More details about Moore and O'Neil's next League of Extraordinary Gentlemen project, NEMO: Heart of Ice over at CBR (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/09/synopsis-cover-art-debut-for-loeg-stand-alone-nemo-heart-of-ice/)
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QuoteThe 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?!
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.
An influential publishing tycoon
Not Charles Foster Kane?
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 05 September, 2012, 05:39:26 PM
An influential publishing tycoon
Not Charles Foster Kane?
That is almost
too great.
Heart of Ice looks like excellent source material for a Darwyn Cooke series. Can't wait.
Is that a giant tentacle of some cosmic horror of cyclopean plasticity in the background there? Sold.
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 05 September, 2012, 09:43:11 PM
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!
Quote from: The Adventurer on 05 September, 2012, 10:13:05 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 05 September, 2012, 09:43:11 PM
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.
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...)
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.
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.
The annotations: http://jessnevins.com/annotations/heartofice.html
It's out? Curses, Amazon! *shakes fist*
Where's my copy?!
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 03 March, 2013, 07:53:00 AM
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. :-\
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 03 March, 2013, 07:53:00 AM
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.
Phew, thought I'd missed it! Can't wait to get my paws on this one, the annual Slaine and LoEG volumes are my sole GN purchases of recent years.
I still haven't read Century or The Black Dossier yet, strange considering how much i loved the first two books. I think this might be the right time to order these.
Loved Heart of Ice and there's more League (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/09/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-the-roses-of-berlin-next/) on the way:
"Straight from the lips of Alan Moore: the next League book is set in 1941 and called "The Roses of Berlin" Apparently he's 16 pages away from the end of scripting and Kevin O'Neill has completed 10 or so pages! After that one, there's another stand alone planned, then back to League Volume 4″.
I read Heart of Ice earlier today and I am still not sure if I liked it or not.
Whilst the news that lots more League stories are in the works is to be welcomed, I don't think this augurs well for anyone with hopes of a Mills/O'Neil reunion anytime soon....
QuoteLoved Heart of Ice and there's more League on the way:
"Straight from the lips of Alan Moore: the next League book is set in 1941 and called "The Roses of Berlin" Apparently he's 16 pages away from the end of scripting and Kevin O'Neill has completed 10 or so pages! After that one, there's another stand alone planned, then back to League Volume 4″.
A closer look at 'Moritz Rotwang's Berlin Metropolis', perhaps? And maybe more of that German 'League' mentioned in Black Dossier I'd imagine.
Quote from: Mabs on 03 March, 2013, 10:16:44 AM
I still haven't read Century or The Black Dossier yet, strange considering how much i loved the first two books. I think this might be the right time to order these.
Me neither. Although in my case I really liked the first but was put off a bit by the second. A bit too raunchy and downbeat for my taste. Not that I'm against a story going to a dark place, I guess it's just the way it's presented, and I found Volume 2 rather nasty. There was some great interesting stuff in there though.
I found myself struggling with the section at the back too. I never got through it before taking back to the library, so I wonder how I'd take to The Dossier? I do find the premise of these books very interesting though.
I think Nemo might be more up my street, although I never really took to the Lovecraftian stuff like many here seem to. (I've read some of his short stories and they didn't do much for me overall, although the ideas and imagery was interesting.)
Quote from: Mardroid on 10 March, 2013, 02:10:49 PM
A bit too raunchy and downbeat for my taste.
I find pretty much everything is too unraunchy for my taste. Even Lost Girls.
QuoteI think Nemo might be more up my street, although I never really took to the Lovecraftian stuff like many here seem to. (I've read some of his short stories and they didn't do much for me overall, although the ideas and imagery was interesting.)
The strip is not raunchy or downbeat, but it is mainly a reinterpretation of Mountains of Madness.
I really, really love Lovecraft and I'm not sure if that helped or hindered my appreciation for Heart of Ice. I enjoyed the Ian Culbard adaption of Mountains far more, although I genuinely have no idea which is the better graphic novel.
I have all the Centuries to date, and i have yet to adquire Black Dossier, and NEMO.
The weird thing is that it's not available at Amazon.co.uk. It says "available for pre-order". At least the Knockabout edition. While the other one, the Top Shelf edition, it's "temporally out of stock". Curiously, One of these editions is available at the Bookdepository. And the BD being an Amazon group store, i don't understand how the big one doesn't have it and the "small" one has it.
I have to wait a little more. Ina few days we gonna have the Saint Week holidays, wich basically is a religious festivity, with some of the days of the week as holidays, but as a whole, all "slows down". Ordering something from Abebooks or Bookdepository could be a pain in the a** for it to arrive. Last tie i've orderd something in those dates, it arrived after 23 days. I thought it was lost. :-\
So after all of this passes, i will take a look at NEMO.
