The League of Gentlemen

La Inglaterra de mediados de los años 50 ya no es la que era. Los poderes han instituido ciertos cambios. La Liga ha sido disuelta y desperdigada y el país está bajo el yugo de un gobierno implacable. Ahora, después de muchos años, la siempre joven Mina Murray y un rejuvenecido Allan Quatermain vuelven en busca de algunas respuestas, respuestas que solo pueden ser halladas en un libro enterrado en las profundidades de su antiguo cuartel. El libro contiene la clave de la historia oculta de la Liga a través de los años: The Black Dossier.

Esta vez nos trasladamos a 1925. Han pasado 15 largos años desde que Janni Dakkar intentara porprimera vez escapar del legado de su moribundo padre (científico y pirata por igual): asumir su destino como el nuevo Nemo, capitán del legendario Nautilus.

Los héroes más grandes de las novelas de aventuras (Mina Murray, el capitán Nemo, el doctor Jekyll y Allan Quatermain) se unen en un grupo sin precedentes en la historia de la literatura: la Liga de los Hombres Extraordinarios. Alan Moore y Kevin O´Neil forman equipo en este volumen y nos otorgan una oportunidad única para disfrutar de este hito de la historia del cómic.

Diecisiete años antes, la bandolera-científica Janni Nemo viajó a través de los hielos para alcanzar la Antártida y resolver el gravoso legado de su padre en una tempestad de locura y pérdida, de la que tanto ella como el Nautilus escaparon por los pelos.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published beginning in 1999. The series spans two six-issue limited series and a graphic novel from the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm/DC, and a third miniseries published by Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics. According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "Justice League of Victorian England" but quickly grew into an opportunity to merge all works of fiction into one world. Says Moore: "The planet of the imagination is as old as we are. It has been humanity's constant companion with all of its fictional locations, like Mount Olympus and the gods, and since we first came down from the trees, basically. It seems very important, otherwise, we wouldn't have it. Moore and O'Neill have stated that they plan to map out many different eras in the League series with Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray being the two constants.

After mastering the mix of comedy, suspense, and horror that helped define the golden age of British cinema, Basil Dearden (along with his producing partner Michael Relph) left the legendary Ealing Studios and struck out on his own. In the late fifties and early sixties, he created a series of gripping, groundbreaking, even controversial films that dealt with racism, homophobia, and the lingering effects of World War II, noir-tinged dramas that burrowed into corners of London rarely seen on-screen. This set of elegantly crafted films brings this quintessential figure of British cinema out of the shadows.

Sometimes God Hides: The Young Person's Guide to Discipline Review by Mike DeGagne
Sometimes God Hides is a musical stew made up of guitar-laden progressive and jazz-rock tracks, mainly from King Crimson and their solo members. With the likes of Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp leading the way, this sampler from the DGM label offers a kaleidoscopic journey through the amazing guitar craft of these talented musicians, along with some excitingly vivid excursions from Trey Gunn and the California Guitar Trio and a peculiar mix of new age and ambient from the Europa String Choir. Subtitled "The Young Persons' Guide to Discipline," these 23 tracks open up a whole new world of guitar and string manipulation, fusing familiar techniques with aberrant rhythms, electronic pastiches, and appealing yet incongruous string arrangements. Cuts such as Belew's "Burned By the Fire We Make" and King Crimson's "Red" (from an official bootleg album out of Argentina) tread on cordial rock ground but are still entertaining while, at the other end of the spectrum, tracks like Peter Hammill's haunting a cappella entitled "A Better Time" and "Voices of Ancient Children" from Los Gauchos Alemanes swoop and soar with a blend of new age mystery and modernized ambience. While the focal point of most of the songs is the guitar, the surrounding atmosphere of trancelike keyboard runs and unique string applications creates a multi-dimensional effect throughout each track. Moody and eccentric, this sampler makes for a truly peculiar instrumental journey.

Two Vatican representatives, Deacon (Kennedy) and Gray (Hill), accompanied by sceptical technician Mark (McArdle), are sent to a rural West Country church, to investigate the legitimacy of a supposed miracle. What they find there rocks their faith to its foundations, changing their lives forever.