The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century #3 2009 (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
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 the final acts deep reference to the most famous fantasy setting of the 2000's is both enjoyable in its own right as well as being a meta scale criticism of the source material. You can feel Mina and Lando channeling Moores ire, but also a little bit of respect.worth reading just for the last third alone. Reading this book out of order left me with a lot of questions, but LOTG usually has that effect on me.I understood most of the pop culture references this time, probably because Moore was no longer keeping them strictly literary. This issue had amusing moments, like some typically-cynical references to James Bond, Harry Potter and Mary Poppins, but the climactic "battle scene", built up over the entire series was an unsatisfying finale to an unsatisfying series.If Moore decides to continue with the series, I hope Kevin O Neill will continue to draw it, because at this point he's the only reason I read it.
What do You think about The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century #3 2009 (2012)?
After the let down of the last volume, I find this one has the old Alan Moore flame in it again.
—brad
Another Alan Moore book I enjoyed without having much sense of what was actually occurring.
—katkat03
Surreal, manic, fun, perverse. Loved the final moments. Alan Moore - what a guy.
—Selene
