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Six-issue miniseries will serve as "swan song" not only to award-winning LEAGUE series but also to creators' careers

After an epic seventeen-year journey through the entirety of human culture – the biggest cross-continuity ‘universe’ that is conceivable – Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill will conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series’ spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest.

Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world’s most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team will use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.

Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha’s lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of ‘We’ on the devastated Earth of the year 2996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero’s Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories.

Commencing as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children’s comics that will make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus will also reprint classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.

-- a 6-issue mini-series, each issue 32 pages in (mostly) full color, saddle stitched, 6 5/8” x 10 1/8” (standard comic-book size), $4.99 (US). Issue #1 is scheduled for June 2018.

Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout (UK).

 

[hobozero]

Wait, Moore is retiring?

 

[HStallion]

Wait, Moore is retiring?

Yeah he was talking about it during the run of Providence.

 

[SpaceWolf]

YES!

Been waiting for this forever!

With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories.

(Salivates)

Looking forward to some inevitable sci-fi madness.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

I'm in

 

[adj_noun]

WOOHOO

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Oh shit!

 

[Seth Enosh]

Nice.

I also liked the movie of this when I saw it a long time ago. I think I read the first two volumes of this, seems I have some catching up to do.

 

[IrishNinja]

I must have missed volume 3...also Moore finally retiring will be tragic, he was one of the GOATs

Yeah he was talking about it during the run of Providence.

did that one ever finally tie up? I'd followed the 2 Lovecraftian series prior but wasn't sure if the 12 (?) parter was the finale or even wrapped up

 

[Shauni]

Ah yes, been waiting for this. A lot of people didn't like Volume 3, but I thought it was a great evolution of the concept, and the Nemo one-shots have all been great

 

[m3k]

Oh shit!

!

i just thought moore would be retiring, nice to get another league of extrordinary story

they really surprised me when i first read them

edit: i just picked up the nemo off shoot but didnt realise it was the same world... i just saw moore and borrowed it from the library

 

[SpaceWolf]

Ah yes, been waiting for this. A lot of people didn't like Volume 3, but I thought it was a great evolution of the concept, and the Nemo one-shots have all been great

You've got to admire a story's gall when it features Harry Potter committing a high school massacre at Hogwarts.

 

[Shauni]

I must have missed volume 3...also Moore finally retiring will be tragic, he was one of the GOATs




did that one ever finally tie up? I'd followed the 2 Lovecraftian series prior but wasn't sure if the 12 (?) parter was the finale or even wrapped up

Yeah, Providence was finished. And Volume 3 is called Century. It's good, but it's very, very different book than the previous volumes

 

[Mac the KNife]

Absolutely loved the batshit insanity of Volume 3, ready for Tempest!

 

[HStallion]

I suspect Moore might be a Hayao Miyazaki type who is retires over and over again.

 

[m3k]

I suspect Moore might be a Hayao Miyazaki type who is retires over and over again.

i can see that cause he hasnt been positive about comics for... a while

gaf, help me read the best of moore please

have read watchmen, v, league of extrodinary gentlemen... i wanna track down his unofficial take on superman soon. what else are good?

 

[BaconHat]

i can see that cause he hasnt been positive about comics for... a while

gaf, help me read the best of moore please

have read watchmen, v, league of extrodinary gentlemen... i wanna track down his unofficial take on superman soon. what else are good?

Heard good thing about his swamp thing run.

 

[kmfdmpig]

i can see that cause he hasnt been positive about comics for... a while

gaf, help me read the best of moore please

have read watchmen, v, league of extrodinary gentlemen... i wanna track down his unofficial take on superman soon. what else are good?

DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore has some of his gems from DC.

From Hell, MarvelMan and Swamp Thing are probably the most notable/best things missing from your list.

 

[Shadowhelper]

Just how good is League of Extraordinary Gentleman? Is it essential? Thinking of ordering the trades.

 

[SpaceWolf]

Just how good is League of Extraordinary Gentleman? Is it essential? Thinking of ordering the trades.

If you like your classic literature, it's essential.

 

[Dan]

Ah yes, been waiting for this. A lot of people didn't like Volume 3, but I thought it was a great evolution of the concept, and the Nemo one-shots have all been great

I really dug the Nemo books. Volume III was okay, but I do think the series gets a little messy when Moore is jumping through hoops to allude to copywritten characters and more recent pop culture and history. There are just some added complications that get in the way of the storytelling.

I've still never read The Black Dossier however...

 

[timberger]

That's interesting. I really enjoyed the Nemo trilogy they did, so hopefully this is more like that and less like Black Dossier.

Shame to hear they're retiring, but it's been a long time coming for Moore.

 

[Einchy]

I never did get volume 3 since black dossier was so fucking weird and not much of a comic book. I did like that character hat was immortal and changed genders over the centuries, though.

 

[IrishNinja]

Yeah, Providence was finished. And Volume 3 is called Century. It's good, but it's very, very different book than the previous volumes

oh? is it still horror & does it connect to the others?

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I never did get volume 3 since black dossier was so fucking weird and not much of a comic book. I did like that character hat was immortal and changed genders over the centuries, though.

Orlando was a pretty good addition, but Allan got done dirty. Also I felt like every scene with the prisoner of london was Moore laughing at his audience's gullibility. I have some very mixed feelings about the direction taken by League (See: The Golliwog kerfuffle), but will probably end up buying this out of sheer morbid curiosity.

 

[Shauni]

oh? is it still horror & does it connect to the others?

It's a direct sequel to Volume 2 and Black Dossier, so yeah. It's not much horror really, but none of the main volumes really were.

I never did get volume 3 since black dossier was so fucking weird and not much of a comic book. I did like that character hat was immortal and changed genders over the centuries, though.

That's Virginia Wolf's Orlando

i can see that cause he hasnt been positive about comics for... a while

gaf, help me read the best of moore please

have read watchmen, v, league of extrodinary gentlemen... i wanna track down his unofficial take on superman soon. what else are good?

Moore loves comics, actually, he just hates the industry and thinks superheroes have hit a dead-end.

 

[LordRaptor]

I wasn't a fan of Vol 3 or Black Dossier, so unsure if I'll pick this up.
I generally like Moore, but some of his stuff I just bounce off completely - Lost Girls, and Promethea as well as LOEG v3

gaf, help me read the best of moore please

Top Ten is Good Comics, I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone regardless of genre taste

 

[hobozero]

You've got to admire a story's gall when it features Harry Potter committing a high school massacre at Hogwarts.

Also shown in first person, alluding to the "games inspired shootings" argument, and invoking Columbine.

 

[Maxios]

I adore the first two volumes, don't care too much for Black Dossier, dislike Century, and like the Nemo books. I'm cautiously optimistic for this.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I really wish Moore had gotten to finish his long term plans for 1963, the start of that made me so damn happy to read.

 

[Maxios]

I really wish Moore had gotten to finish his long term plans for 1963, the start of that made me so damn happy to read.

What were his original plans for it?

 

[TissueBox]

Weeeheheweell.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

What were his original plans for it?

Imagine Moore giving the Watchmen treatment to 90s image superheroes.

The series has never been finished as originally intended. When first announced, the limited series was supposed to be followed by an 80-page annual, illustrated by Jim Lee, in which the 1963 characters were sent thirty years into "the future", where they met then-contemporary 1993 characters published by Image Comics. Moore intended to make a commentary on how the air of "realism" brought to Marvel Comics in the early 1960s had paved the way for the "mature" and "grim and gritty" American comics of the 1990s. Moore has stated that his own work, Watchmen, is at least partially responsible for this trend.

Moore was less than halfway through writing the script for the annual when Jim Lee announced that he was taking a year-long sabbatical from comic book art. Moore put the script aside, and after that year had passed, many things had changed. Rob Liefeld had left Image, which meant that some of his characters could not be used. Jim Lee was swamped with work and unlikely to be able to complete the work. The tide had changed, and superhero comics had begun to become less gritty, and Moore stated that his interest in writing superheroes had waned.

 

[Shauni]

oh? is it still horror & does it connect to the others?

Oh shit, I just realized you were asking about Providence here, not League. Yeah, it's still horror. It's mostly a prequel, but the last 2-3 issues has direct ties to the previous books

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I dug the original book and it's sequel but the rest of them were just too weird.

Harry Potter turns into this btw:

 

[HStallion]

I dug the original book and it's sequel but the rest of them were just too weird.

Harry Potter turns into this btw:

So a Tuesday for Alan Moore?

 

[wetflame]

Oh fantastic news. Really enjoy LoEG as a series, actually just recently finished a re-read of the whole lot except for the Nemo one shots. Will be picking this up for sure.

 

[shockthrill]

Are my eyes blinded but do i see Superheroes in that white and black graphic on the cover of the comic?


Alan Moore

2017

superheroes


are we in an alternate reality here folks