The Book that made us ask "Did you have to go there?" (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

Welcome everybody! This is our review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 1 by Alan Moore. This is our third book in the theme of Western Comics Classics. 

 

This comic follows a group of individuals who are brought together by a woman who was recently divorced, by the name of Wilhelmina Murray. The team is composed of Miss Murray, a washed up adventurer named Quartmain, a hermit sea captain named Nemo, a one Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man. An astute reader would notice all these characters are pulled from Victorian literary fiction. This team is sent to recover an object known as the Cavorite Crystal, a crystal of antigravity. It's fallen into the hands of Chinese criminals in the East side of London. Through deception and stealth they steal the object back and return it to their employer, Mr. Bond. However, through reconnaissance, the Invisible Man discovers that Mr. Bond’s employer Mr. M is not Mycroft Holmes as Miss Murray assumed. The “M” stands for James Moriarty. Yep, the infamous arch rival to Sherlock Holmes. The League must stop Moriarty before he uses it to power his airship of destruction and wreak havoc on London.

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