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I was putting some of this info that I've been storing up in my head for the last year or so on the 2000AD Review website recently, and to be honest it was quite a relief to get it all out.

Anyway, I though I might try and collect the info here, and see if anyone else has picked up on any details that I missed.

The following was mostly gleaned from the first two volumes of the series, particularly the text pieces, but also from various interviews with writer Alan Moore, artist Kevin O'Neil and editor Scott Dunbier conducted over the last year:

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-The title of Volume Three will be Tales of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

-It's six issues split into four different stories:
 *the first deals with the earliest League, headed by Prospero, Duke of Milan from Shakepseare's The Tempest
 *the second with the group headed by Lemuel Gulliver, ships surgeon from Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
 *the third with the second incarnation of the Victorian League, headed by Mina Murray
 *the fourth should include the 1950's league.

-The firt story, apart from Prospero, should also include Ariel and Caliban, and mysterious travellar Christian - from 'elsewhere' - and deal with the dissapearance of Christian, and the subsequen dissapearance of the rest of the League when attampting to reach 'The Blazing World'.
This will be a single issue.

-The second will feature the League seen in a picture in the British Museum in Volume One, consisting of Gulliver, Mr. & Mrs. Blakeny (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Natty Bumpo (creation of Jame Fenmore Cooper, writer of Last of the Mohicans), Fanny Hill and the Reverand Dr. Syn (Captain Clegg).
This will also be a single issue.

-The third story will be set in the early Twentieth century, before the First World War. This will detail the revived League's battle with their French counterparts, Les Hommes Mysteriux, which should include Jules Verne's Robur, Master of the Air. This team will be headed by Min Murray and a rejuvanated Alan Quatermain (following his trip to Ayesha's 'Pool of Fire', as featured in the book She, also by Henry Rider Haggard) who is now posing as his son Alan (who died in 1888 in Haggard's Alan Quatermain) to explain his youthful appearance. This story should also feature the return (and possible death) of Captain Nemo. The battle will take place in the abandoned underground lair of the Phantom of the Opera, creation of gaston LeRoux, beneath Paris.
This should run to three issues.

-The fourth story should deal with the 1950's League, and should feature severall characters from Kerouac, such as Dean Morriaty (who, Moore has said, will be a descendant of James Moriaty) and William Burroughs. It will also feature characters from the Victorian League; probably Quatermain and Murray, as they are now both supposedly immortal (he due to the Ayesha fire trick, she as a relic of her experience with Dracula) and Moore likes using these characters as focal points.

-The theme linking all the stories in the series together is going to be British Intelligence's growing concern with the encroachment into our world with that of the world of fiction, myth and fantasy, as evidenced in Alice in Wonderland, and will link into various other stories, such as that of the 'Blazing World' and underground caverns and cities beneath Scotland, Bedfordshire, Africa and Antarctica.

-The text piece this time will deal fictional historical genealogies, linking various fictional characters in a similar historical familial timeline: for example, from King Arthur in the Dark Ages, to the American King Ralph in the present.

-Miscelanious: the following may or may not appear in this series, but is planned to appear at some point:
 *a meeting, and possible issue focusing on, Sherlock Holmes during his Kent bee-keeping days
 *the apperance of sometime League affiliate and sex changing immortal Orlando
 *a meeting with Randolph Carter in his Arkham home, to deal with some Cthulu-like monstrosities

Mmmm...the credit boxes are the one thing I haven't liked since my return to 2000AD. Everything else is great, but I do look nostaligicly back on those old credit boxes.

However, pvs is right, in that the original Dredd credit boxes were a great design, and sorely missed, as it set the strip apart form the rest of the comic.

I hope that's a joke.

The Cursed Earth has to be one of the best Dredd strips ever - a stone cold classic.

I agree that the Jolly Green Giant story is rubbish; but Burger Wars is great fun, nearly as good as the Satanus tale, and that really was the highpoint of the entire story.

