Alan Moore Book Club

[Marky Lazer]

Promethea does rather lose its story and become more a textbook on the Tree or Life and the Tarot (with some other mysticism thrown in). If you're not interested in that, you find find it annoying, though the first couple of books would probably still be worth reading. (Personally I loved it all, but that kind of tning fascinates me).

Sounds fascinating as well. Tomorrow a next instalment of League.

 

[Rufio]

I have read Promethea not extreme at all if you are use to reading comic books. If you have read writers that like to experment.

Such as who? I have to say I've never read anything quite as off the wall as Promethea.

 

[Marky Lazer]

Moore, Alan, and Kevin O'Neill. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One. La Jolla: America's Best Comics, 2002.


4: “Gods of Annihilation”


Writer: Alan Moore
Illustrator: Kevin O'Neill
Colourer: Benedict Dimagmaliw
Letterer: William Oakley










**THIS ENTRY CONTAINS SPOILERS, CONTINUE READING WITH CAUTION**


#4. Gods of Annihilation.


Plot: After reading issue 4, we're well under way into Alan Moore's fictional world. The plot thickens with every passing page. The important part of this chapter is not the cavorite that they team steals back from the evil doctor or how they use each member's specific talent to do so. After handing the cavorite over, the real story starts: Griffin finds out “M” is an evil genius himself instead of a protector of the British empire, a criminal kingpin who needed to deal with the competition (apparently he is James Moriarty, arch-rival of Sherlock Holmes).


With this scheme the story really starts to go somewhere in my opinion. The “special unit” using their “powers” obviously echoes Moore's love for superhero comics, but in the end it doesn't make for a very interesting read. Maybe enjoyable, but not something earth-shattering. Even though we all enjoy watching the Spider-man films, for example, we expect more from Mr Moore. This side-stepping turn of events, this back-stabbing twist is surely going to make the next issue a lot more interesting compared to a story where the group would continue simply doing things.


More about “M” will be explained in the following issue and therefore it is more sensible to keep this critique short and head over to issue 5 as quick as possible...