The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier

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Customer Reviews:

Wonderful art wrapping a dark but unappealing story [Posted on 2008-05-27]
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.

Terrible. What has Alan done to the franchise? [Posted on 2008-05-27]
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.

good, but it's not what you expect [Posted on 2008-05-29]
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.

LXG: black dossier [Posted on 2008-06-01]
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.

Is Billy Bunter really Big Brother [Posted on 2008-07-05]
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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