So Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain are trying to figure out how to stop James Moriarty, and as they head back to Captain Nemo's ship, we learn Mina's purse has been lifted by a protege of none other than the Artful Dodger!

You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?

well i thought it was the biggest waste of money ever.

I'm not talking about that crappy movie.

i know, shmoo. i know.

the best moment was how mr. hyde disposes of the invisible man... awesome book.

Uh oh, I've only read Volume 1. Don't spoil anything.

Could someone explain to me why this is a better idea for a comic book than it was for a movie? I'm no foe to the graphic novel, but it's still about a bunch of characters from classic fiction senselessly cobbled together into a superhero team, right?

I can't explain it, but it just works better. I think it's the feel of the comic as 1890s pulp fiction rather than big-budget film.

well, i guess take this as me recommending vol 2, although 1 is better.

absolutely. and it doesn't hurt that it was written by alan moore, one of the inarguable masters of the genre.

I'll get to it. The Minuteman Library network (Boston suburbs, basically, if you can call Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline suburbs) has an awesome catalog. That's where I got a lot of those X-Men books too. Speaking of, I'm up through issue #293 of Uncanny X-Men now. But the number of spin-offs has increased so much that I'm reading a lot less of the available material.

um, even sean connery thought it sucked

i didn't think the movie was all that bad. dorian gray was pretty neat.

the comics are def. better thought...volume 2 with hyde and the invisible man was awesome.

The movie was disjointed, the storyline and character development were incredibly thin and Peta Wilson didn't get naked. I liked it better than most people, but those are major flaws.

The graphic novels are great.

It was definitely one of the best comics I'd ever read, along with Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan. I heard such bad things, I never even bothered to see the movie. They had no excuse for butchering it -- it should have been amazing. They must not have let Moore do the script. Big mistake.

Hope they don't fuck up Moore's Watchmen the same way. Just read Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons' The Originals . Very nice retro-futurist story on mods.

I'm going to take this thread on a lonely tangent, but are there any fans of the seriously disturbing UK comedy show 'The League of Gentlemen'?



It has Papa Lazarou (pictured) who steals wives and gave me nightmares for about 6 months afterwards, a couple of pig nosed shopkeepers who brutally murder anyone who comes into their shop who's not 'local' and a gay German exchange teacher who 'seduces' pupils and then buries them alive in the garden. And that's not including my favourite character - Pops the incredible violent, increadible perverted Greek newsagent.

Did you read this thread?

i rented the dvds, didn't really see what the buzz was about.

Just want to chime in and say that I actually like Volume 2 more. I just got it recently (took me forever to find it in paperback for some reason), and I've read all but the last issue.

I dunno about LoEG being one of the best comics I've read, but the movie for it was truly a tragedy. They totally fucked up the one chance anyone had of making this into a cool flick (which really shouldn't have been too hard), and I'm pretty sure there's no chance anyone will try to do it again.

In the movies defense, it was actually bad enough to be hilarious in some parts. I would even go so far to recommend seeing it just for a laugh.

I'm really scared of what the Watchmen movie will be like.

Are they really making a Watchmen movie? If so, that's truly awful. There's no way they can do it justice.

The Sin City movie looks badass though. And Frank Miller helped write and direct it. So, it should be good. (No Robocop 2 cracks, please.)

WHERE IS MY PREACHER MOVIE?!

they better let garth ennis write the screenplay and maybe get darren aronofsky to direct it.

i've always thought that there was just too much going on in those books to work as a 2 hour film. maybe something more like an hbo miniseries would be appropriate. i hope that this Hellblazer movie doesn't blow, as i really like the premise of the Constantine character in those books.

strike one: keanu reeves

strike two: his hair's not blonde in the movie

strike three: no english accent

I wonder where I was for this 2 years ago. It's funny how Preacher is getting the HBO series and LXG is getting... another book. In a year. Though is the Absolute Black Dossier slated to be released on amazon before the regular fo some reason .

I think a movie adaptation is bound to fuck up because of the breadth of the work and the countless references to other works of a very specific, copyright-expired era (which is probably a pretty good indicator who the who wil make up the team in the next installment with Quartermain and Mina- who's free?). But also Kevin O'Neill's artwork is so perfectly suited for the book.

There's two great books by a guy named Jess Nevins where he footnotes the hell out of it and it actually makes great reading.

edit. how I ended up here: I was that McNulty on that Hannibal movie trailer and wanted to make a note about it on the 300 page so I searched for Frank Miller. So I searched for "300 frank miller and ended up here. Instead of the 300 page, funny enough.