NEMO: Heart of Ice

[The Adventurer]

More details about Moore and O'Neil's next League of Extraordinary Gentlemen project, NEMO: Heart of Ice over at CBR

The longstanding links between The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's U.K. publisher Knockabout and the London comic shop Gosh! mean that Gosh!'s blog is the place to go for news relating to Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's ongoing opus. The retailer has posted a synopsis and cover image for the next installment, the stand-alone Nemo: Heart of Ice:


It's 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her science-pirate father, only to eventually take on his mantle and accept her destiny as the new Nemo; the next captain of the legendary Nautilus. A thirty year-old Pirate Jenny, tired of punishing the world with an unending spree of plunder and destruction, is resolved to finally step from her forebear's lengthy shadow by attempting something at which he'd conspicuously failed, namely the exploration of Antarctica. In 1895 her father had returned from that ice-crusted continent without his reason or his crewmen, all of whom appeared to have mysteriously perished or to otherwise have disappeared. Now Captain Nemo's daughter and successor plans to take her feared and celebrated black submersible back to the world's South Pole in an attempt to lay her sire's intimidating ghost forever.

There are others, though, who have become as tired of Janni's freebooting as she herself. An influential publishing tycoon, embarrassed by the theft of valuables belonging to a visiting Ugandan monarch, sets a trio of America's most lauded technological adventurers on the pirate queen's trail, commencing a nightmarish chase across the frozen landscape with the pinnacles of the forbidding mountains where Prince Dakkar's sanity had foundered growing ever nearer...

In a fast-paced, self-contained adventure, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill thrillingly expand on one of Century's most memorable characters, venturing into dazzling polar territories and fictional domains including those of Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, with all of these vectors headed for an unforgettable encounter at the living, beating and appallingly inhuman HEART OF ICE.

Hardcover, 48 pages, £9.99.
Due February 2013

48 pages for around $15 American seems a bit steep. But... eh... I still like LoEG despite everything.

Also real curious whom 'a trio of America's most lauded technological adventurers' are. Tom Swift maybe?!

[TordelBack]

Tom Swift for definite, but there are dozens of candidates from the 20s and 30s, from the Airship Boys, Professor Butts, the Boy Inventors to Doc Savage himself.

Hoh boy oh boy, I am very excited by that outline.

[JOE SOAP]

An influential publishing tycoon


Not Charles Foster Kane?

[TordelBack]

An influential publishing tycoon


Not Charles Foster Kane?

That is almost too great.

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

Heart of Ice looks like excellent source material for a Darwyn Cooke series. Can't wait.

[Zarjazzer]

Is that a giant tentacle of some cosmic horror of cyclopean plasticity in the background there? Sold.

[The Adventurer]

Is that a giant tentacle of some cosmic horror of cyclopean plasticity in the background there?

This appears to tie heavily with The Mountains of Madness. So... probably!

[Zarjazzer]

Is that a giant tentacle of some cosmic horror of cyclopean plasticity in the background there?

This appears to tie heavily with The Mountains of Madness. So... probably!

I do hope so. I'm intrigued by the cover alone.

[ming]

Oooh... Looks like I'll have to get up to speed with all things LoEG, then.  I seem to have let things slide since 1910. 

This is the second great bit of O'Neill news today (the first being the self-published Mek Memoirs that O'Neill produced back in 1976; never heard of that until it popped up in a DJ Food blog post...)

[O Lucky Stevie!]

When creating 2000ad Pat Mills was dead set on excluding robots as he associated  them with Robot Archie & the old guard of British comics that he so wanted to avoid.

It was Kev showing him  Mek Memoirs that changed his mind on that front.

[The Adventurer]

Surprised there hasn't been more chatter about this book. It came out this week, and while not as chunky, or rebust as the Century series before it I found it to be fascinating reading. So much so that its finally got me off my duff to read At the Mountains of Madness for the first time. I might take a crack at Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket too.

Anyway, Nemo is a lot more straight forward then Century was, much more of an adventurer's journey tale. Straight forward, but also a bit too short IMO. Some of the Nautilus's crew members don't get a lot of time to develop. And it took me a while to sort out who Reade, Wright, and Swyfte were between themselves. Some great references though, as typical of LoEG.

[Professor Bear]

The annotations: http://jessnevins.com/annotations/heartofice.html

[Daveycandlish]

It's out? Curses, Amazon! *shakes fist*
Where's my copy?!

[Mabs]

It's out? Curses, Amazon! *shakes fist*
Where's my copy?!

I think the digital copy is out hence the reviews i'm seeing online. I also orderered the hardback copy sometime ago, it was meant to be released on the 14th of February (same day as Day of Chaos tpb), but now its been moved forward to 5th March. I'm also pissed off as i so wanted to read this, but seeing as its a couple of days away, might as well wait. 

[Andy_Lee]

It's out? Curses, Amazon! *shakes fist*
Where's my copy?!

Snap! I also pre-ordered from Amazon and was a little miffed I could have read it on Comixology last week. Only just started the move to digital, it's better than waiting weeks for a monthly delivery of pre-ordered floppies.