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The third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a page epic spanning almost a hundred years and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III 'Century'. Divided into three page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, it takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in the present, twenty-first, century. The characters and themes thread through all three episodes, in which the characters of Mina HarkerAllan Quatermain and Orlando feature prominently, alongside W. The story begins intwelve years after the first and second volumes. On Lincoln Islandthe dying Captain Nemo asks his estranged teenage daughter, Janni Dakkar, to become the new captain of the Nautilus after his death, but she refuses and leaves his side. She stows away on a passing ship, which sails to London, and taking the name " Jenny Diver " she gets a job at a wharf-side hotel. Jack MacHeath — portrayed as a combination of The Threepenny Opera protagonist MacHeath and real-life serial killer Jack the Ripper — arrives in London on the same ship and murders a prostitute. Carnacki has frequent visions of an upcoming disaster where many people will die, and a cult plotting the creation of a " Moonchild " destined to initiate Armageddon. He recognises one of the men in his visions as paranormal detective Simon Iffand the League go to a gentlemen's club Carnacki and Iff regularly attend to learn more about him. One of the club's members, Zanonireveals Iff was an associate of Oliver Haddoan occultist who died in but whose cult remains active. Mina and Allan later discuss League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III situation with Mycroft Holmesthe head of British Intelligence, who advises them to investigate the Haddo cult's headquarters near King's Cross railway station and suggests MacHeath whom British Intelligence knows is Jack the Ripper will be responsible for the deaths Carnacki foresaw. At Kings Cross, Mina and Raffles meet time traveller Andrew Nortonbut he offers little help and speaks almost entirely in riddles referencing events in the far future, such as the July 7 Bombings and the Iraq War. As he disappears to another time, Norton promises Mina they will meet again in Meanwhile, Orlando, Allan and Carnacki break into the Haddo cult's headquarters, but are caught by the leader Karswell Trelawney. When they confront the cult about their plans, Trelawney claims what Carnacki has been seeing is either inaccurate or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III future event yet to happen, but Carnacki inadvertently gives them a crucial piece of information by mentioning the name of a woman who has yet to join the cult. Elsewhere, Janni is mistreated by the staff and guests of the hotel, but when Ishmael appears with news of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III death, she still refuses to join the Nautilus crew and demands he leave. That evening, Janni is raped by a group of drunk men, and is later aided to her room by Suky Tawdry another character from The Threepenny Opera. Distraught and eager for revenge, she decides to fulfil Nemo's dying wishes and fires a flare to summon the Nautiluswhich is docked nearby. The next day, MacHeath is brought to the gallows to be hanged without trial, as Mycroft is worried a trial might reveal the involvement of the 14th Earl of Gurney League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III protagonist of the play The Ruling Class in the original Ripper murders and cause a scandal. As MacHeath sings his final plea from the gallows, the Nautilus now painted black and with Nemo's skull nailed to the forecastle emerges from the Thames and destroys every building on the waterfront. The crew descend to loot and murder while Janni — accepting the role of captain — orders them to kill the men who raped her. Mycroft receives news of the Nautilus attacking the London docks, as well as a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III from the Earl of Gurney confessing to all the Ripper crimes, so he orders for MacHeath to be freed without charge and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III the League to the docks. When they arrive, Orlando fends off the pirates with Excaliburand amidst the chaos Mina runs into Janni, who recognises her from her previous visit to Lincoln Island in As the Nautilus departs, Janni invites Mina to join the crew should she ever decide to forsake government work. Mina berates the League for their reckless actions, and as they leave the ruined docks, MacHeath and Suky sing an altered version of What Keeps Mankind Alive? Mina, Orlando and Allan no longer work for the British Government and have spent the years since the events of The Black Dossier away from Britain, but the sorcerer Prospero summons them back League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III investigate Basil's murder. The Nautilus drops the League off at the White Cliffs of Doverand returning League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III London they settle into their new base underneath a nightclub which Mina had planned to use as the headquarters for a superhero team she tried to assemble in They speculate that the Haddo cult may be trying to create the Antichristfollowing a previous failed attempt to do so in New York two years before. That night, Mina has a nightmare in which she is haunted by Haddo's spirit, leaving her disturbed and terrified. Meanwhile, mob leader Vince Dakin hires Jack Carter to search for