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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 3: Century

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11:22 / 19.06.08

Check out the description/interview compiled here (SPOILERS):

http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/League/loeg0028.html

I love the format of 3 72-page books that will hopefully all come out with the last one in 2009. The first book is a revamp of Three-Penny Opera. The second book seems like one of those ominous late 60s/early 70s disaster movies (I hope, nay, DEMAND some Kubrick homages if he's going for late 60s/early 70s...I hope Moore gives us some Monolith love). The third book seems almost like a homage to how Hollywood revamps older properties by updating ideas post 9-11. I hope Moore even is able to poke fun at the LoEG movie.

I'm exciting about the whole thing. The Dossier was neat, but I've been really looking forward to another adventure series that brings us closer to our time period. I'm curious about how Moore may bring together Harry Potter and the Anti-Christ or Dr. Who mixed with Clockwork Orange. We stop in the Dossier around the 1950s, and we miss out on stuff like Raul Duke as an action-adventure journalist...something I've been looking forward to ever since Moore mentioned that he'd go into the 20th century.

What do you think about this story? And, more importantly, will the last issue be wrapped in celephane and contain a video game where you get to play as a member of the League?

12:04 / 19.06.08

A functional link.

Also, for future reference, a quick primer on how to properly format links, so people like me won't think you're a lazy bastard.

12:10 / 19.06.08

But none of this is actually new information, eh? I mean, does anyone have some hard facts on the matter of when it'll hit the shops, or are we just supposed to be hella excited about last year's news? Don't get me wrong, I'm REALLY looking forward to this, but I don't want to start getting hot under the collar if we're gonna have to wait another two or three years.

13:29 / 19.06.08

In the overall course of this third book, I think that the subtext is probably going to be the decline of culture. I mean, the first part is set in 1910 and will probably be packaged in the style of one of the very beautiful post-art-nouveau art movements of that period, and will look fairly gorgeous. The second one, set in 1968, will probably have a cover that is in a psychedelic poster style. The third one will be reflective of our culture in 2008. And, I think that something about the tone of the books themselves and the way that they’re packaged will kind of give a strong message that we’ve come a long way since the glory days of the Victorian era, with all of those marvelous and rich characters. Yes, we’ve come a long way and it wasn’t necessarily in the right direction.

I loved all of the LOEG books, especially Black Dossier, but I can't help but feel a little ominous about the almost Daily Mail-esque tone of that quote...

The Natural Way

14:18 / 19.06.08

There actually is quite a lot of new info there, though. The fact that Century probably isn't the end of the League's adventures came as something of a very, very pleasant surprise.

15:41 / 19.06.08

AGING WRITER IN "THINGS SO MUCH BETTER IN THE PAST" SHOCKER
"I was born at the wrong time," says madjzyckkian, wiping tears with graying beard

18:19 / 19.06.08

Nope, NW, I'm pretty sure we have heard that information before. Isn't the piece Gary's linked to just a collection of old quotes? I think perhaps someone might have linked to new Moore-talk before now.

Gypsy, been worried about that for a while. It does sound like old curmudgeoness.

20:53 / 19.06.08

Sorry boboss, I didn't think anyone had this information. I received it today when I got my Top Shelf Promo Book and found the links above. I knew that it was coming out, but I didn't know, for instance, the scope of the story or the winks to Omen, Monty Python and the fictional country on West Wing.

But, more to the point, I didn't see a thread specifically about LoEG Vol 3, so I figured I would start one in anticipation.

07:33 / 20.06.08

What is nice Top Shelf promo book? Should I take it that if this was in there we should be seeing LOEG sometime soon?

07:51 / 20.06.08

been worried about that for a while. It does sound like old curmudgeoness.

Yeah. Although, having said that, if Alan Moore actually was writing copy for the Daily Mail about how awful things are today compared to how great they were in the past - it would probably still be worth a look.

11:52 / 20.06.08

HAPPINESS WILL PREVAIL!!!!!

The first part should be out later this year.

12:57 / 20.06.08

More Moore here

14:52 / 02.07.08

DC apparently just announced, according to www.comicscontinuum.com:

>> * DC announced that the Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier Heradcover, due in stores on July 30, will not include the 45-rpm record as originally solicited.

Very odd, since the 45 record was trumpeted as being the only new material in the hardcover. Ah well. No more hearing Alan Moore boom, bluster and warble his way through a new song he wrote.

16:04 / 02.07.08

Probably for the best, since I don't have a turntable anymore....

