I liked League right up until Century: 2009
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where it is revealed the Anti-Christ is Harry Potter because god forbid, a massively popular book series that has helped millions of children get interested in reading is not only utterly crap because Alan Moore says it is, but it's also intrinsically evil and needs to be put down by stuff from Moore's golden, untainted childhood where everything was much better.
It's just a really ugly sentiment, so rooted in nostalgia and bias, that I can't make sense of it. This is Alan fucking Moore, dude's a genius. He'd never do something so wretched.
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You could argue all those kids kids didn't get into reading in general, just reading Harry Potter, who knows, especially after all the movies.
I think moore mostly took issue with, paraphrasing that volume, "vaguely defined magical principles and reassuring imagery from the 60s", along with the fact that Harry's achievements are sort of handed to them with minimal input on his behalf (something even not-Moody points out in the actual HP books), the latter factor extended to Moore's take, as the Moonchild thing was passed on from someone that was around a long time before the book's events were set in motion. Acting spoiled and out of touch was a possible extension of what that could lead to, and clearly Moore ran with the concept - not all his ideas are untainted gold, but I can forgive an odd turn here and there.
Mary "I'm in every page" Poppins was still great though. Especially now that I've recently read the original book, where she's rather different from the Disney version.
Still, with that taking place in 2009, it doesn't affect any of the other books, which precede those events.
Roses of Berlin covering the likes of The Great Dictator and Fritz Lang's Metropolis made that one book rely more on film, but did a good job of it - I managed to watch Metropolis afterwards, and the book made the Memnoch Machine bigger, giving it a more intimidating look that probably wasn't possible for a live-action depiction, ambitious as it was for its time, but probably wasn't far from the original artistic vision.
The next Nemo book will apparently involve a place called Spectralia, and with the events of Rose of Berlin removing a previously mentioned antagonist from the picture, I wonder who or what will be the threat there, although I'm sure a fair bit of the book will likely involve Janni dealing with the ghost of her old man, or something along those lines - there's certainly been a theme of her reluctantly yet gradually following his legacy in this series, so it's be a fitting conclusion... but as for what it may lead to, who knows...
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the frozen Moriarty corpse becoming the sole reproductive hope of the women on the Moon
, which like most other things that started in text-only extensions to the comic volumes, is likely to become a major plot point in the comics themselves later on. Spoiler, click to toggle visibilty
Next thing you know, at least one of those offspring will look like the young Moriarty from the modern day take on Sherlock BBC had some degree of success with.
