Customer Reviews
Fun. But no classic like the first - By: The Scribe, 29 May 2008 
With the first League book you could actuallly picture writer Alan Moore scribbling the tale out with a look of joyous glee on his face as he wrote. And because of that the first League is & always will be a classic. You don't get that sense of joyous glee with League volume two. It reads more like Moore is doing the obligitory sequel, with a relationship between Quartermaine & Mina that seemed contrived, & some of the literary characters were hard to place this time around(John Carter of mars? Etc, etc). Making League volume two no less fun, but much less classic.
Collision of comic worlds - By: J. Brooke, 30 Apr 2008 
I have to say that I was of the opinion that this was more of the same as the first volume (which I enjoyed) but nothing special (and rather a lot of pages devoted to rumpy-pumpy). Then I got to the section where Quatermain & Mina meet Moreau's creatures & I found turning the page a real, actual shock - one of those occasions where the brain has to turn itself through several revolutions in order to get the pieces to fit, eventuallly laughing out loud. I won't say more than that as it would spoil it for others, but I thought it a brilliant bit of invention.
Moore on top of his game - By: Mr. C. M. Owen, 25 Jul 2007 
The second comic alllows the characters to develop. It's just as entertaining & imaginative as the first with some wonderful situations. I felt empty when it ended (I guess it was Moore's intention). The book at the end is hard to digest though.
Dark Second Act, or Daft Sequel Axed? - By: The Kinniburgh Kid, 15 May 2007 I loved the idea, the artwork & the dialogue of the first book. I also love H.G.Wells' War of the Worlds so expectations were high. Too high as it transpired.
There probably is a great story to be told around the theme of War of the Worlds in much the same way there are endless Star Wars stories woven around the six films, but my overriding impression with this second League book is that Moore was so angry with the movie of the first one that he wanted to write an unfilmable sequel. He succeeded.
Still, there's enough here to keep me keen to read the next instalment. Maybe with lower expectations it will be more satisfying.
Could do better- see me after class - By: QuerCus, 25 Aug 2006 Not Moores finest but O'Neill on tip-top form. Mild eroticism, Dr Moreau & Hyde demise aside, a rather straight forward retelling of Wells plot. Feels like a single volume story that's been stretched to fit; extras at the end of hardback version usual trite, poor mans 'Haggard-meets-Lovecraft' nonsense.
Hopefully the third series will be a return to form.