Joe Soap, good news!. We can expect vol.4 sooner or later. :D
Quote from: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 10 March, 2013, 02:36:34 PM
Quote from: Mardroid on 10 March, 2013, 02:10:49 PM
A bit too raunchy and downbeat for my taste.
I find pretty much everything is too unraunchy for my taste. Even Lost Girls.
QuoteI think Nemo might be more up my street, although I never really took to the Lovecraftian stuff like many here seem to. (I've read some of his short stories and they didn't do much for me overall, although the ideas and imagery was interesting.)
The strip is not raunchy or downbeat, but it is mainly a reinterpretation of Mountains of Madness.
I really, really love Lovecraft and I'm not sure if that helped or hindered my appreciation for Heart of Ice. I enjoyed the Ian Culbard adaption of Mountains far more, although I genuinely have no idea which is the better graphic novel.
I was pondering on whether to buy Culbard's version of ATMOM, but due to reading some poor adaptions in the past, i relented. But now i'm thinking i should order it, seeing as how much i love Culbard's artwork. Can you remember which version you read JMA? The SelfMadeHero publication or Sterling? I was just browsing on Amazon and both turned up. The Sterling publication is a little cheaper but then again, i really like SelfMadeHero's product quality.
By the way, i'm really enjoying Nemo, the opening is beautifully done (and as i stated in another thread) the cameo by Dogtanian made me have a right old chuckle! I love the quality of the book itself, hardback ofcourse and the artwork in the cover interior is superb, especially The Elder One at the other end.
Quote from: Basilisk on 10 March, 2013, 03:12:45 PM
I have all the Centuries to date, and i have yet to adquire Black Dossier, and NEMO.
The weird thing is that it's not available at Amazon.co.uk. It says "available for pre-order". At least the Knockabout edition. While the other one, the Top Shelf edition, it's "temporally out of stock". Curiously, One of these editions is available at the Bookdepository. And the BD being an Amazon group store, i don't understand how the big one doesn't have it and the "small" one has it.
You can still order it regardless of what it says. I also ordered from Amazon. I can see what you mean about the 'different versions', just make sure you get the cheaper one out of the two shown! I hate when sites do that, especially The Book Depository. You can so easily end up paying up to £4 more on the same product which is cheaper under another link at the SAME site. Very odd.
Quote from: Mabs on 10 March, 2013, 03:22:51 PM
I was pondering on whether to buy Culbard's version of ATMOM, but due to reading some poor adaptions in the past, i relented. But now i'm thinking i should order it, seeing as how much i love Culbard's artwork. Can you remember which version you read JMA? The SelfMadeHero publication or Sterling? I was just browsing on Amazon and both turned up. The Sterling publication is a little cheaper but then again, i really like SelfMadeHero's product quality.
I've got the Self Made Hero version, but I have a Sterling edition of Princess of Mars sitting next to it and the print quality and presentation looks pretty much identical to me.
Thx for the tip.
I agree with the matter of different editions and prices. Some days ago i wanted "Battle Britton", the trade from Ellis. So i accessed the Bookdepository.com, and i saw two editions, one at almost 16 euro(more or less £14).. .but there was another "version", from Titan books, at 5,23 euros... that with a 10% voucher ended up in 4,79 euro(£4,09)... :o
The SAME book, same format, pagecount, authors... eaxctly the same. I don't understand. Seems to be that one is the british edition, and the other, the american one. :o
Well, i'll take a look and get the "cheaper" one soon.
Just read the annotations - good stuff, but they seem to occassionally miss stuff that doesnt need knowledge outside of the actual book to make sense of... case in point being tiger-lily/teke-li-li thing, which doesnt really need another reference (other than the rosebud/tigerlily connection via Kane)
Quote from: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 10 March, 2013, 07:42:54 PM
Quote from: Mabs on 10 March, 2013, 03:22:51 PM
I was pondering on whether to buy Culbard's version of ATMOM, but due to reading some poor adaptions in the past, i relented. But now i'm thinking i should order it, seeing as how much i love Culbard's artwork. Can you remember which version you read JMA? The SelfMadeHero publication or Sterling? I was just browsing on Amazon and both turned up. The Sterling publication is a little cheaper but then again, i really like SelfMadeHero's product quality.
I've got the Self Made Hero version, but I have a Sterling edition of Princess of Mars sitting next to it and the print quality and presentation looks pretty much identical to me.
Thanks for that mate. I will hopefully order a copy later this month. Oh, almost forgot, Princess of Mars you say? Now that does sound very intriguing! :D