All good things come in threes

Many of the great works of world literature are actually travelogues. Perhaps the most famous example is of course "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. "The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle is another example. A group of people sets out on a journey together, and the participants learn not only foreign countries and foreign cultures, no, her own life is also provided through the journey in question. And so would we be a bit closer to the concept of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Here one encounters the Abenteuerliteratur yesteryear whose stories and characters are brought into a new context in which they are integrated into a single, highly complex history.

This is the third volume, which is now the descendants of Jules Verne Nemo turns (where you actually also can add the first part of "Century"). And it is the third volume in a row, which tells quite straightforward a journey. While the first band in the Arctic, in the second volume in the Berlin of the 30s and 40s, so the journey time in the jungles of South America, while the world is already in the 70s. In the strongest scenes of the book, you realize that the main character feels this time as foreign. She has grown old, and with it are also their opponents fallen out of time. But when they attempt to bring the old days back, see the family Nemo resolute opponents.

One should not take it too seriously this band. This is not a new "Black Dossier", which brings together a whole range of different moods and styles. This here looks like a rather small, well-made and in some places even funny finger exercise. Irony - as well as playing with his own literary creation - that seems to be the drug of choice for Alan Moore here. And again it is worthwhile to look at some of the referenced in this book novels and films again. Some elements of these works is to watch it in a different light - such as the Stepford Wives.

All good things come in threes - but now it is enough for even. When the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen still to go, then it needs a new approach again.