Basil's killer as well, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III Carter's investigations lead him to an occult bookshop owned by Kosmo Gallionthe current leader of the Haddo cult. When Norton does appear, he continues to speak almost exclusively in cryptic riddles referencing works of fiction and events in the future, but he does reveal Haddo's spirit League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III been transferring into other bodies for years, including Karswell Trelawney and Kosmo Gallion, and directs the League's investigation towards a nightclub called the Flying Cylinder. Before leaving, Norton warns that by the time they meet again inthe League will be "too late" to stop Haddo. Elsewhere, Gallion discusses the Haddo cult with Purple Orchestra's lead singer Ternerand promises him he will become Haddo's new host body. At the Flying Cylinder, Mina meets and questions Gallion's partner Julia, who takes her back to her flat. They have sex, and Julia gives Mina a " tadukic acid diethylamide" pill. Purple Orchestra hold a concert at Hyde Park in honour League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III Basil which parallels the real-world death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones and the subsequent tribute concertin which Terner reads poetry and sings a song based on Sympathy for the Devil. From Julia's information, Mina learns that Haddo's spirit plans to transfer from Gallion to Terner at the concert, and she, Orlando and Allan go to Hyde Park to stop the ritual. However, once they arrive she realises the actual ritual is occurring at Gallion's bookshop. While Allan and Orlando race to the shop, Mina stays at the concert and takes the tadukic acid pill, which gives her surreal hallucinations. Her spirit leaves her body and fights Haddo on the astral planebut he overpowers her and reveals the League's interference will not affect the planned birth of the Antichrist. At the bookshop, Jack Carter kills Gallion before the ritual can be completed. With his plan gone awry, Haddo is forced to enter the body of a man named Tom who is heavily implied to be a younger Voldemort. Purple Orchestra release a flock of bats into the crowd, and as Mina returns to her body she is driven insane by a hallucination of the bats chanting " Remember me? Eight years later, inAllan and the female Orlando have still not reunited with Mina, and sit sulking in a bar. Allan has relapsed into drug abuse, and growing bored of his self-pity Orlando leaves him, planning to join the army once her gender changes again. Inthe male Orlando is serving in the British Army and stationed in Q'mar. He receives a medal after apparently surviving a massacre, but he privately confesses to a fellow immortal soldier — Colonel Cuckoo — that he actually committed the massacre himself in a moment of violent madness. Returning home to London, which has become a dystopia rife with poverty and depression, Orlando's gender switches to female. Prospero — outraged by the League's continuous failure to stop Oliver Haddo — appears and reveals the Antichrist has already been born, therefore the League only have a limited time to prevent Armageddon. In desperation, Orlando approaches the elderly Emma Nightthe current head of MI5and offers her the secret to immortality in exchange for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III finding Mina. After speaking with Night she is briefly reunited with Allan, who has become a homeless drug addict, but he panics and flees before she can talk to him. Mina is staying in a psychiatric hospital run by the descendants of Rosa Cootewhere she is medicated on strong sedatives. Orlando retrieves her from the hospital and takes her off the drugs, and as Mina's memories return she remembers they are due another meeting with Andrew Norton. They try to convince Allan to help them, but he refuses and claims he no longer wants to live a heroic life. He explains the train is operated magically and its track leads to the school the Antichrist came from, but he himself is unable to join them. The train travels across Britain's underlying dream realm and stops at the ruins of a school for wizards. As Mina and Orlando search the ruins, flashbacks show the events leading up to the school's destruction. As a baby, the Antichrist who is heavily implied to be Harry Potter but never referred to by name was scarred with the mark of the beast on his forehead, and throughout the child's adolescence Oliver Haddo tried to manipulate him into accepting his destiny by staging a series of adventures set in the school and portraying a nemesis for him to fight. However, the revelation of his true destiny drove the Antichrist insane and he went on a destructive rampage, destroying League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III school and killing all the staff and pupils. When Mina and Orlando return to London, Prospero urges them to confront the Antichrist and use Excalibur to signal for reinforcements. Meanwhile, Allan buys a gun and prepares to commit suicide, but ultimately decides not to. The Antichrist is hiding in an invisible housewhere he angrily rants at Haddo's severed head, which is still alive. When Mina and Orlando arrive to confront him, he emerges as a giant covered in eyes and begins to trigger the end of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III. As Orlando battles him, Excalibur reacts by summoning a light in the sky, which is seen by everyone in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III. Out at sea, arch-terrorist