I never had much interest in "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" before your Sgt. Preston fic. NOW look what you've done to me!
Check Monkey Brain Books (http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/) and look for HEROES & MONSTERS: THE UNOFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN by Jess Nevins
This is what comes of reading the reviews in Asimov's (http://www.asimovs.com/) (current print issue - probably not up on their site, yet).
Of "Heroes & Monsters" Paul di Filippo writes: Forget the trauma of watching the inferior film version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and return to the first sequence of the Alan Moore / Kevin O'Neill comic that inspired it. Now be prepared to double your original enjoyment ... this is an exhaustive and enlightening annotation of all the sources, literary, cultural and visual, which Moore and O'Neill employed in their creation. Nevins has amazingly ferreted out hundreds of obscure Victorian icons and other allusions that went into the composition of this steampunkish comic. On top of this fewast of referentiality, Nevins also delivers cogent essys on "Archetypes," "crossovers," and "Yellow Peril," as well as a fascinationg interview with Moore, in which the scropter reveals, for instance, his indebtedness to Philip Jose Farmer.
it is entirely your fault that I'm coveting this...
Check Monkey Brain Books (http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/) and look for
HEROES & MONSTERS:
THE UNOFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
by Jess Nevins
This is what comes of reading the reviews in Asimov's (http://www.asimovs.com/) (current print issue - probably not up on their site, yet).
Of "Heroes & Monsters" Paul di Filippo writes:
Forget the trauma of watching the inferior film version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and return to the first sequence of the Alan Moore / Kevin O'Neill comic that inspired it. Now be prepared to double your original enjoyment ... this is an exhaustive and enlightening annotation of all the sources, literary, cultural and visual, which Moore and O'Neill employed in their creation. Nevins has amazingly ferreted out hundreds of obscure Victorian icons and other allusions that went into the composition of this steampunkish comic. On top of this fewast of referentiality, Nevins also delivers cogent essys on "Archetypes," "crossovers," and "Yellow Peril," as well as a fascinationg interview with Moore, in which the scropter reveals, for instance, his indebtedness to Philip Jose Farmer.