The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Today Century 1969, the latest volume in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, hits comic book store shelves. I really, really meant to get a review up here today of the book, but sadly, life has been getting in the way of comics lately (I know, I know, how dare it etc etc).

Just on a quick flick through, it’s everything you’d be expecting at this stage from Mssrs. Moore and O’Neill. Full of some incredible imagery, eye-popping 60s technicolour glory, a host of famous faces (and I’m sure another host of faces that only Moore and O’Neill and a few other people in the world know who they are and the rest of us have to wait until we read one of the various annotations online).

It’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 and here’s the PR:

“Chapter two of Centurytakes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London’s East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism.

Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London’s hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.”

In lieu of a review, we thought you’d appreciate a little preview Top Shelf have over at their site. Mina Harker, Allan Quartermain and Orlando wash up on the shores of Dover onboard the latest incarnation of Nemo’s Nautilus, with it’s new Captain at the helm…..