As you don't have this I can't say that the large format is nice. Nor can I say it's a bit disappointing that the record isn't included, nor a script book.
However, my copy of the Unofficial Companion, Impossible Territories by Jess Nevins, arrived today. Recommended (especially as there's a contribution from yours truly). _________________
According to an interview with Moore in Impossible Territories, the record was lined up and cleared to go. The original intention was to include it wth the initial release, but it was postponed to the Absolute release. Again, DC pulled it.
It didn't seem to be anything Moore had control over, and he does say in the same interview he will try and make it available at some point in the future. _________________
I was in Gosh comics in London yesterday and they had the first four pages from Century #1 on display. Apparently the shop's owner are involved in the publishing. They indicate spring next year for publication.
The page posted a while back is page 3.
There's no photos I can post, so I guess you'll just have to take my word for it, but if anyone is nearby and interested, pop in for a look. _________________
Alan Moore Interview from January 2009 "SPECIAL PLATINUM EDITION" issue of Wizard magazine
Quote:
What's going on with the League itself at the beginning of Volume 3?
Well, it's now 12 years since the Martian invasion [seen in League Volume 2] Mina has gone off to the matriarchal commune of Coradine for perhaps the best part of a year before Allan has entreated her to come back and they've gone and had a number of adventures, most of which are detailed in the "Travelers' Almanac" or in the Black Dossier. They have formed gradually a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This includes their immortal companion and lover, Orlando, who at the time of this third volume is a man, but only just, and is profoundly irritating a lot of the time. But they've also been joined by Thomas Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, and the Gentlemen Burglar, A.J. Raffles. They're still aligned with British Intelligence at this point. Their base is still the British Museum and they are responding to worries about the forthcoming coronation. There are disturbing prophetic dreams that Carnacki is having, and these lead the League into investigating this upheaval that seems to be surrounding the forthcoming coronation. Haley's Commet is passing overhead, which adds to the air of disaster, and the young woman that you see on the second page diving from a cliff top? Her name is Janni, and she is the daughter of the ailing and eldery Captain Nemo, who has been on Lincoln Island, his South Atlantic base, since retiring from the League at the end of Volume 2. We've got Captain Nemo turning up in what I think is quite a powerful couple of scenes, if quiet. And we get to see the Nautilus again, but it's not quite the same as it was when we last saw it.
Will any other old characters be showing up?
We see some old characters from the first two volumes. I think we catch up on Mycroft Holmes and Campion Bond briefly.
What are some other new elements you're going to be introducing in Century?
One of the main things about the first book of Century, which is set in 1910, is we focus mainly upon material that was around in 1910. Particularly the fact the Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera was set in 1910 at the coronation of King George. What that has given us is the same sense of dark drama or melodrama that Brecht had in his orignal production. We've worked the Brecht story and other fictions that were around or were in that kind of historical area. There's an awful lot of occult fiction that was around that we refer to. There's a scene in an occultist gentlemen's club where there are references to, I think, most of the occult adventurers and psychic detectives that were around during that period. That subplot is an important one that will will be carrying on through parts two and three of this third volume.
Can you expand on the role of the occult characters will play?
We, in the course of this book Century, we have gone into all of the fictional versions of Aleister Crowley that have appeared in literature or in cinema - it's quite an exhaustive list - and we've tied them all together quite ingeniously into one character. And he, if you like, is probably the central villian of Century, and that is a thread we follow through the three books building to our climax in the final book, which is set in the present day and which I haven't written yet because I'm waiting for a bit more of the present day to unfold before I decide when we are going to set it.
Black Dossier played around with the ways to present a comic narrative. Are you trying any new storytelling techniques in Century: 1910?
I suppose that it should be no surprise, given that we are basing a lot of it upon "The Threepenny Opera" but we have songs that occur throughout the narrative. This was something that I was very worried about because I thought that this could well break the drama of the scene and that I might end up with something that was a bit like Elvis Presley in "Blue Hawaii." You've got plot development going on and then somebody throws Elvis a guitar and he starts singing and everybody starts singing and it completely ruins the reality of the situation such as it was. But while I was woried that that might be the case, I'd kind of forgotten that we were dealing with Bertolt Brecht and "The Threepenny Opera" which is one of the most powerful black and funny pieces that I have ever heard or read. The material in these songs is so dark and powerful and funny that it only enhances the scene. It makes it more dramatic in some strange way. We're very pleased with it. I've written new words to a lot of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill songs.
With all the new characters and the elements being introduced, what are you most looking forward to in Century:1910?
The songs. I'm really looking forward to seeing how people respond to them. And that's not because I'm expecting everybody to frown and shake their heads and say that they're really difficult. I'm expecting people to actually kind of like these. They're really good and very dramatic. Our version of "Pirate Jenny" is a killer. I'm looking forward to seeing Kevin's take on the 1960s. I've glimpsed one panel showing a flash forward scene of the 1960s and I think that's going to look incredible. I've enjoyed seeing what Kevin's done with the whole book. I mean, I've been waiting for each new page avidly, as I'm sure everyone else has.
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