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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
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Great concept, terrible execution. Moore manages to reduce about a dozen Victorian adventure classics to fit into his apparently pea-sized brain, and out comes this. This book offended both my conservative and my liberal impulses, with banal pornographic sequences, flat, amoral "heroes" and offensive Asian stereotypes. (Moore has less sympathy for Chinese people than Tolkien has for orcs.) This book certainly isn't suitable for children, and it's too childish for me. So I don't know who the audience is.
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May 15, 2008
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May 16, 2008
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Jan 03, 2009 06:12PM
Perhaps it is the Victorian perception of the Chinese that is offensive. I think Moore does a good job of using the Victorians mores against them. The Brits at that time thought of themselves as the highest of races - Dickens has a scene where someone who is smoking opium is described in Asian terms, a de-racinating effect. Perhaps you would concede that Moore is just playing off of how the Victorians acted and wrote rather than representing the Chinese as such?
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Andy, I just loved your review! I think you captured exactly what I was thinking about this text. Bravo :)
It's OK that you don't like this book. It's OK that you don't care for Alan Moore. But saying he has a "pea-sized brain" is knowing NOTHING about him.
Speaking of pea-sized brains!!
He didn't understand that the book is written and drawn in the Victorian perspective. Hence the Racism and sexism. This book must be read like a Penny dreadfull. Like the Black Dossier is like watching a 1950s movie and Roses of Berlin like watching a German Expressionism Film. Also, Alan Moore for children!????????
He didn't understand that the book is written and drawn in the Victorian perspective. Hence the Racism and sexism. This book must be read like a Penny dreadfull. Like the Black Dossier is like watching a 1950s movie and Roses of Berlin like watching a German Expressionism Film. Also, Alan Moore for children!????????
He didn't understand that the book is written and drawn in the Victorian perspective. Hence the Racism and sexism. This book must be read like a Penny dreadfull. Like the Black Dossier is like watching a 1950s movie and Roses of Berlin like watching a German Expressionism Film. Also, Alan Moore for children!????????
I was also unable to connect with this, and felt the same way about the movie. It's just a shame some of that early "weird fiction" doesn't get the proper treatment it deserves in modern re-make culture.
Mr. Windup Bird, I definitely agree with you (although I rather liked the movie). But, I haven't found too many modern attempts that actually did justice to the early tales.
