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San Francisco Chronicle, January 18th 2004: " Moore's script always works on multiple levels...O'Neill's art captures the humour, horror and spectacle of one of the best-known extraterrestrial invasions."- Michael Berry. Essex Chronicle, Thursday October 4th 2004, review by Matt Adams: " This is the War of the Worlds as you've never seen it before! A phenomenal fusion of literary giants, mixing legend, myth and pulp fantasy into a triumphant cocktail illustrated with style and aplomb by the great Kevin O'Neill." The Times Supplement December 2004: "Even more decadently filthy, gothic and thrilling than its predecessor...a ripping yarn"; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) 6 February 2005: " ...even if you've never read H.G Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson or Jules Verne, theres much to be enjoyed."
The Times Supplement December 2004
"Even more decadently filthy, gothic and thrilling than its predecessor...a ripping yarn"
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like the first brilliant volume in the series, this installment will appeal to fans of both Victorian genre literature and modern comics. While it doesn't quite reach the heights of Volume 1, it's still an entertaining concept with a decent story and great art. Following a rather bizarre opening battle scene on Mars (featuring John Carter of Mars and Gulliver), Moore's public-domain "heroes" of the 19th-century British Secret Service (Ms. Murray, the widowed wife of Mr. Harker from Dracula, gaunt ex-adventurer Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, the terrifying Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Hawley Griffin, aka The Invisible Man) are assembled to investigate mysterious meteors which have struck outside of London.
These meteors turn out to be invaders from Mars, and a "War of the Worlds" plotline unfolds, as the tripod aliens start incinerating everyone with their death rays and march on a steampunky Victorian London. As in the first volume, much of the storytelling revolves around the characters' relationships with one another, and here we're treated to a dreadful betrayal, a rather shocking (and graphically gross) affair, vengeance, and sacrifice. It's wonderfully written and the visual attention to detail is outstanding -- both story and art are packed with 19th-century literary inside jokes that will reward repeated reading. Especially prominent is the no longer isle-bound Dr. Moreau and his creations, who live sequestered in a British forest.
The artwork is once again pitch perfect throughout, with straightforward paneling jam-packed with detail. For example, a nice piece of dark character-based humor is found in the background of one early panel. The heroes survey the landscape just after a host of innocent citizens have been burned to cinders by the aliens, and while some talk in the foreground, Hawley Griffin is nonchalantly lighting a cigarette from a burning branch. For the Dr. Moreau part, the art is flatter and much more vividly colored, reminiscent of an old-fashioned children's book, albeit one with a good measure of weirdness.
The book comes with plenty of extras, including an amusing "Chutes and Ladders" type game, a lengthy gazetteer of lost worlds, original cover art, and other such tidbits. On the whole, while not quite as amazing as Volume I, this is still much much better than most stuff on the market, both in terms of writing and artwork. A word of caution, the book is not intended for young children. The violence can be rather graphic and there is graphic sexual material.
These meteors turn out to be invaders from Mars, and a "War of the Worlds" plotline unfolds, as the tripod aliens start incinerating everyone with their death rays and march on a steampunky Victorian London. As in the first volume, much of the storytelling revolves around the characters' relationships with one another, and here we're treated to a dreadful betrayal, a rather shocking (and graphically gross) affair, vengeance, and sacrifice. It's wonderfully written and the visual attention to detail is outstanding -- both story and art are packed with 19th-century literary inside jokes that will reward repeated reading. Especially prominent is the no longer isle-bound Dr. Moreau and his creations, who live sequestered in a British forest.
The artwork is once again pitch perfect throughout, with straightforward paneling jam-packed with detail. For example, a nice piece of dark character-based humor is found in the background of one early panel. The heroes survey the landscape just after a host of innocent citizens have been burned to cinders by the aliens, and while some talk in the foreground, Hawley Griffin is nonchalantly lighting a cigarette from a burning branch. For the Dr. Moreau part, the art is flatter and much more vividly colored, reminiscent of an old-fashioned children's book, albeit one with a good measure of weirdness.
The book comes with plenty of extras, including an amusing "Chutes and Ladders" type game, a lengthy gazetteer of lost worlds, original cover art, and other such tidbits. On the whole, while not quite as amazing as Volume I, this is still much much better than most stuff on the market, both in terms of writing and artwork. A word of caution, the book is not intended for young children. The violence can be rather graphic and there is graphic sexual material.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fun read but parts do not flow very well at all. One minute we are following the characters fleeing from the Martian crater to London Town and the next they are going straight back to the crater again. Sloppy writing indeed. I also found the section with the mixed up animals at odds with the rest of the story. Personally for me the best bits were the examination of Mr Hyde's character.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those who've arrived at this page having seen the film let me just say, this is better. In fact it's not even in the same league (pardon the pun).
For those who bought the first book, let me also say (not that you'll likely need much persuasion), this is better. The characters and relationships are far more complex (as ever with Moore, nobody draws characters as fascinating and believeable - even Neil Gaiman). The action is more convincing, the in-jokes far, far more detailed (not least in the appendices where Moore and O'Neill present us with a gazetteer of the world which seems to encompass every 'lost world' or 'shangri-la' type story ever written, from pre-Christian tales to the 1930s pulp stories).
A treat.
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Good
Good, but not as good as the first one - the previous had Sherlock and Moriatti. Will read the others next! =)
Published 4 months ago by Nic
More adventures with the League
Dense and brilliant. The New Traveller's Almanac section near the end can be a bit dautning at times but it's worth the read and really helps to flesh out the League's universe, it... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Octo7
Not directly like the first book
Like the first book this is an incredibly deep work.
Almost impossible to get all the hints and reference that are woven into it. Read more
Almost impossible to get all the hints and reference that are woven into it. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dornbusch Manuel
Alan Moore does it again
Yet another fantastic volume from the master of the graphic novel, Alan Moore.
Continuing from volume one, this book is beautifully and distinctively illustrated, and... Read more
Continuing from volume one, this book is beautifully and distinctively illustrated, and... Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by H. Melvin-Bath
To the End of the World and the Dark Side
The League are now having to assist in the defence of England (if not the world ) from an alien invasion. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2009 by Tubby
Why no film version of this?!
The second LOEG is set almost immediately after the first one, but is perhaps already even grittier. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by C Scognamiglio
Extraordinary.
This work by Kevin O'Neill is exactly what is says on the tin, extraordinary! Great follow up to Vol 1. If you enjoyed the first book then buy this one, you won't be dissapointed.
Published on 6 Aug 2009 by Jackojane
the great moore
In general comics are like american movies, happy end and easy action. Moore is much more. Read/watch it.
Published on 5 April 2009 by Adrian Albu
When does subversive genius become bad taste.
I think that in his review the Kinniburgh Kid got it right. While there are times that this is very clever, even in a moral sense, there are moments when it goes over the line from... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2008 by Andrew Dalby
Fun. But no classic like the first
With the first League book you could actually picture writer Alan Moore scribbling the tale out with a look of joyous glee on his face as he wrote. Read more
Published on 29 May 2008 by The Scribe
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