I don't normally post about graphic novels but this one stood out so much that I felt it deserved mention.
Having never read the classics of adventure novels and knowing this was once made into a movie, I thought it would be a fun romp. And it was. Mixing Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Jekyll & Hyde and others from the period the reader is treated to a fantastic, Victorian tale of derring-do.
It was a charming story piquing my interest in H. Rider Haggard's stories of Quartermain's adventures.
There was also a treat at back the of the volume. In keeping with the way these stories would have originally been published, Moore wrote a serialized, six-part adventure that explained how Quartermain found his way to opium den in Cairo. It is there where he is introduced to the adventure of the graphic novel itself. Moore's wonderfully ornate purple prose gave it the feel that it was lifted directly from a penny dreadful. This made for a nice bookend to the whole thing.
Since the six-part story was prose I am counting it towards my short story reading challenge.
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| Alan Moore - writer. |
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| Kevin O'Neill - artist. |
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