17:54 / 02.07.08

Has the 3D been fixed?

17:58 / 02.07.08

Was it broken? It's one of the few 3d books that actually worked for me.

18:20 / 02.07.08

They used the wrong colours. Or packaged it with the wrong colour lenses, depending on your point of view.

18:21 / 02.07.08

I just did an excellent pun, I did.

20:11 / 02.07.08

You did!

Mario, it works, but not exactly as it should.

21:18 / 02.07.08

Good excuse to pick up the Absolute edition, then

00:37 / 03.07.08

If I recall, the green eye works fine, but you can see both colours through the right eye. Worked well enough to get the idea, but I don't know if I'd be prepared to pay £50 to fix it. Maybe I'll just nick the glasses out of a copy in Forbidden Planet.

07:11 / 03.07.08

it seemed to work ok for me, the only bleed was nyalarthotep and i think that was intentional - so you could see his humanoid and monster forms at the same time. nice touch. but if those lovely effects get even better in the enw print - nice, but agree not £50 worth of nice.

maybe this third eye thing of mine that just opened was helping me see the 3d though.

07:20 / 03.07.08

On the DC site, it still says the record is included:

"As if this wasn't enough, also included is a NEW rarity: a 45-rpm vinyl recording of the song "Immortal Love," sung by Alan Moore himself!"

But apart from the record, is there anything new? Is the absolute edition just bigger than the other editions? Is there a good enough reason to buy it, if you already have the Black Dossier?

07:25 / 03.07.08

Boy I hope Moore can sing.

09:28 / 03.07.08

If you can call it singing...

20:18 / 03.07.08

If I recall, the green eye works fine, but you can see both colours through the right eye.

Other way around. The printing was red and blue, the specs were red and green, meaning that you saw the blue print through both eyes. There was still *some* 3D effect, but it wasn't half as effective as it should have been.

I still can't believe it passed through like that, after the Ray Zone/not Ray Zone/Ray Zone stupidity. Hell, the Ray Zone site even has red and blue specs in all the photos, like the mistake wasn't obvious enough.

Seriously, source a pair of those colours - or make one - and read those pages again. The difference will shoot out at you.

Moore's voice works brilliantly against music, btw. The Highbury Working remains a firm favourite around these parts.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:43 / 03.07.08

Hang on, let me make sure I understand this. You pay a large amount of money to buy a prestige product. One of the parts of the product is defective, to the point where the product does not work as described. The response to this is to buy a more expensive, ultimate version of the same product, in the hope that the defective part will have been fixed?

I assumed the problem with the 3-D was just my wonky eyes.

21:39 / 03.07.08

I just tried red-blue instead of red-green glasses and the 3D effect doesn´t improve for me. It´s just fine. And I see the blue lines even if I look just through the blue instead of just the green screen.

I did discover the little prince standing on his space rock, though.

09:12 / 04.07.08

The main reason why I'd consider getting the AE is it's larger size. Of course, if I do decide to get it, it'll undoubtedly be going on my Christmas list

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:17 / 04.07.08

Oh, is it bigger? The solicitation (CURSE YOU GOD FOR MAKING ME THIS WAY) says "oversized slipcase hardcover", but it doesn't specify how oversized it is...

09:32 / 04.07.08

I should have said that I'm assuming it will be bigger given that the last two have been. Would be much nicer bigger

Janean Patience

15:44 / 04.07.08

I just tried red-blue instead of red-green glasses

Love that you just had a spare pair of 3D glasses lying around for just such situations. Or perhaps a whole cabinet of them in different variations.

17:23 / 04.07.08

Yes, I have some of these funky glasses (for example "spectral-rainbow-glasses", that let you see eight rainbow-coloured copies around every object you see), and I even have untinted 3D glasses (www.chromatek.com).

I got the red-blue ones from a conspiracy guy from the USA, who had some 3D pictures on his site. And he offered to send every visitor of his site to send him those glasses, so I emailed him and a week later got them! I was really surprised. That guy is a bit strange though. I read he once went through Bob Dylan´s trash and BD beat him up.

The Natural Way

13:25 / 17.10.08

Did that link at the top contain those images before?

I think that site's adding new content from new interviews and stuff as they happen - in fact, I'm sure it is, 'cause I've found some of those interviews....

Haus of Mystery

14:36 / 17.10.08

London lithers - GOSH! comics has some pages from 'Century' up fer all to see. And very nice they are too.

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