It definitely deserves to be considered one of the best Alan Moore comics works! The story, drawn by Kevin O’Neill, is really fun to read, and it’s incredible how Moore flawlessly mixes the characters from the different stories and make them work together as if they were designed to work as a team. Well’s “The Invisible Man”, and Mina Murray, also known as Wilhelmina Murray Harker, from Bram Stocker’s Dracula, and makes them work together to save the world from the war between Fu Manchu and Moriarty, from Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Homes stories. Stevenson’s novel, Hawley Griffin, from H.G. Riger Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines, Captain Nemo, from Jules Verne’s 20.000 Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island, Henry Jekyll and William Hyde, from Robert L. In effect, in the book Moore mixes Allan Quatermain, protagonist of H. And this time, it has a double twist, for both classic stories and comics readers: he takes the characters these classic stories, and creates a team of late 19 th century “Avengers”, or as Moore himself called them, a “Justice League of Victorian England” And Moore does it again… He takes characters from classic stories, and plunges them into a new fictional universe where they work all together.
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