A review by shadybanana
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore

3.0

I had heard about the movie, but I didn’t know that the comic was the main origin. I read the movie had very bad reviews. I mean we are talking about review worse than Ryan Reynold's 'Green Lantern'. Any way I started reading the comic and believe me, it was freaking awesome. To know that all of my favorite characters, Captain Nemo, Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll (aka Hyde), James Bond, Sherlock & Mycroft Holmes and
Spoiler James Moriarty (so freaking unbelievable, by the way I hope you didn’t read this spoiler, otherwise you have ruined the comic for yourself)
that they were all together and see them all together in one story arc is like over dozing on cool-ness. The badass-ery was top-notch. The 5 main heroes were marvelously depicted in the comic. It was like all of there authors had sit together and written this. Epic stuff! The art lacked a bit at some places and was (if I may say) a bit over comical at some places. A general hilarity pervasive in comics was present in adequate amounts.
Spoiler All the part about Moriarty being a shadow fighter and a creation of Millitary Intelligence was difficult to digest and very weird not to mention totally unexpected.
However the character of James Bond was not what I think it should have been. Lastly, the ending was actually not as good as the rest of the comic. Also, the character of Miss Murray has been kept 'contained' for far too much time. Still a 4/4.5 star