Is Billy Bunter really Big Brother

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	• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier Alan Moore Wildstorm, 2007 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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Is Billy Bunter really Big Brother

Even if you haven't read the 101 novels, plays and pulp magazines referenced in this thrilling roller coaster action adventure, you'll still love it. It's high speed chase through 1950's England climaxing at the 3D top of the world, punctuated by extracts from the fabled Black Dossier - The book about all the previous Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Is that James Bond? Is that Emma Peel? Has Billy Bunter grown up and become George Orwells Big Brother? You Decide.

LXG: black dossier

The random extracts from "The Black dossier" and 3D pages make this well worth reading. However the central plot is a little weak, and is just an excuse to fit in many pop-culture references. I was hoping for more swashbuckling adventures in the style of the other LXG graphic novels.
That said Alan Moore is an amazing writer and i don't know of any other writer who could handle the different styles of prose used in this collection.

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good, but it's not what you expect

I have read it and re - read it, and I think it's good, really, and Moore put a great effort to make his world even richer of allusions, quotations and homages to the mid twentieth century literature, with a great framework taken from a "post - Orwellian" society. the prose experiment is also good even if it has some part well constructed and other a bit repetitive. so if you love Moore works and the League, you've read Nevins commentary and you are amused by the game of quotations, puns and allusions hidden in the text, buy it, it's probably written precisely for you, but if you won't, it's not half as good as the other league volumes and the author tends to be a little too much enthralled by his own creation and in some points the "Black dossier" is a bit self referential.

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Ehh

I felt the graphic novel was a tad boring, not only in story but visually.

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England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted...some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are 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. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are Hell-bent on retrieving the lost manuscript... and ending the League once and for all.

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