Jack Nemo the great-grandson of the original Captain Nemo sees the light, and deciding to abandon his terrorist actions in Pakistan, he orders his crew to return to Lincoln Island, where a new Nautilus is being constructed. Back in London, Allan arrives to help Mina and Orlando, shooting the Antichrist with a futuristic weapon. However, the Antichrist is unaffected by the blast and shoots a bolt of magical lightning from his penis, which kills Allan. An enigmatic woman resembling Mary Poppins descends from the sky and destroys the Antichrist by transforming him into a chalk drawing on the road, which washes away in the rain. Haddo's head states Armageddon will still happen, but now Mina is destined to initiate it. However, before he can explain further the woman takes him and ascends back into the sky. Emma Night arrives, accompanied by two women who have left MI5, as she has now. They escort Mina and Orlando to Africa, where Allan's body is buried in an existing grave dating back to when he originally faked his death in As they depart for the Fire of Youth, Night inquires how an immortal is able to cope with eternal life, and Mina simply tells her one has to keep on living. Each chapter of Century is accompanied by an episode of a text-story entitled Minions of the Moonwritten in the style of a s " new wave " science fiction story. It details how Orlando League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III a young woman named "Bio" first became immortal by bathing in the Fire of Youth, and the time she spent with a tribe of primitive immortals who live around the fire. One immortal showed her the remains of a mysterious black object, a monolith from A Space Odyssey. Mina Murray is left disturbed by her earlier encounter with Janni Dakkar, and is fearful of how her own immortality will affect her in years to come. Allan Quatermain pacifies her with a romantic gesture, promising to give her the "Moon above Soho ". Requiem for a Space-Wizard begins League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III main story, and shows superhero Captain Universe giving his ally "Vull the Invisible" a tour of his newly acquired headquarters. All of the while he privately speculates what sort of person Vull is beneath his invisibility, but when Vull leaves the headquarters he removes his invisibility helmet, revealing himself to be Mina in disguise. They travel to the Moon in an airship called the Rose of Nowhereand during the journey Mina and the Galley-Wag see the corpse of Professor Moriartystill clutching the Cavorite engine from the first volume and frozen in a block of ice in orbit around Earth. The first segment, Escape from Nowhereis set in outer space inand shows the Galley-Wag escaping from a spaceship run by pink-skinned alienswhere he was kept as a slave for many years. Arriving on the Moon's surface, Mina finds several strange objects from different time periods, including an Anglo-Saxon crown and an Elizabethan doll, and suspects they may have landed on the "Limbus of the Moon", where lost things accumulate. He is nursed back to health in Toyland a settlement inhabited by sentient, toy-like automatonsand is accepted into their community. Under cover of invisibility, Mina spies on an American Lunar base, where the astronauts speculate and argue about the origins of a colony of giant ants which have been attacking them. In Skulls and Amazonsthe Galley-Wag pilots the Rose of Nowhere across the Moon's surface, observing the behaviour of the giant ants and finding a vast field of human skulls. They discover a citadel populated by naked warrior women called Myrmidons, who explain that a plague starting in killed their entire male population, and the skulls are of their deceased. To keep their race alive, the women harvest sperm cells from the frozen body of a human man, whom Mina recognises as Professor Selwyn Cavor. Wells ' The First Men in the Moon. Stranded on the Moon and confronted by several Selenites the giant ants from the previous chapterProfessor Cavor kills himself by stepping out of the Moon's atmosphere. The Selenites come to worship his frozen corpse as a deity. The remaining five segments are set in and conclude the main story. A Harsh Mistress reveals the war Mina and the Galley-Wag League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III sent to prevent began when the Myrmidons stole Cavor's body from the Selenites, and as they prepare for battle the Myrmidon leader Maza mounts a reptilian steed called a "Nak-Kar", and mentions the presence of a celestial being who observes everything the Myrmidons do. In Moonbeams, Home in a Jarthree astronauts in the American lunar base see the Myrmidon army riding Nak-Kars and charging into battle against the Selenites, but they decide not to report it to base command because they are growing cannabis inside the base and fear the repercussions of their secret being discovered. Hastily devising a plan to end the war, Mina threatens to kill Maza unless she follows her demands. In A Sea of CrisesMaza orders the Myrmidon army to cease their attack and announces they will return Cavor to the Selenites, because an alternative sperm source has been found. The story concludes with The Sins of the Fatherin which the Myrmidons extract intact sperm cells from Moriarty and successfully fertilise donated egg cells. Maza thanks the crew for their help in saving her race and rewards them with a banquet, but as they celebrate Mina privately regrets this solution and dreads the possible future repercussions. Reception to Century has been mixed to positive. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century - Wikipedia

