Please forgive me if I'm so late to the party on this that the lights are out, the punch bowl is dry and the crepe paper is hanging limp from the ceiling, but I'm awfully excited to learn that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III) will be coming out next year.
If you want to know much I admire and respect and enjoy Alan Moore's work, use this metric: I can get viscerally excited about something he's done a year before it is released.
The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years and entitled Century.
Divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own current twenty-first century.
A unified field theory of fiction as much as a comic-book story, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume III): Century is sure to be like nothing you have ever read, and will be co-published in three lavish, full-color individual volumes by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout, commencing in 2008.Oh man. I need to, uh, go to the kitchen and make myself a sandwich.
(via warren ellis, who was talking about something else entirely)
