You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
108 reviews for:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1: The Absolute Edition
Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
3.67 AVERAGE
108 reviews for:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1: The Absolute Edition
Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
3.67 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Artistically a great achievement. Kevin O' Neille draws the characters in all their ugliness and greatness at the same time. The story, a fancy and well written way of celebrating several fictional characters from the Victorian era, was engaging and at times the pages couldn't turn fast enough. I also really enjoyed the extra details like the travelling journals. (Only wish they put that in comic form, especially Mina and Allan reuniting, their romance was unexpected, but in the end I rooted for them ) But the amount of sexual violence you get in every issue of TLoEG was disturbing. I think Moore could have skipped it for a big part.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Drug use, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i think that this is a really fun text ! the characters are fun and theres a good balance between it being a bit silly (esp w its visual jokes) and having some really serious themes? i really loved mina in this and i really enjoyed her dynamic w hyde and quatermain in the second volume!! and i quite liked that the league is j a bunch of misfits from literature and that they arent really all good people. the racism??? in the first volume wasn't fantastic but i think i kinda understand why its there if that makes sense. one thing we did talk about in seminars was the fact that it doesnt really shy away from what would be 19th century reality? and i think that's smth i quite appreciated about it as a whole !
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a fun collection acting almost as an Avengers of Victorian classic literature. The characterisation of most of the main cast is good - I especially loved the interpretations of Captain Nemo and Edward Hyde - but some of the writing was a bit lacking in places I thought. The romance subplot between Mina and Quatermaine seemed forced and irrelevant to both the story and the development of either character. It seems like Moore just really wanted to have the sole female character get naked and freaky with the old dude.
I did enjoy the chosen mix of source material, hosting a fun adventure around London, but some of the jokes and dialogue choices, showing just how racist common beliefs were, got stale very quickly. The whole thing has Allan Moore's characteristic unapologetic weirdness to it, but some of that could have been toned down.
I didn't read the short prose stories at the end of each volume, only because they were quite long and the writing style was pretty dry for my taste. I might come back to them someday, but for now I'm happy just with the main story I've read.
I did enjoy the chosen mix of source material, hosting a fun adventure around London, but some of the jokes and dialogue choices, showing just how racist common beliefs were, got stale very quickly. The whole thing has Allan Moore's characteristic unapologetic weirdness to it, but some of that could have been toned down.
I didn't read the short prose stories at the end of each volume, only because they were quite long and the writing style was pretty dry for my taste. I might come back to them someday, but for now I'm happy just with the main story I've read.
If you like crossovers, this is the way to go. Also, don't let the movie steer you away from it.
To have both volumes together is great, so you can see the team be gathered and then get in the big adventure. Don't skip the extras, especially the ones not in prose. Also, don't forget that this is not only an adventure tale, but a very humorous story, in the British sense. It's full of wit and great criticism, although it may be somewhat hidden.
To have both volumes together is great, so you can see the team be gathered and then get in the big adventure. Don't skip the extras, especially the ones not in prose. Also, don't forget that this is not only an adventure tale, but a very humorous story, in the British sense. It's full of wit and great criticism, although it may be somewhat hidden.
I'm glad I picked up this omnibus edition because while volume one is mainly Moore having fun, volume two vaults into the same affecting greatness that characterizes my favorite works by him. Personally, I didn't find that the intertextuality amounted to much more than an appealing playground, but by volume two the characters are fleshed out enough to create some genuinely touching moments. When a book makes you describe Mr. Hyde (of Jekyll fame) as "ultimately dignified", that's some writing!
I still have no idea why they adapted this into a film, much less one that feels like a strange midpoint in between Wild Wild West and Van Helsing—both of which are kind of enjoyable in their own deranged way, but combined in the film to utterly unappealing effect. Anyways, don't let that turn you off this enjoyable book.
I still have no idea why they adapted this into a film, much less one that feels like a strange midpoint in between Wild Wild West and Van Helsing—both of which are kind of enjoyable in their own deranged way, but combined in the film to utterly unappealing effect. Anyways, don't let that turn you off this enjoyable book.
I heard of this book when I was younger, of course. There’s a movie based on it that came out in my childhood, but I never actually bothered to look into it beyond hearing about it in passing.
And then I saw the full volume set in a comic book store, and I knew I had to buy it.
Created by the man who brought us V for Vendetta and Watchmen, this graphic novel is not just a raunchy tale of mystery and action, but it is also an homage to some of the best characters literature has to offer.
Starting off in nineteenth century England, the story follows Mina Harker (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) as she’s tasked with finding a group of individuals who are to form a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Among them are Captain Nemo (Jules Vernes’s Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), the Invisible Man (H G Wells’s The Invisible Man), Dr Jekyll (R L Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), and Allan Quatermain (H Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines). Other characters also include some famous detectives written about by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, but I won’t go too much into that…
Once Mina gathers her team, they are sent on a few strange quests by a mysterious benefactor that lead to the (almost) destruction of the world, in a beautiful homage to H G Wells’s The War of the Worlds, with a guest appearance by other H G Wells characters from The Island of Dr Moreau.
Basically, if you love nineteenth to twentieth century literature and want to enjoy a story that incorporates some of the greatest characters we’ve all heard of, you should definitely read this book.
What I will tell you is this – while the characters are amazingly adapted into a dark fantastic version of our world, and there are some truly brilliantly written moments, this graphic novels also comes with a massive trigger warning for rape and very graphic sexual scenes (even when the sex is consensual), as well as body horror and gore. The art does not shy away from depicting some truly horrific stuff, even if it is just alluding to it sometimes. I would exercise caution because this graphic novel is not for anyone who isn’t mature enough to be seeing graphic stuff like what I’ve mentioned.
All in all, if you love fantasy, nineteenth century literature, and raunchy adventures, I definitely recommend this graphic novel. It’s a brilliant read and will take you at least three days to get through because there’s just so much to it that you can’t absorb it all in one sitting.
And then I saw the full volume set in a comic book store, and I knew I had to buy it.
Created by the man who brought us V for Vendetta and Watchmen, this graphic novel is not just a raunchy tale of mystery and action, but it is also an homage to some of the best characters literature has to offer.
Starting off in nineteenth century England, the story follows Mina Harker (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) as she’s tasked with finding a group of individuals who are to form a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Among them are Captain Nemo (Jules Vernes’s Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), the Invisible Man (H G Wells’s The Invisible Man), Dr Jekyll (R L Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), and Allan Quatermain (H Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines). Other characters also include some famous detectives written about by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, but I won’t go too much into that…
Once Mina gathers her team, they are sent on a few strange quests by a mysterious benefactor that lead to the (almost) destruction of the world, in a beautiful homage to H G Wells’s The War of the Worlds, with a guest appearance by other H G Wells characters from The Island of Dr Moreau.
Basically, if you love nineteenth to twentieth century literature and want to enjoy a story that incorporates some of the greatest characters we’ve all heard of, you should definitely read this book.
What I will tell you is this – while the characters are amazingly adapted into a dark fantastic version of our world, and there are some truly brilliantly written moments, this graphic novels also comes with a massive trigger warning for rape and very graphic sexual scenes (even when the sex is consensual), as well as body horror and gore. The art does not shy away from depicting some truly horrific stuff, even if it is just alluding to it sometimes. I would exercise caution because this graphic novel is not for anyone who isn’t mature enough to be seeing graphic stuff like what I’ve mentioned.
All in all, if you love fantasy, nineteenth century literature, and raunchy adventures, I definitely recommend this graphic novel. It’s a brilliant read and will take you at least three days to get through because there’s just so much to it that you can’t absorb it all in one sitting.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated