I finished reading through LoEG relatively recently and had a fair time doing it. But yes, it's 100% the case that the frist two colletions breeze on by, while the rest of it feels more of a slog. I winder if that's how it felt to write, too? As if Moore and O'Neill had a jolly old wheeze putting the first two stories together, then felt they had to keep trying to exhume and insert as many cultural/litrary touchpoints as they could think of, and it sort of sucked out the joy of a simple plot told with just a handful of characters.
That said, the moments where Moore makes you go 'oooooh, that's dead clever that is' do make me feel real good. And those moments crop up in Watchmen, From Hell and League of Eggs, reliably.
That said, the moments where Moore makes you go 'oooooh, that's dead clever that is' do make me feel real good. And those moments crop up in Watchmen, From Hell and League of Eggs, reliably.