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The Third Volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is closer to The Black Dossier than Volumes 1 and 2, which means it's a polarizing work that is going to frustrate most people, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III please a dwindling number of hardcore Moore fans. Each of the three chapters, andintroduce period specific references that become increasingly arcane, as if 'Century' was conceived as a hyper-contextual scavenger hunt, sending readers scurrying across Wikipedia pages to collect all the obscure literary clues and occult Easter eggs. There's little chance of picking up every detail Moore and O'Neill leave taped under table-tops and stuffed inside tree-hollows, but following the trail beyond the book can lead in fascinating directions. It League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III also really piss people off, and there's no question that Volume III lacks not just the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III, but the quick pace and pure entertainment of previous instalments. It's a complex work I liked it, in some ways Anytime a book makes me nostalgic for it's earlier instalments, while I'm reading it It's disjointed and off-putting, and Moore knows that increasing referential density doesn't make up for a less entertaining story, but he obviously doesn't give a shit. I'll suggest that readers who disliked The Black Dossier will probably hate Volume 3. As for the plot Their last mission was in a Cold War Britain of the late 's, where Mina Murray and the rejuvenated Allan Quatermain risked their apparently endless lives to steal the ultra-classified documents detailing the secret history of the League. As enemies of the literally Orwellian state, they were pursued by fictional weapons of statecraft that included a humorously inept young spy named 'Jimmy' Bond. Volume three takes us back almost 50 years, introducing a League that has replaced it's dead and retired veterans with the immortal hermaphrodite Orlando, the occultist Thomas Carnacki, and 'gentleman thief' A. It also introduces the teenaged daughter of Captain Nemo, Janni, who abandons her ailing father and her birthright of piracy and slaughter, seeking a new life for herself in England. The League, meanwhile, finds itself up against an enemy who has grand ambitions that involve shaping League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III future of humanity to fit his own desires. With a stratagem that transcends death and time, Mina Murray is the only person capable of following and defeating Oliver Haddo a character taken from 'The Magician' by W. Somerset Maugham, based on the infamous 'Great Beast' and co-founder of The Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley; Crowley later assumed the sobriquet himself to critique the novel. Her increasingly odd and unreliable contacts make the whole thing seem pretty fucking 'unlikely', but that's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III close relative of 'extraordinary', I suppose. Her one 'informant', for example, is a time traveller whose tether has been cut, leaving him to occupy a single League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III in London as time flips forward and back, like a TV skipping through channels every few seconds, making him like the human equivalent of the real estate in Richard McGuire's 'Here'. His insane, hypercryptic jabbering is League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III of her not-so-impressive 'weapons' in a struggle that spans the course of the 20th Century. For completists: the book is well-designed, with thick, semi-gloss paper of the highest quality and sturdy, cloth-bound covers -- Top Shelf didn't cut corners by using the cheap, acidic paper and stamped particle-board that DC do quite regularly my copy of The Black Dossier hardcover has already yellowed, while older books printed on better stock remain arctic white. Even the 'glossy' paper DC uses is still thin, pulpy, acidic trash that puts an expiry date on purchases. They do use premium paper on Absolute editions and the more expensive hardcovers, however. So even if you don't love the course Moore has been charting the last few years, at the very least you end up with a well-produced book. It includes all the prose stories and ads that came with the softcovers, and features painted endpapers by O'Neill. See, I don't even know what to say about this Moore lets his hair and beard grow out, goes for the ultra-hirsute 'mad-hermit' look, while Morrison keeps his head and face gleaming like plastic, going for the 'alien-prophet' look. I think they love each other. View all 4 comments. What the fuck did I just read? Okay time to try and capture my thoughts and put them to type - DEEP BREATH - here we go and for anyone who has read this book you know what I mean This is the third omnibus edition of the adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - even though there is also the Black Dossier and technically the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III trilogy can also be considered part of of the story as well. Anyway this book - well as the cover says it follows the League as it tries to decipher and then stop the plans of a madman w Okay time to try and capture my thoughts and put them to type - DEEP BREATH - here we go and for anyone who has read this book you know what I mean This is the third omnibus edition