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Monday, January 10, 2011

"League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" In 1969 - July 2011

Sneak Peek the Top Shelf/Knockabout publication "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume III): Century #2 - 1969", available July 2011, from writer Alan Moore ("Watchmen") and illustrator Kevin O'Neill :

"...events take place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of 'Swinging London' during 1969, a place where 'Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26' is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children and amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration, while developing a taste for the occult.

"Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern 'Mina Murray' and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a 'Moonchild' that might well turn out to be the antichrist..."

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