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Over the course of its three previous volumes, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" has evolved from a clever adventure yarn starring some of the most notorious characters in literary history to nothing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 of an attempt to catalogue and unify every creative work in the literary canon. When "Century" was announced, it was only natural to wonder which direction the series would end up in. While it's certainly pulled back from the rampant text pieces that overtook "The Black Dossier," it's no longer a plot-driven adventure story either. It has become a rather bleak meditation on heroism. It seems fitting, though, as the story is evolving past the era of literature that was driven by pulp stories and into the one of "finer" literature. This particular installment is clearly inspired by the opera work of Bertolt Brecht, specifically "The Threepenny Opera," whose songs this book adapts liberally. Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain are now immortal, and joined in their league by fellow immortal Orlando, currently male; the thief Raffles; and the psychic Carnacki. They are tasked with thwarting an apocalypse which Carnacki has foreseen, involving the mystic cult led by Oliver Haddo. They blunder through their investigations, uncovering little of value and potentially cluing Haddo himself into what he might specifically need to bring about this foretold apocalypse. At the same time we are introduced to the dying Nemo's daughter, Janni who ends up with the name Jenny Diver. Unwilling to take on her father's mantle as Pirate Captain, she is summarily raped by vagrants in her new home among London's seediest docks. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910, naturally, is enough to change her mind, and the Nautilus is reborn in her fury; destroying most of the harborside. There is also a musical backdrop, illuminating Jenny's tragic journey and the mystery of a murderer among the slums. Kevin O'Neill's work continues to be spectacular in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 book. Capturing the grit and the detail both of the world and the undoubtedly hundreds of characters inhabiting the backgrounds, just waiting for Jess Nevins to expose them in his annotations. One thing O'Neill rarely gets enough credit for, though, is his panel-to-panel storytelling. The is one sequence in particular, where the mysterious Norton, seemingly the spirit of London itself, travels through the ages to meet Mina. History literally moves around him as he remains in the same spot over the course of two pages. It's a remarkable sequence. This is, of course, only the first volume of the three part series, so this could all be stage setting for a century-wide The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 adventure. But even if it isn't, I'm perfectly satisfied with this evolution The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 the book. Much like the subtext throughout the book implies, the heroism found in old adventure stories is outdated, ill suited for a world of complexity. Any attempts at that kind of problem solving end up slaughtering drunks or tipping off psychopaths. It's a compelling allegory for the winding path of Western creativity, and one that wasn't quite perceivable in the book until now. This carries over to the book's back story, a prose tale of Mina's trip to the moon on The Rose Of Nowhere introduced in the psychedelic conclusion of "The Black Dossier". Allan and Orlando have abandoned her to take their minds off the dire fate of immortality through blasphemous trysts in Paris. The exhaustion of the characters is palpable, and vividly illustrated in a moment where the frozen corpse of James Moriarity, last seen way back in "Volume One" and still clutching his cavorite, floats past the space-bound ship. That world is long dead and frozen; and Mina and Allan are stuck forver drifting away from it, towards limitless and constantly evolving strangeness. By Benjamin Birdie May 21, Share Share Tweet Email 0. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: | CBR

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Kevin O'Neill Illustrator. Michele The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 Translator. The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is a page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three page chapters — each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes — this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic con The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is a page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three page chapters — each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes — this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own, current, twenty-first century. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published October by Bao publishing first published More Details Original Title. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 3. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemenplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. 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, and 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 also really piss people off, and there's no question that Volume III lacks not just the accessibility, 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 itself up against an enemy who has grand ambitions that involve shaping the 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 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 sobriquet himself to critique the novel. Her increasingly odd The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 unreliable contacts make the whole thing seem pretty fucking 'unlikely', but that's a 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 place 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 one 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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' The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910, 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 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 madman w Okay time to try and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 my thoughts and put them to type - DEEP BREATH - here we go and for anyone The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 for 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 who 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 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 the 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 running the show from behind closed doors. Here, Haddo The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 seen practicing Serial Possession, which Moore would later return to in his terrifying "Providence" series. Moore has a smart idea The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 watch Moore wrestle The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 on the reader knowing the references, but it can be seen as rewarding a reread. Annotations to League Volume III Chapter One, a

While the first two volumes of the series were published in a more conventional six-issue magazine format as with typical comics, Century consists The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 three page graphic novels, published inand respectively, and a collected edition was released in July The central plot resolves around Mina MurrayAllan Quatermain and Orlando trying to prevent the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 and destroys every building on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 Mankind 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 of 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 finds 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 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 secret to immortality if she gives her 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 a 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 by the real world's. Mina says the reverse is also possible. Mina and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 of 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 escort 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 patient 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 Mina's 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 which 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 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 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 Start a Wiki. Categories :. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki.