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General Chat => Books & Comics => Topic started by: JOE SOAP on 24 October, 2013, 11:50:47 PM

Title: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: JOE SOAP on 24 October, 2013, 11:50:47 PM


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. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nemo-The-Roses-of-Berlin/dp/1603093206/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382654895&sr=8-2&keywords=nemo+roses+of+berlin)

Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 25 October, 2013, 12:00:26 AM
Sex-wee!
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 12:05:25 AM
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...
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Trout on 25 October, 2013, 02:50:43 AM
Oh yes please! I really enjoyed Heart of Ice.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: The Adventurer on 25 October, 2013, 03:09:38 AM
Sweeeeeeet
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Davek on 25 October, 2013, 10:51:34 AM
Is Heart of Ice that good? I passed as 1969 and Black Dossier totally turned me off LOEG.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 October, 2013, 11:15:15 AM
when?
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: JOE SOAP on 25 October, 2013, 02:23:43 PM

April 2014.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Professor Bear on 25 October, 2013, 02:26:44 PM
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.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Frank on 25 October, 2013, 06:38:16 PM
Quote from: Professor Vundabar K Werewolf on 25 October, 2013, 02:26:44 PM
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.

Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 06:55:06 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 October, 2013, 06:38:16 PMMoore 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
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Frank on 25 October, 2013, 07:07:25 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 06:55:06 PM
I would pay serious money to read Alan Moore's In The Night GardenOut 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.

Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Steve Green on 25 October, 2013, 08:29:47 PM
Plastic toy Glycon finger puppet.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: The Adventurer on 25 October, 2013, 09:05:13 PM
QuoteIs 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.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Zarjazzer on 25 October, 2013, 09:32:39 PM
That cover alone makes me want to buy it. I found Heart of Ice very good indeed, looking forward to this.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: Trout on 26 October, 2013, 01:18:50 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 06:55:06 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 October, 2013, 06:38:16 PMMoore 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

I want this so badly that my brain is aching.
Title: Re: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Post by: The Adventurer on 26 October, 2013, 02:35:31 AM
I really gotta make sure I watch uncut Metropolis before this comes out. I've been sitting on a blu-ray copy for over two years.