of the adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - even though there is also the Black Dossier and technically the Nemo trilogy can also be considered part of of the story as well. Anyway this book - well as the cover says it follows the League as it tries to decipher and then stop the plans of a madman which unfold over the space of years. As usual I wont give anything away from the story but to say that you get the same artwork you would come to expect from the two previous editions. Not surprising I know considering it is the same man Alan Moore behind the controls League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III the series - although I am sure anyone who has followed a long running series before has seen style and artistry change along the way - which makes for a reassuring constant. A constant I feel is all the more important considering that even though the style and artistry do not change the changes brought about by the shift in storyline from one "age" to another is disconcerting in its own right, although this is obviously intentional since it is an integral part of the plot. I must at this point draw attention to the cameos and Britannia references dotted through all the storylines but more obvious in the later ages. Here you see Britannia almost as a physical entity and one that reflects the fortune of her country or is it the other way around. So for someone League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III grew up in the country and who has pretty much seen the way certain images and characters have become firmly embedded in my perception I love how they have been transplanted in to these stories making them something totally new and yet disturbingly different from Parker to Rupert Bear to Doctor Who. I get a distinct feeling I will need to read this book again just to see how many more I can spot and recognise. I read the first two volumes and The Black Dossier over a long period of time and so I get lost occasionally as I read this, but I had read all of these three chapters separately League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III liked them pretty well, but in this big beautiful volume you get a view of the twentieth century from three different year perspectives and it is really impressive and makes more sense together. I still don't love LoEG but this is my favorite trip through a part of the landscape, in part because it tried to do this I read the first two volumes and The Black Dossier over a long period of time and so I get lost occasionally as I read this, but I had read all of these three chapters separately and liked them pretty well, but in this big beautiful volume you get a view of the twentieth century from three different year perspectives and it is really impressive and makes more sense together. I still don't love LoEG but this is my favorite trip through a part of the landscape, in part because it tried to do this more cohesive story, so that encourages me to reread the other volumes. I realized this is just League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III collection of LXGand I've already suffered thru the first 2, and I briefly glanced at the third part Horror week be damned. View 2 comments. I held off on reading this for a long time, largely because of its reputation as "difficult" Moore, overly cynical and dense with obscure allusions. While it's true that the number of Easter eggs and in-jokes is even higher here than in past volumes of "League," you don't really have to get them all to appreciate the story, as each of the three chapters is based on one primary text. Somerset Maugham's "The Magician. The League is ineffective and out of place in modernity, and as the old Victorian order slips away, nobody knows who's in charge. The sequence in which Janni Dakkar aka Pirate Jenny exacts her brutal revenge on the London docks is probably the best-executed in the book. The new generation feels empowered by drugs and sexual freedom, but gangsters, cultists, and spies are really League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III the show from behind closed doors. Here, Haddo is seen practicing Serial Possession, which Moore would later return to in his terrifying "Providence" series. Moore has a smart idea here about how our heavily-commodified society makes culture feel like irrelevant product, but his singular focus on "Harry Potter" hampers that point. I'm sympathetic to Moore's critiques of the series, but he greatly overstates his case by making Harry Potter the literal Antichrist, effectively blaming a mediocre children's series for the apocalypse. That said, there's some lovely character interactions here, and it's interesting to watch Moore wrestle with his ambivalence towards genre, modernity and nostalgia. Even at his most frustrating, Moore gives you more to think about than basically anybody else in comics. I try to go into these books without any foreknowledge about the particular volume. In this case, o I try to go into these books without any foreknowledge about the particular volume. Additionally, when collected, all the text story portions are placed serially at the end, but they take place within the timeline of the comic portion. Luckily, while it made for a poor reading experience not to know this, Comic POW! While the first volume contained characters everyone could pretty quickly recognize, volume two began the process of getting a bit more esoteric. Of course, this depends on the reader knowing the references, but it can be seen as rewarding a reread. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century by Alan Moore

While the first two volumes of the series were published in a more conventional six-issue magazine format as with typical comics, Century consists of three page League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III novels, published inand respectively, and a collected edition was released in July League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III The central plot resolves around Mina MurrayAllan Quatermain and Orlando trying to prevent the arrival of an Antichrist over the course of a century. Intwelve years after the extraterrestrial invasion of England and the disbanding of the League of Extraordinary GentlemenCaptain Nemo lies on his deathbed in Lincoln Island. He asks his estranged daughter, Janni Dakkarto resume his name and calling after his death. Janni refuses and leaves her father's side. Spying a passing ship, she swims towards it and stows away upon it. The ship takes her to London where she takes up employment at a wharf side hotel under the name Jenny Diver. Arriving on the same ship as Janni is Jack MacHeath a. Jack the Ripperwho is a direct descendant of the 18th-century highwayman MacHeath a. Mack the Knifeand immediately takes to murdering prostitutes again, one of whom looks suspiciously like Louise Brooks. Meanwhile, the occult detective and second League member Thomas Carnacki has visions of bloodshed on the waterfront and of a secret cabal of magicians convening to plot the creation of a Moonchild destined to bring forth the end of the world. Mina believes these visions may be connected with the upcoming coronation of King George V. Intelligence chief Mycroft Holmes advises them to investigate both, and suggests that the bloodshed on the waterfront is the work of MacHeath, whom he believes to be Jack the Ripper. While investigating one of the men Carnacki saw in his vision, Orlando, Quatermain and Carnacki stumble upon the circle of magicians, who claim that what Carnacki saw either is wrong, or has not happened yet. Carnacki inadvertently gives the magicians a crucial piece of information that they need to create the Moonchild. He vanishes to another time, promising that he will meet Mina again in Janni is raped by the drunken patrons of her hotel, and is later aided to her room by Suky Tawdry. Janni fires a flare to summon the Nautilus —the "Black Raider"—which is docked nearby. The following day MacHeath is about to be hanged without trial as Mycroft is worried that a trial might bring to light the involvement of the 14th Earl of Gurney in the original Ripper murders. MacHeath sings his last plea from the gallows while the Nautilusnow painted black as per Nemo's orders, and with his skull nailed to the forecastle, emerges League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III destroys every building on the waterfront, save for Janni's hotel. The crew of the Nautilus descends upon the waterfront to loot, murder and rape while Janni, now the captain of the Nautilusorders that the hotel patrons be killed slowly. At the last moment, a message arrives from the Earl of Gurney confessing to all the Ripper crimes. MacHeath is released and the League head to the waterfront to try and push the pirates back. While the men fight, Mina comes face to face with Janni, who recognises her. Janni says her father had nothing but bad things to say about Mina, which renders her worthy of respect to Janni. She bids Mina farewell, inviting Mina to join her should Mina ever decide to forsake government work. When Mina asks her name, Janni says she is "no one". Inalmost sixty years after "What Keeps League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III Alive? Mina is coming to grips with the problems of immortality. The League's encounter with the mysterious Andrew Norton has numerous cryptic warnings that are difficult to discern. He also says that by the time they reunite in it will be too late. Meanwhile Jack Carter is hired by mob leader Vince Dakin to discover who murdered Basil who was one of his lovers as well. Carter's interrogations lead him to the cult of Gallion. Terner holds a concert at Hyde Park in honor of Basil which parallels the real-world death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones and subsequent Hyde Park tribute concert in which he reads poetry and sings a song which resembles Sympathy for the Devil. Mina, Orlando and Allan attempt to stop the ritual of the transfer from occurring but Mina realizes the actual ritual is occurring at Gallion's shop. Mina drops Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26, and meets Haddo on the astral plane. Haddo overpowers Mina, though he reveals that his possession League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III Terner will not effect his planned birth of the antichrist. Carter meanwhile kills Gallion. With his plan gone awry, he is forced to enter the body of Tom Riddle. When Mina comes down from her trip, she is driven mad by bats that remind her of Draculaand is taken away in an ambulance. Eight years later, inAllan and Orlando have still not reunited with Mina, who was their only link to the Blazing World. Now female and sporting a mohawk Orlando grows tired of Allan who has succumbed to his previous addictions to drugs even attempting to pawn Excalibur and leaves Allan, planning to join the Army once she is a man again. Opening to the disastrous war in Q'Mar Orlando, currently male, is about to receive a medal after apparently surviving a massacre. Before being sent home, he gloomily confesses to