Ah, you want dark ... this is dark. Well within the spirit of the Lovecraftian tradition and an added dash of American FBI TV drama with serial killer characteristics. Alan Moore even gets in a bit of Kenneth Grant on the side.However, since many of you in America have more of a problem with sex ...
Like the Holy Trilogy, everything starts wrong, the characters already in pieces, and gets wronger. Immortality has fully taken its toll, the groups mission well and truly abandoned as the individuals become barely able to function, let alone save the universe.As always period details abound, and...
This graphic novel is the latest in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen books by Alan Moore. I wasn't as fond of this one as the earlier books. It features Capt Nemo's daughter, trying to live up to Nemo's reputation and visiting the Antarctic to follow a previous Nemo voyage. All in all, I thi...
I could tell there was a lot of things I wasn't getting when I read this book - like who any of these people are, and why should we care, etc. Reading the reviews afterwards, I guess this is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen spin-off or something? There was nothing in the book to suggest this...
Malcolm McLaren inspired this (a more accurate credit than calling him a collaborator) and the premise seems constructed to provide a setting for the lyrics to his single "Deep in Vogue" from 1988. Alan Moore has crafted a futuristic Beauty and the Beast that scratches at issues ranging from gend...
When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication o...
Christmas, her birthday celebrations and those of her much younger sister put family pressure on Shelley to delay. She spent the summer in Melbourne thinking it might be her last as a single woman. Now she was due to spend a fortnight in London, seeing the sights with Alec. Most of her friends we...