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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: v. 2 | 
| Authors: Alan Moore, Kevin O'neill
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1826
Media: Paperback
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1840238488
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781840238488
ASIN: 1840238488
Publication Date: October 22, 2004
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 When does subversive genius become bad taste. September 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think that in his review the Kinniburgh Kid got it right. While there are times that this is very clever, even in a moral sense, there are moments when it goes over the line from subversive genius to bad taste. It has a very angry feel that the authors wanted this to be the end of the League and that they want to see how far they can push the story.
Towards the end there is a definite feeling that they are being pushed reluctantly into writing a sequel and that they want to make sure they don't have to do anymore!
For me the funniest things are the creatures of Dr Moreau which are quite brilliant and worth three stars on their own. I will never look at Rupert or The Wind in the Willows in quite the same way again.
There is one clear mistake in the plot. Bond tells the League that they have raised Tower Bridge and that London Bridge is the only crossing of the river left but in the picture of the aliens at London Bridge, Tower Bridge is still standing in the background!
Fun. But no classic like the first May 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
With the first League book you could actually picture writer Alan Moore scribbling the tale out with a look of joyous glee on his face as he wrote. And because of that the first League is and always will be a classic. You don't get that sense of joyous glee with League volume two. It reads more like Moore is doing the obligitory sequel, with a relationship between Quartermaine and Mina that seemed contrived, and some of the literary characters were hard to place this time around(John Carter of mars? Etc, etc). Making League volume two no less fun, but much less classic.
 Collision of comic worlds April 30, 2008
I have to say that I was of the opinion that this was more of the same as the first volume (which I enjoyed) but nothing special (and rather a lot of pages devoted to rumpy-pumpy). Then I got to the section where Quatermain and Mina meet Moreau's creatures and I found turning the page a real, actual shock - one of those occasions where the brain has to turn itself through several revolutions in order to get the pieces to fit, eventually laughing out loud. I won't say more than that as it would spoil it for others, but I thought it a brilliant bit of invention.
 Moore on top of his game July 25, 2007
The second comic allows the characters to develop. It's just as entertaining and imaginative as the first with some wonderful situations. I felt empty when it ended (I guess it was Moore's intention). The book at the end is hard to digest though.
Dark Second Act, or Daft Sequel Axed? May 14, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I loved the idea, the artwork and the dialogue of the first book. I also love H.G.Wells' War of the Worlds so expectations were high. Too high as it transpired.
There probably is a great story to be told around the theme of War of the Worlds in much the same way there are endless Star Wars stories woven around the six films, but my overriding impression with this second League book is that Moore was so angry with the movie of the first one that he wanted to write an unfilmable sequel. He succeeded.
Still, there's enough here to keep me keen to read the next instalment. Maybe with lower expectations it will be more satisfying.
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