![]() There are numerous moments of heroism, drama, humour, and tenderness, with all present in a closing scene featuring little Jack Nemo. The erudition doesn’t detract from the entertainment, though. Another ingenious twist across sources deftly explains the numerous apparent sightings of Ayesha. Similarly, Janni’s bodyguard Hugo Coghlan weaves Hugo Hercules, star of the “earliest superhero fiction comic” into the intertextual history, as Celtic demigod Cú Chulainn. ![]() Janni’s own backstory told in ( Century 1910) merged her reaction against the Nemo legacy, with Brecht’s Pirate Jenny, in turn based on real life Jenny Diver. Moore is tireless in finding and re-appropriating characters. The series’ spectacular plots propel strong human stories, following over the half-century the developing cast of Nemos, Roburs and Ishmaels. A more serious aspect of the period is the spectre of surviving Nazis at large, multiplied here with the additional threats of emerging robotic and biologic technology at their disposal. ![]() Lethal bikini-bots, for example, combine the submissive Stepford Wives, with the period’s ‘anything goes’ permissiveness and a (perhaps unrecognised) fear of emerging feminism. Moore plunders with purpose, creating a vivid picture not just of a fictional South America, but of the era. The assault upon that settlement also neatly mirrors the previous instalment’s siege of Berlin. The journey ends in an enclave of World War II escapees, so picking threads from the previous instalment’s alternative history of Germany, and reflecting both fictions and real-life fears of the 1970s. This quest story neatly reverses the first instalment’s pursuit story, but with a common creative goal of taking the reader to previously unseen places, including The Lost World, and The Black Lagoon. Nevertheless, Nemo with new bodyguard Hugo Coghlan, stowaway grandson Jack, and the ghosts of her dead, sets off towards the Amazon, explaining the title River of Ghosts. The opening page demonstrates Alan Moore’s storytelling skill, neatly introducing the plot, and accumulated cast, as as they each sit across Nemo’s desk (pictured), questioning sightings of Ayesha, and the wisdom of “war with a dead woman”. Janni’s also preoccupied with her nemesis of the preceding books, African enchantress Ayesha. She’s elderly, ill, and possibly delusional, the latter perhaps explaining the ‘ghosts’ of lost shipmates (pictured, right): husband Broad Arrow Jack, First Mate, Mr Ishmael, and of course her father. We join Janni Dakkar, the second Captain Nemo, on her island haven in 1975. The crew of the Nautilus submarine has been taken to unexplored times and places in this all-encompassing fictional world: Antarctica in the 1920s, Germany in the 1940s, and now South America in the 1970s. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are hellbent on retrieving the lost manuscript.and ending the League once and for all.THE BLACK DOSSIER is an elaborately designed, cutting-edge volume that includes a "Tijuana Bible" insert and a 3-D section complete with custom glasses, as well as additional text pieces, maps, and a stunning cutaway double-page spread of Captain Nemo's Nautilus submarine by Kevin O'Neill.The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen spinoff concludes with River of Ghosts. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return in search of some answers - answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters - a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. The powers that be have instituted some changes. Written by Alan MooreArt and cover by Kevin O'Neill Acclaimed writer Alan Moore once again joins forces with artist Kevin O'Neill for THE BLACK DOSSIER - a stunning original hardcover graphic novel that is the next chapter in the fantastic saga of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN! England in the mid-1950s is not the same as it was. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier Hardcover 2nd Printing USD $ 29.99
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