Nemo: The Roses of Berlin

[JOE SOAP]

From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, travelling with her ageing lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals, and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany's notorious 'Twilight Heroes', a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse. Continuing in the thrilling tradition of Heart of Ice, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in a blazing new adventure, set in a city of totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares. Cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, lost in the black and bloody alleyways where thrive The Roses of Berlin.

[Dark Jimbo]

Sex-wee!

[TordelBack]

Fabarooney.  Now there's something to look forward too without fear of lens-flare.  If this is as good as Heart of Ice I'll be very happy indeed.

There do seem to be rather a lot of ageing male consorts and their brusquely efficient younger partners in LoEG...

[Trout]

Oh yes please! I really enjoyed Heart of Ice.

[The Adventurer]

Sweeeeeeet

[Davek]

Is Heart of Ice that good? I passed as 1969 and Black Dossier totally turned me off LOEG.

[Proudhuff]

when?

[JOE SOAP]

April 2014.

[Professor Bear]

Sold.  I do hope it has rape in it and uses other people's characters without asking their permission so the people who hate Moore will have something to latch onto, though.

[Frank]

Sold.  I do hope it has rape in it and uses other people's characters without asking their permission so the people who hate Moore will have something to latch onto, though.

That's just Moore acknowledging the truth, universally accepted, that comics which don't feature recognised characters sell like Easter eggs in September, isn't it? It's only a slightly more sneaky version of his deciding to write Superman without DC's permission when he took over Supreme. Judging by the state of UK newsstands, Moore should be creating analogues of Ben 10 and Peppa Pig if he still harbours ambitions of earning a living from comics.

[TordelBack]

Moore should be creating analogues of Ben 10 and Peppa Pig if he still harbours ambitions of earning a living from comics.

Glycon speed those words from your keyboard to his mighty thatch!  I would pay serious money to read Alan Moore's In The Night Garden. 

Out on the ocean / far from land / a little raft / made from dead men's hands

[Frank]

I would pay serious money to read Alan Moore's In The Night Garden.  Out on the ocean / far from land / a little raft / made from dead men's hands

Arf! If Mick McMahon wants to draw it, they've got my £4.00 (!) every week - even without a nasty plastic toy attached to the cover.

[Steve Green]

Plastic toy Glycon finger puppet.

[The Adventurer]

Is Heart of Ice that good? I passed as 1969 and Black Dossier totally turned me off LOEG.

I enjoyed it a lot. More adventurous then recent LOEG, but also shorter.

But I enjoyed 1969 and 2009 quite a bit.

[Zarjazzer]

That cover alone makes me want to buy it. I found Heart of Ice very good indeed, looking forward to this.