a fellow immortal soldier Corporal Cuckoo that he actually ran amok and committed the massacre himself in a sudden lapse of composure. Arriving in a dystopic, commercialized London, Orlando returns to the empty League headquarters and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III himself turning female again. She is then contacted by Prospero who angrily states that the antichrist has been born and must be stopped. In despair, Orlando goes to the secret intelligence headquarters in Vauxhall - ostensibly a Freemason venue - and asks to speak with M. Orlando promises to give Night the secret to immortality if she gives League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III information on where to find Mina. M promises to look into it. As Orlando goes home she runs into a homeless man who she recognises as Allan. Allan panics and flees. Mina, who was interned back inis hopelessly drugged and confused, but Orlando takes her home. Emerging from the antipsychotics daze, Mina remembers that the only one who will be able to find the antichrist is Norton. They also try to speak to Allan once more, but he is League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III heroin addict and rejects them. Mina and Orlando find Norton, who guides them to King's Cross which he identifies as a nexus of fiction. He takes them into a secret platform in the railway station, housing the ruins of a magical steam-train and the decaying remains of the victims of a horrific massacre. Norton states that the train will take them to the school the Antichrist came from, but he himself cannot go with them as he is "the Prisoner of London". The two pass a nightmarish journey into the magical dreamworld of Britain, eventually finding themselves in the burned-out ruins of an " Invisible College " devoted to teaching magic. As they investigate the ruins and discover the beheaded corpse of Haddo - the antichrist having taken the still-living head with him - Orlando and Murray contemplate that this magical world's devastation is reflected by the real world's. Mina says the reverse is also possible. Mina and Orlando return to London and speak to Prospero who orders them to confront the antichrist, and use Excalibur to signal for reinforcements. Mina and Orlando make love as they dreadfully await what is to happen next. Meanwhile Allan buys a gun and tries to commit suicide, but he hesitates. Mina and Orlando confront Potter who emerges from a concealed house in the form of a giant covered in eyeballs and struggling to remain remotely human, and begins to trigger the end of the world. The sword Excalibur reacts to this by bringing forth a light in the sky. The sight is overseen by all in the world and causes arch-terrorist Jack Nemo, the original captain 's latest descendent, to abandon his terrorist actions in Pakistan and return to a mysterious project at Lincoln Island. Allan arrives and blasts the antichrist with a futuristic weapon, but the monster is unfazed by this and kills Quatermain with magic lightning discharged from his penis. Mina hysterical by this loss accepts doom until out of the sky comes an enigmatic woman who destroys the antichrist, implying that she is a manifestation League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III God. As this is occurring, Haddo proclaims that Armageddon shall still happen as Murray is now destined to usher it. The Woman takes Haddo's head before Murray can find an answer to his words. As they mourn the death of Quatermain, Night arrives accompanied by three women who have all left MI6, as she has now. They promise to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III Mina and Orlando to Africa to bury the body of Allan Quatermain as Night seeks to become immortal. The women bury Allan Quatermain in an existing grave dating from the time he originally faked his death. When Night inquires how one is able to cope with immortality, Mina states that one has to keep on living. The story is presented as if written in Part One begins with an unnamed League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III at an unidentified point in time, it then elaborates on some details of how Orlando became immortal and references A Space Odyssey. Following this there is a section that continues directly from the main story. The next section features the start of The Story of O revealing the identity of O. The next section provides details of a superhero team that Mina was part of inwhose members include Golden Age British hero Captain Universe, who has recently defeated Fletchen Hank's Stardust the Super Wizard. The final section concerns League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III journey to the Moon with the Golliwogunder instructions from Prospero in the Blazing World, who fears that the Lunar War will force mankind's lunar residents to relocate to an area League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol. III the Blazing World "powers that be" do not wish them to reach - yet. While previous volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen consisted of six standard comic book issues, the three chapters of Volume III are bound as page paperback graphic novels, and the series has been collected into hardback form. This is correspondent with writer Alan Moore's belief that the decreasing sales of regular issues and the increasing sales of graphic novels makes the latter a more profitable and convenient format. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Categories :. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki.