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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

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Earlier than I thought

16:35 / 23.03.07

I've always (ie, just now) wondered about that piece of blank paper that Mina retrieved from the Bellman survivors.

To be honest, I just like writing sentences like the previous one.

This Sunday

19:49 / 23.03.07

Moore's personal model of ideaspace. Yes. But, with no sprung nipples or Tarzan and Savage pressing their immense genitals together to control the world, there's just something missing...

Oh, wait, Mina and our great white hunterman in the woods. Never mind.

I'm going to walk about repeating 'Interzone is a soft place' in my head until this thing (or Vol. 3) comes out and proves me wrong.

Didn't Moore himself refer to these Leage books as him psychic mapping, or something? All the fictions absorbed and stuck fast to his young(er) brain, manifest as rigid narrative in the now. Not like that, I mean, but something of his own wording, around the time of the mid-point to Vol. 1, to similar ends?

FinderWolf

20:09 / 14.06.07

Jamie Grant's posts about working on All-Star Superman made me think of the fact that somewhere, somehow, a man named Kevin O'Neill is working away on pages of the new LOEG books... and I will be an oh so happy lad when one of them comes out.

Janean Patience

06:48 / 07.08.07

The Black Dossier is likely to be unpublished in the UK and elsewhere by copyright issues, apparently. Oddly, it occurred to me that this could be a very likely reason for delays just this morning before I read Rich’s column. Messing with iconic characters that remain in copyright, even if they’re thinly disguised, didn’t work out too well for Lost Girls and could easily doom the Top Shelf LOEG series.

You begin to wonder if maybe Alan Moore doesn’t want, subconsciously, his projects to remain on hiatus forever. It would explain why he’s decided to drag LOEG from the safe ground of the 19th century into the copyrighted 20th. It would explain his persistence in working with Rob Liefield, and his creation of a provocative pornography. He misses the Miracleman days and thinks his best work is the forever delayed Big Numbers.

This Sunday

06:59 / 07.08.07

Maybe he just wants to do projects that can't be made into movies. At least, not yet, and maybe not until he's dead.

As long as he stops writing midwestern Americans in accents, I'll be happy to look the other way when he violates some of the older or more iconic copyrights/trademarks. I mean, everyone's got to do The Detective at least once, usually without even a change of address, and it's almost implausible to do a League for the first half of the twentieth century without utilizing a JB with a nice suit, martini in one hand, little old lady gun in the other.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:31 / 07.08.07

To clarify, The Black Dossier will still be published in the United States, so it looks like non-US readers will be heading to Amazon.com in October.

Spaniel

08:06 / 07.08.07

I sure will

Haus of Mystery

11:08 / 07.08.07

Fucking bollocks. My life is freewheeling past me and this cocking thing is still further than ever from my sweaty grasp.

I hate you Uncle Alan.

_Boboss

17:42 / 07.08.07

will brits definitely be able to get it from amazon.com? johnson says something about 'direct market only', so does that mean we'll have to order it through comic shops? or is amazon direct market too?

Mark Parsons

03:46 / 08.08.07

You Euros will have to buy the book in greasy brown paper wrapping tied with twine that's all waxy from the clammy, sweaty ears of virgin perverts.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:21 / 08.08.07

Well, I got 'Lost Girls' via Amazon.com so if the page is up there I can't see why I can't get this too. Direct Market is bookshops isn't it, which would include comic shops, B&N and Amazon.

lord nuneaton savage

08:53 / 08.08.07

I can only repeat what has been said above.

Fucking bollocking bollocks.

Janean Patience

10:19 / 08.08.07

Now confirmed by DC and I can't help but wonder how this will affect the company's bottom line. LOEG isn't Lost Girls, always likely to be a work of niche interest. In Britain it's been a conspicuous success, on sale in bookshops, the late Music Zone, and on the shelves of people who don't go in comic shops but like Alan Moore. A US-only release means that casual audience won't even know it exists.

sleazenation

10:56 / 08.08.07

I wouldn't put it past Moore to have planned this, or at the very least, considered the possibility of this all along.

After all, what better way to get back at a company that retains copyright on your work long after it was expected to expire than create a new work for them that they cannot sell in overseas territories specifically because the copyright has not expired...

Janean Patience

11:17 / 08.08.07

Plus the reports that he's made this as expensive as possible to produce, with pop-up sections and 3D bits and a Tijuana Bible and a CD... It's the Revenge of the Magi.

This Sunday

11:22 / 08.08.07

It's supposed to be the best thing ever, right? So it has to get as close to being contraband as it can manage.

Do we know, at this point, what features are being held back for the oversized edition?

Janean Patience

11:30 / 08.08.07

It comes with a vial of Paul Levitz's bitter, angry tears.

Jamie

16:18 / 08.08.07

After all, what better way to get back at a company that retains copyright on your work long after it was expected to expire than create a new work for them that they cannot sell in overseas territories specifically because the copyright has not expired...

That's a way I hadn't thought of looking at it. I had thought more along the lines of "How ironic that a man who objects strenuously to any changes made to his work should find his greatest success by re-envisioning the creations of others." But perhaps this was done intentionally...

Triplets

18:08 / 08.08.07

Don't assume anyone's as self-aware as you'd like them to be.

Jack Fear

09:41 / 16.10.07

Hey hey hey! Four-page preview up at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY! Hitchcock and Nineteen Eighty Four references ahoy!

Spaniel

10:10 / 16.10.07

Not reading nothing. Want to remain pure.

Nice to see some concrete evidence that this is out there, somewhere, waiting to be printed, shipped and dropped into my loving arms.

FinderWolf

15:07 / 16.10.07

why is the lettering crappy (IMHO of course)? The previous ones always had great lettering. This looks like 3rd rate lettering from some lame lettering site/font.

Mario

19:21 / 16.10.07

I'm just wondering who "RKC" is....

Jack Fear

19:50 / 16.10.07

"RKC" is meant to be one of General Harry Wharton (a/k/a "Big Brother")'s school chums; Wharton attended Greyfriars in the Billy Bunter books, where he was one of the Famous Five, who also numbered a fellow named Bob Cherry.

Robert (K) Cherry = RKC = QED.

Jack Fear

20:06 / 16.10.07

And about the lettering: apparently, it was redone for the ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY preview, presumably for reasons of legibility at low resolution—and redone without Todd Klein's knowledge and much to his displeasure. Presumably, it won't look like that in the actual book.

FinderWolf

01:14 / 17.10.07

Thank God. Seriously. Lettering matters, and that lettering was for crap. Good to hear that it was bogus EW lettering.

Also interesting to note in the link provided above that others registered the same things I thought when I read the article: a) Mina wasn't old and 'liver-spotted' in the first 2 series, only Alan; and b) their sexual encounter in Moreau's woods wasn't 'attempted' because they're old. Silly writing, Trix are for kids.

At least it was an otherwise decent spotlight about the book in a respectable pop culture magazine...

Mistoffelees

07:17 / 17.10.07

MILD SPOILER

Mina didn´t look aged in the preview. Maybe her vampirism has kicked in?

/END MILD SPOILER

Evil Scientist

08:11 / 17.10.07

I always assumed she just didn't age. However there's no reason she couldn't have taken a dip in the fountain of youth at the same time Quartermain did. That or they've been using it as their own personal Lazarus Pit through the ages.

Spaniel

09:21 / 17.10.07

'Swhat I thought

Mario

14:40 / 17.10.07

Thanks for clearing up the RKC thing.

Jack Fear

14:42 / 17.10.07

Easy-peasey. I'm telling you man, Jess Nevins is so over.

Now WHERE'S MY BOOK DEAL?

Mario

17:42 / 17.10.07

Would you believe, you are already too late?

Jack Fear

17:54 / 17.10.07

Sigh.

Yes, I know, Mario. That's kinda the fulcrum upon which the joke hinges.

Maybe it would help to read the post aloud, putting particular emphasis on the word "my".

Mario

18:35 / 17.10.07

Ah. I had the emphasis wrong.

FinderWolf

16:51 / 09.11.07

is this now slated for something like January 2008 release? just wondering... I think I heard it probably won't meet its target date of Nov. 25 or whatever; I hope I'm wrong or mis-remembering.

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