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One of the top 50 bestselling graphic novels. There are 250,000 copies of volumes 1 and 2 in print so far. Set over a hundred years, volume 1 was set in 1910 and saw the pantheon of legends first alerted to a supernatural threat. Volume 2 focused on 1969, where a promised armageddon has arrived, and there is only one remaining member of the cohort left to avert it. This climax of the third and most ambitious volume to contain the League's unfolding narrative turns its scrutiny of the fictional landscape to our presently uproarious era as it hurtles towards a staggering conclusion.
Book Details
Publisher:
KNOCKABOUT COMICS
Publication Date:
18-Jun-2012
ISBN:
9780861661633
Guardian review
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009 review
the guardian Tue 10 July 2012
Moore and O'Neill's outlandish series began in 1999 with the Nautilus surfacing off Cairo, and has spent the ensuing years weaving characters from literature and pop culture into a tapestry of intergalactic warfare, bookish in-jokes and grotesque violence. Now their steampunk epic reaches its conclusion in the internet age, with its heroes divided: Allan Quatermain is a homeless heroin addict, Mina Murray is locked in a correctional facility and Orlando has been driven to massacre innocents. But the apocalypse is coming and the league reforms to save the world from a boy-wizard antichrist. Moore isn't just concerned with physical enemies this episode is also an elegy for "England's mythic dreamtime", which is battered, empty and propped up by nostalgia ("this whole environment seems artificial," says Murray, "as if it's been created out of reassuring imagery from the 1940s"). Century: 2009's neat references are splendid fun, and this is a clever, passionate and pleasingly open-ended finale to a fine series.