* At Comics Alliance, David Brothers presents four mini-essays on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 (link via Tom Spurgeon). I love Alan Moore, and I love his work with Kevin O'Neill on LOEG overall, but I think Brothers make some fair criticisms of this most recent volume. Like Moore's Neonomicon, Century 2009 feels informed as much by Moore's disaffection from modern-day pop culture as it does by his pure desire to entertain. Like Brothers, I loved the humanity and humanism in the book's best sequences, but the meta-commentary, particularly the Harry Potter skewering (and please be aware I don't give a shit about Harry Potter at all -- never read a Harry Potter book, never seen a Harry Potter movie, and I am probably more in Moore's camp on the Harry Potter craze than most comics readers) feels vague and somehow off-target.
* It really threw off the balance of the entire Century mini-series for me, because the end result, instead of an exciting conclusion filled with resonance and depth, turned out to be a bunch of stuff I was quickly flipping past to get back to the LOEG stuff. Maybe someday I'll realize Moore was really delivering something awesome and brilliant in the form of a commentary on Harry Potter, and I am willing to be convinced, so bring it on if you've got a point to make, but overall that part of the book really detracted from my enjoyment of what had been the most-anticipated new comics release of the year, for me.
* Speaking of Alan Moore, here's a question that was probably rhetorical, but I answered it anyway. My answer is not hyperbole, by the way, I was being literal.
* The Comics Journal reviews Gloriana, the new collection from Kevin Huizenga. It seems like I haven't read anything new by Huizenga in a couple of years, and yet this collection appears to reprint nothing but stuff I've read before. I do miss Or Else appearing regularly.
* I would watch a SHIELD series set in the same universe as the Avengers movie, at least to see if it was any good. If Whedon is involved, I don't see how it couldn't be.
* One of the things I like about IDW's ongoing Star Trek series, set in the new timeline established in the 2009 movie, is that it's in continuity with the movie series. At Newsarama, writer Mike Johnson explains how that works.
* Uncomics: Author and social critic James Howard Kunstler shares his online reading habits.
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