THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, VOL. 2

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 2, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill: Entertaining, although again I had to rely heavily on online annotations to explicate all the references because I simply have not read enough (any?) H.G. Wells. The most engaging part was the whole Hyde story arc; the most genius part was the absolutely brilliant explanation that all the anthropomorphic talking animals of literature (Mr. Toad, etc.) are horrific experiments created by Dr. Moreau (of Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau)—and they are very, very creepy.