The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's 2013 follow-up to their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century series was a bit of a left turn for the series. Nemo: Heart of Ice was a spinoff featuring the new Captain Nemo traveling in the antarctic. Top Shelf announced today that the team is continuing the spinoff series with a new world-spanning adventure for Janni Dakkar, this time in 1941 Germany (of sorts

I have a minor conceptual obsession with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Specifically, I like imagining how it could be applied to modern copyright-protected culture, especially TV and movies. It's a nerdy parlor game I sometimes play on Twitter...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * You wait months, and then two show up at once ^ Seas of eyes % Retrospectacle * % ALAN MOORE: STORYTELLER Gary Spencer Millidge has made something of a career of being an Alan Moore expert--he co-edited the Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman anthology a couple of years ago... Read Mo

Art: Brandon Ortwein's reimaginings of geeky conveyances as tricked-out vans will have you scoping used car lots by the end of the day. Hollywood: If you hate surprises, you can read all about the leaked (and possibly fake/too old to matter)upcoming Deadpool movie script by Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick...

Art: The cover to Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969" has surfaced at last. I kind of want to live in it. Hollywood: Zack Snyder's upcoming "Superman" film apparently won't be based on previous movie or comic stories...