A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Paperback]

Jess Nevins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2004

Comic book, contains exclusive interviews and commentary by Alan Moore and Kevin o'Neill,and detailed, panel-by-panel annotations.

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About the Author

JESS NEVINS is a reference librarian at Sam Houston State University, and the author of HEROES AND MONSTERS: THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (MonkeyBrain, June 2003) and the forthcoming THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA. He lives in Conroe, Texas.

ALAN MOORE is the author of the award-winning WATCHMEN, FROM HELL, and SWAMP THING.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Monkeybrain (June 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932265104
• ISBN-13: 978-1932265101
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,136,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Go to Blazes!, March 11, 2005

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Paperback)

This is a reference book for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2. It helps the reader to identify the characters and references in the comic book. For example, it will tell you who John Carter and Gullivar Jones are, and will even identify all the different races of Martians and tell you what books they came from. Where this book comes in most handy is in regards to "The New Traveller's Almanac", which is a sort of travelogue about the League's world. The Almanac describes hundreds of fictional locations that exist in the League's world, very few of which the average reader will have heard of. Sure, everyone has heard of Lilliput, but who ever heard of Calejava? Jess Nevins, that's who. This book will identify the literary source of Calejava and practically every other location mentioned here (there are a handful that he was unable to identify). The book also has interviews with League writer Alan Moore and League artist Kevin O'Neill. This is an excellent reference book for fans of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great follow-up to the first LEG companion, October 30, 2004

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Mark L. Coale "odessasteps" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Paperback)

If you bought the first one, make sure to get the second one too.

No one knows obscure Victoriana popular culture minutae like Jess Nevins. Except maybe Alan Moore, of course.

And if you bought either of Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen collections, then you owe it to yourself to get Jess' annotations and other other ruminations that can be found in this new book.

0 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Failure, September 23, 2008

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Parsons 210 (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Paperback)

It would be nice to suggest you buy this book. I don't because you can google and get the same footnotes on the internet. For free.