Funny thing is though, McDonalds and Burger King never actually complained about the offending episodes, and it was only after the complaints from Jolly Green Giant and the rest that IPC decided not to reprint it.

I was actually speaking with someone from one of the two named burger companies not so long ago who actually found the idea rather funny, and said tha they didn't think they'd have a problem personally with it being published, but that he wasn't so sure about the American side of things, who of course have the ultimate veto over such thing, as he thought that the corporate bods there are much less likely to have a rational sense of humour over something like this.

Shocking Futures and Twisted Times do crop up on ebay fairly regularly. Typically with ebay, you can see them going in a mad frenzy where I've seen some sell upwards of ?38. Other times, people have told me that their copies didn't even sell. I managed to pick up two copies for a fiver and a tenner respectively, so it does pay to shop around a bit sometimes.

Cool.

Sorry to contact you through the board, but I can't use my email for a while yet.

This is just a brief note to say could you leave out the files that I sent you marked 1a-e for the website, as the guy just came in and asked us not to use them. He's given me some alternate ones to use that don't have any words on them, as he's in talks to get it published, and said he is going to try and get some work from 2000AD!

Anyway, sorry if you've already started work on this and I'm buggering you up. My fault again, as per usual.

Also, is it possible to get an address for the website, as people have been asking for it, and I said I'd give it to the paper when the interviewed me earlier today?

"what induces narcolepsy in everyone else ?"

Working till three in the morning, with nothing to eat but two pieces of bread (had to take out the cheese - can't stand Licolnshire)

Well Zammo was definitely off his mash on ecstasy pipes...

No thank you, if you want to be polite.

My sprays run out now, and the pollen and pollution counts up today, and all these bastards are out cutting their grass! Even the cats making me a bit wheezy today...

I used to tell my mates in the playground that you could get high off Ventolin, and sold them puffs of it, but I have to say that it never got me mashed at all, although I did worry taking so much because the doctor told me it was dangerous to take more than the prescribred dose.

Ah, the innocence of youth...

I'll be Shooting The Horse whilst Chasing the Dragon soon.

Kind of reminds me of rittalin, actually.

I know different things affect different people in different ways, but how on earth do you get 'high' from Ventalin?

One of my brother's friends works for NHS Direct. I might give him a buzz and ask if he can identify the pills.

I think I'm coming out of it a bit now: basically, the wy I'd describe it would be like having about four whiskey's at lunchtime - slurring your words a bit, and being rather clumsy and knocking stuff over, but finding it all quite amusing really.

Well, it's not Ibuprofin, I'm pretty sure about that. I mean, I've got that at home. No, these pills didn't even have a name, just some numbers on it. I mean, it's not bloody codine! What do you think I am? I know it probably sounds like I'm chatting bollocks, but I genuinely didn't notice until other member of staff pointed out how mashed I was acting.

I mean, I've been much more mashed than this before, just not at work before. I'm just really hyper, but kind of monged at the same time, and I got the red eye.

Plus, my managers keep coming in and laughing at me, and I'm too slow to respond to them properly. I just feel kind of removed, a bit like being cacooned in bubble wrap.

But I do really feel like dancing, I can't keep my legs still. I might dig out some Super Furry Animals...

No, I like my boss, it's just that I had a headache, and he found some sort of prescription pills on a shelf, and offered me one, and I took it because my head really hurt.

Now I'm finding it quite hard to cencentrate my eyes: each of my eyes seems to be focusing on a different point, and I'm worried that I might be permenantly cross-eyed. And for some reason i find that idea really funny, and I'm finding it quite difficult stopping myself giggling.

"Been staring at "Snail" too long?"

Actually, she came in with her mother a little while ago, and I started laughing as I gave them her prize.

And Chuque Billy came in: he's a Native American!

I don't think that Cats should have won (even though it was by the daughter of one of my bosses), but the one that came in second in the -16's (The Velvets) turned out to be the daughter of this lady I work with on Saturdays.

It's been such a weird day today.