Tercer volumen que cierra el tercer arco de la serie, y el primero que me ha gustado de esta tercera entrega. Estamos en el Londres de 2009, los tres restantes miembros de la Liga están dispersos y el Apocalipsis se acerca (ya era hora, vaya forma e perder el tiempo en los dos volúmenes anteriores).

Este volumen está narrado con algo más de ritmo que los anteriores (no era muy difícil) y la historia es más interesante (tampoco), aunque el final me ha parecido bastante anticlimático. Igual que en los arcos anteriores Alan Moore recurrió a personajes del siglo XIX, aquí toma prestadas dos figuras del XX y XXI, aunque sin dar directamente sus nombres (supongo que por problemas de copyright). Aunque está bien que actualice su mitología particular la elección no me ha terminado de convencer (aunque no digo más por no entrar en spoilers).

En resumen, si bien este volumen está mejor yo no recomendaría empezar este arco que estropea el buen sabor de los anteriores.

This was still clever especially a certain wizard's presence :). However, this story fell flat for me...

There's the joy of getting a reference and seeing how it fits into the larger work that more has created in this series, but not the joy seems to have curdled a bit as he sets his eye on modern England and the biggest franchise and it pulp hero.

I did enjoy getting the smaller references (Heroes, Doctor Who, The Thick of It, 30 Rock, 24, all the MI5 and Bonds, etc.), but it turns it a major downer when we get to Rowling's wizarding world. Mind you, Moore cannily doesn't mention Harry Potter by names and mixes in a lot of other British children's, wizarding, and mystical references to deflect a direct comparison, but it's pretty clear who we're talking about here. He even has quite a few jabs at Rowling's literary style.

I'm still agog at the literal Deus Ex Machina at the end who puts down this book's Anti-Christ. She literally comes out of the sky and defeats the Anti-Christ in a pretty anti-climatic way.

There are some clever bits about a school massacre at Hogwarts -- I'm sorry -- the wizard school and how it is shown in flashbacks as a first-person shooter (FPS) as a commentary on violent video games. I like how now, the League and its allies are all women, but Moore still loves the sex and O'Neill has want feels like gratituous tits in this book.

Speaking of O'Neill, boy, can he not do likenesses of film and TV characters. It's one thing to be able to spot Matt Smith's Doctor Who or Hiro from Heroes, but for a lot of characters, I had to guess who they were from contextual clues. Hmm, bookshop, kicking out customer with a cig and a wineglass in hand? Is it Bernard Black? Yep! Same deal with the Bonds.

Overall it works because it is the conclusion of the series, but as a standalone work, it's kind of weak.

P.S. Once again, if you haven't, Google "Jess Nevins League of Extraordinary Gentleman annotations" for more references.

This is getting 3 stars rather than 2 for old times sake more than anything. I generally preferred this to the second part, maintaining a clearer structure and more simple story but it ultimately felt a let down. Spoilers ahoy.

The League has changed so much from the first two volumes that I really loved. Alan is barely in it, Mina is absent for the first half and we are left with Orlando, mostly in the female form (which I prefer). The current ancestor of Nemo is occasionally mentioned and briefly is seen in an otherwise unconnected and insignificant side plot. I enjoyed the scenes with Andrew Norton as always.

Whereas I felt a little lost with the 60s references in Century 1969, I felt Alan came across more lost here. The James Bond/MI5 references were smart but some of the 'up to date' fictional cameos where at times, stretching it. A couple of old Doctors sure, but characters from the Fast Show which (aside from the special) ended in 1997?

The inclusion of Harry Potter should have been inevitable after the veiled hints throughout but I still wasn't quite expecting the lengths they went to. The flashbacks to a destroyed Hogwarts were effective and haunting (also giving us a skeletonised Thomas the Tank Engine, much to my amusement) and the final confrontations with a vengeful Mary Poppins was bizarre and beautifully drawn (there is some great work here by Kevin O'Neill). I think Alan holding Rowling/Potter for everything wrong in current society a little harsh and as for corrupting the minds of all the children? Hmmm.

It all inevitably felt very anticlimactic and in no way a complete story (as the 3 part arc was sold to us). Clearly there are more than enough loose ends (putting it mildly) to continue. It's generally been fun and I'd still recommend the original 2 League stories for fans of Victorian Boys-Own literature but I think I'm going to call it a day on the current League.

This one wasn't as bad (for me) as the others in this series but it was still saturated in references I didn't get and it was really kind of depressing. I read a synopsis of the entire 3 part series and still didn't really understand much of what was going on. This series is EXTREMELY different from the original graphic novel so it's important that you don't go into it thinking that it's going to be a pulpy action adventure novel. This is dark and deals with the stretching of the human soul "forced" to endure immortality.

I liked the anti-christ part a lot but the rest of it was kind of boring. The conclusion of the prose story was amazing (as were the previous installments) but as with the graphic novel I would suggest reading all of these books within close proximity to each other. Otherwise you spend half the time referencing the older books (if you have them) or catching up on the plot.

Not Alan Moore's best work. Only mildly interesting.

The third and last part of Century, 2009, opens with Orlando losing him(her)self in combat in the Middle East. On returning to London he is tasked with finding Mina and Allan by Prospero and then tracking down the Moonchild that they were supposed to have prevented being born. She finds Allan living on the streets a hopeless junkie who refuses to have anything to do with her or tracking down Mina. Turning to MI6 for help, Orlando inds that Mina has been in a mental institution since the aftermath of the events in Hyde Park at the end of book 2. Together they track down the anti-Christ and confront him in a last battle to prevent the apocalypse heralded by Oliver Haddo.

This volume contains some savage commentary apparently directed at J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter novels. In this version of reality Harry Potter would appear to be Haddo's Moonchild and anti-Christ. All in all this series has a much darker tone than the previous ones with themes of nihilism, helplesness and the decay of moral and aesthetic standards. So there is less of a feeling of entertainment and boy's own adventure but there is plenty or scholars of Moore and his work to get their teeth into. Given the high;y irregular release schedule, I am glad that I waited to read all three at once as they would have been unsatisfactory to read as standalone episodes.

A century long epic that is just as messy as its source material…

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill is the third true volume of the long running series. The black dossier was more of an anthology.

Featuring dozens of characters and hundreds of cultural references, the story follows a century long effort to summon the antichrist…or essentially a British occult antichrist…

This series is much harder to get into if you have only read the first two. It’s dependent on you knowing the deeper lore that can be discovered in the backmatter of the first two volumes and the black dossier, as characters that were previously only footnotes in prose travel guides become vital leads without warning.

I loved it, and I imagine Alan Moore fans would enjoy the deep crazy references, but or a casual reader or someone who only read the main comics, it’s probably pretty confusing.

The narrative hops across 3 main time periods from the shaky origins of the Moonchipd conspiracy to the final evolution of the grim project of madmen and their followers.

You even get a cameo of God…or at least the British literary God as envisioned by Alan Moore (and the character makes sense at least to me).

Even though it’s messy, it’s still fun to take a dip into this world regardless as each volume also contains fake ads, back matter, and pop art related to the period.

And if a reference turns you on to reading some new story or whatever, then that’s even better…

A slightly disappointing finale to a compelling series. Then again, should I be surprised Moore is a giant crank?