Mario the lone bookwolf's Reviews > The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

Let the different heroes unite for the epic end fight

For dark Moore standards, this is even somewhat easygoing
After having read some other of Moores´works, I simply didn´t expect this a bit more light style. It´s of course still crude, weird, and disturbing, but the evolution of Moore's writing, some may call the different manifestations of a prodigy balancing on the thin, bloody line above the seas of madness, can be seen in detail. But with

Less blood comes more storytelling
And what a brilliant homage to literature this thing is. I don´t know if it´s because Moore is an avid reader and loves books in general or if the works have a special meaning to him, but the central idea is ingenious. Just bring different fictional heroes together in one universe to let them fight for the subjectively good, no matter how bad they originally were. It´s kind of exactly what

Marvel does with the expansion of the universe
Both, the small league series and the Marvel behemoth are fueled by the millenia old ideas of gods, superhumans, or simply extremely smart and skilled individuals, crazy scientists, and warmongering world domination freaks. And as soon as such a legion of already well crafted, multi layered characters is united to fight one big quest, the only option is epicality.

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