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As you can see in old shame, he regretted this immensely box office bomb. On this weeks podcast we discuss alan moores the league of extraordinary gentlemen. It features celebrities from novels such as dracula, twenty thousand leagues under the sea, and the strange case of dr. Moore changed the name to gentlemen to better reflect the victorian era. A compelling story, wellbuilt tridimensional characters with complex motivations, lots of inside jokes and references to popular works of narrative from the 19th and early 20th century from burroughs to poe through verne. The league of extraordinary gentlemen novel wikipedia. Dcs the league of extraordinary gentlemen is a collection of comics created by alan moore and kevin oneill that started in 1999 and ran until 2018. Max ryan in the league of extraordinary gentlemen 2003 stuart. Alan moore is preparing a sixpart finale for extraordinary. Two decades of literary league lunacy have all been building to this, the most ambitious metacomic imaginable.
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