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Whistle Stopper - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
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List Price: $29.99
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Manufacturer: Wildstorm
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401203061
ISBN: 140120306X
Label: Wildstorm
Manufacturer: Wildstorm
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2007-11-16
Publisher: Wildstorm
Release Date: 2007-11-13
Studio: Wildstorm
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Summary: Is Billy Bunter really Big Brother
Comment: Even if you haven't read the 101 novels, plays and pulp magazines referenced in this thrilling roller coaster action adventure, you'll still love it. It's high speed chase through 1950's England climaxing at the 3D top of the world, punctuated by extracts from the fabled Black Dossier - The book about all the previous Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Is that James Bond? Is that Emma Peel? Has Billy Bunter grown up and become George Orwells Big Brother? You Decide.
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Summary: LXG: black dossier
Comment: The random extracts from "The Black dossier" and 3D pages make this well worth reading. However the central plot is a little weak, and is just an excuse to fit in many pop-culture references. I was hoping for more swashbuckling adventures in the style of the other LXG graphic novels.
That said Alan Moore is an amazing writer and i don't know of any other writer who could handle the different styles of prose used in this collection.
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Summary: good, but it's not what you expect
Comment: I have read it and re - read it, and I think it's good, really, and Moore put a great effort to make his world even richer of allusions, quotations and homages to the mid twentieth century literature, with a great framework taken from a "post - Orwellian" society. the prose experiment is also good even if it has some part well constructed and other a bit repetitive. so if you love Moore works and the League, you've read Nevins commentary and you are amused by the game of quotations, puns and allusions hidden in the text, buy it, it's probably written precisely for you, but if you won't, it's not half as good as the other league volumes and the author tends to be a little too much enthralled by his own creation and in some points the "Black dossier" is a bit self referential.
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Summary: Terrible. What has Alan done to the franchise?
Comment: Although the other negative reviews capture the problems with this book, I wanted to add my voice to the chorus and attempt to save someone some money.
If you are a fan of the rest of the series, do not buy this book. I agree with the comments that it was "self-indulgent" and a "mess." It is a ridiculous addition to the series, which perhaps should be sub-titled: "A paycheck for nothing." I truly wonder if this book was the result of a contract dispute between Alan Moore and the publishing company.
The end of the book is indeed incomprehensible, and if there is meaning in it, beyond a slapdash nod to the abundance of human imagination, which feels forced and contrived, it is beyond me. I believe that Alan Moore is a genius, due to his work in Watchmen, but this was a disappointment that dips as low as that work reaches high. Atrocious.
I will be selling my copy, for whatever I can get for it, and thereafter, pretending it was not written.
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Summary: Wonderful art wrapping a dark but unappealing story
Comment: All the elements are there but for some reason the souffle didn't rise. This book will be forgotten. All the bling extras of Moore books - such as additional cover pages and text short stories -- go from side shows to main event, to the book's detriment, rising up like story assassins to smite this tome into a coma. In short, it was boring.
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Editorial Reviews:
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England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted...some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers. Answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters, a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are Hell-bent on retrieving the lost manuscript... and ending the League once and for all.
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