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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

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07:51 / 06.02.07

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your email. Unfortunately, the production of The Black Dossier has been delayed somewhat. As soon as we have firm details on its release, we will announce it via our website and through our booksezine, which you can subscribe to by sending an email to booksezine@titanemail.com with the subject header ‘subscribe’.

Best,
Reader Feedback

From Titan books, no less. Looks like we'll be waiting some time for our next dose of LOEG.

Begin the unsexy dance...

12:51 / 06.02.07

A shame it's not out yet, but hardly that surprising given Amazon's track record for telling the truth wrt release dates. It's a bit like saying "my mate Dave who's a bit mental says the queen is a lizard", and quoting Dave as gospel truth, innit?

Believe Amazon not!

12:59 / 06.02.07

I didn't, hence the email

13:05 / 06.02.07

Did you get that e-mail yourself Boboss? That's some above and beyond service to the community right there, mate! Saves us bugging our comics-dealers anyway...

13:07 / 06.02.07

Yep, did it for meself, tho'. Selfish bastard that I am.

Didn't want to get my hopes up and have them dashed come the 23rd.

12:51 / 26.02.07

An all you eat buffet apparently!

I haven't actually read all the details. I want some surprises.

The Natural Way

14:52 / 26.02.07

That interview makes me very happy. I'm so pleased the Dossier's still happening.

15:01 / 26.02.07

note to self: do not cycle into town to go to GOSH comics on the strength of yet another alleged certain release date for alan moore material.

sorry if my earlier post got anyones hopes up.

Phex: Dorset Doom

15:30 / 26.02.07

Note to self: Order Black Dossier on Amazon. That way it'll just turn up one day and one of my housemates will ask 'What's that' and I'll say 'The Black Dossier'. If housemate says 'Oh, I don't follow hip-hop' kill housemate, self.

The Natural Way

17:07 / 26.02.07

Yes, but the problem with ordering it on a
Amazon is that they've got about 4 versions listed with different release dates, including one that's allegecly already used. How on Earth they're selling second-hand copies of something that has yet to be released is beyond me.

Stupid bloody website.

17:24 / 26.02.07

We must stay strong and wait for certainty!

18:14 / 26.02.07

halloween i reckon.

20:39 / 26.02.07

Promo posters are turning up in comic shops but I think they were printed on the expectation of a comic rather than a certainty.

20:49 / 26.02.07

We must stay strong and wait for certainty!

22:05 / 26.02.07

Am I the only person deeply frightened that Alan Moore does Elvis impersonations?

01:53 / 27.02.07

I haven't actually read all the details. I want some surprises.

Yeah... I'm going to need Jess Nevins.

03:38 / 27.02.07

Well, Alan Moore is Elvis, don't you know? Really.

Garth Ennis is Van Morrison.

And Morrison is the Kinks. All four of them and later members.

16:59 / 27.02.07

Alan Moore singing Elvis. What more could anyone want? The whole thing sounds divine. Go Moore!

The Timaximus, The!

01:08 / 28.02.07

No, no, no. Milligan is the Kinks.

05:00 / 28.02.07

You're right. Clearly (Grant) Morrison is (Jim) Morrison.

Milligan's definitely The Kinks.

Which is going to flavor my reading of 'Black Dossier' regardless. Especially if there's some guest-vocals on that record.

11:32 / 28.02.07

Here's a very recent interview with our Hairy Godfather.

Ready for my close-up

Scroll down to January 25. It adds up to 1 1/2 hrs of meditations on his career, comics in general and his League of Gentlemen stuff in particular. It's a week or so since I listened to it, but there is a bit on the extras available with the Black Dossier. It might replicate some of the information in the 'All-You-can-eat' article linked to above, but the mordant wit is literally from the horses mouth (or would be if Alan was a horse)

The stand-out line for me was

"Ah, Rob Liefield! Now there's a name to conjure with."

12:17 / 28.02.07

Coincidentally I just listened to that.

14:26 / 28.02.07

Quite strange how obscure the interview is, tucked away on a corner of the net like that. It seems to be policy with him to give long interviews to quite low-circulation ventures. No doubt he's 'once bitten twice' shy as far as big corporations go.

Then again if its on the net, it'll find the right people sooner or later through magical serendipity.

He does have quite a wonderful interview manner though. He doesn't seem very gaurded or defensive about anything. Perhaps that comes from being like my Dad teh farmer -- Out, standing in his own field.

15:42 / 28.02.07

Interesting stuff about the 2008-set part of volume 3, and how it's apparently going to be 'horrible' to write because of the lack of decent contemporary fiction to draw on, copyright issues aside. I suppose as far as the League itself is concerned it'll be made up of older characters, (Jerry Cornelius for definite, plus a slightly doddering, sadistic ex-superspy,) but what's he going to use to fill in the background? A thinly-veiled version of Hogwarts presumably, but beyond that, Inspector Morse's Oxford? Albert Square? Unless he's going to bring in non-fictional characters, which would presumably be breaking the main rule of the series, I can imagining him struggling a bit, what with all the most interesting grotesques being on the news these days.

15:47 / 28.02.07

Hannibal Lecter, Jack Bauer perpetually awake for six weeks straight, Inspector Gadget, He-Man, Thundercats, Dracula 2000, Ghostbusters, The Bride, Agent Lee.

Or are we talking non-funny books/proper serious-head adult books only? Which seems a bit silly, honestly.

17:24 / 28.02.07

Wasn't there a thread some time ago were "we" listed our respective 20th+ century LoEG teams. I seem to recall Hanibal Lector feasting on Klingon brains at one point.

19:36 / 28.02.07

Apparently it's going to be set in London, 2008, so not so sure about the American characters.

Otherwise though, your morbid set of suggestions seems valid, Triplets; Kevin O'Neill's take on a past-his-best, anti-terrorist Inspector Gadget in particular would be great, I think. 'Oh my God, he's lost control of his metal ... thing, again! And he's got on the tube ... Who the f***'s going to carry the can for it this time? Not me!' and so on.

It does seem like a slightly debased landscape though - remove the official veneer from the likes of He-Man, and probe under the depths, and there'd be nothing but badness, I'd guess. In a way that's arguably not true of say, Sherlock Holmes. Or Count Dracula.

I can picture what Moore might like to do with the Teletubbies, for example, but it won't be pretty.

23:26 / 28.02.07

Yes, Americans never come to London in 2008. How silly of me. I suppose we should just call the U.S. and tell them 2012 is off and not just because of the apocalypse.

And I was just to about to suggest an aged bionic man, living far past him time (being a Cybernetic Test Pilot of 68 still looking 40, and a man out of his own time).

Heyho! However, yes, Gadget's gadget terrorising London does seem too big to pass up. "No no, Gadget cock!".

The Timaximus, The!

00:38 / 01.03.07

I remember an older interview, maybe from when vol. 2 was still coming out, where Moore observed that there's plenty of old, public domain fiction that was set in the (then) far future of 2000-ish.

01:15 / 01.03.07

Well to be fair, unless anyone's prepared to believe that underneath this benign 'Miss Marple' on-line mask there lurk the true face of a bearded master of the occult and noted literary artiste, it was Alan who was on about the various possible difficulties involved, and not me.

10:20 / 01.03.07

Albert Square?

Weren't the ancestors of the EastEnders mob seen briefly as latchkey Faginites in the first series?

Fuck me, I posted on Barbelith. Need to go for a lie down.

13:59 / 01.03.07

been a while, eh, Sax?

14:36 / 01.03.07

But we love 'im all the same!

The Natural Way

12:05 / 23.03.07

This isn't directly related o the Black Dossier, BTW, but it occured to me while reading the Alamanac the other day that the League actually live in Alan Moore's theoretical Ideaspace. Someone with the time and inclination can outline what this is for those that aren't familiar with the bearded-one's interviews, but, for those that know what I'm talking about, isn't it obvious? I mean, Mina and co. they inhabit a realm where all of our fictions are real and where there are 'soft places', as Grant might describe them - places that are there only occassionaly or when you're looking for them, etc. A landscape that, on it's outer fringes, is governed by expectation and desire as opposed to solid geography. The league live on the doorstep of Ideaspace and during their adventures skirt the edges of a broader reality that, in the case of Wonderland, etc., obeys a disorientatingly non-causal, dreamlike, Lynchian logic(s) that has far more in common with the toings and froings of our imaginations than with the solid, everyday world. And this is why, and I quote, Volume 3 will act as 'unified field theory for fiction', because it's in this arc that the real cosmological underpinnings of the world will be revealed.

14:00 / 23.03.07

Very good.

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