, even if it's not quite at the level of the previous two volumes.