Comments on: “The Black Dossier” – A Review

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[...] My Review: League of Extraordinary Gentleman: the Black Dossier Alan Moore just came on my face. [...]

By: Bass

Bass — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:10:54 +0000

I just read the comic the other day.

I assumed all this stuff you mentioned was in the extras that I couldn’t be arsed to read.

…

Some people think I am a smart man. This particular chain of events is conclusive proof to the contrary.

By: Ken Lowery

Ken Lowery — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:35:31 +0000

I haven’t read the book, and I had no idea any of this was fake. The edible page bit was, I thought, just you throwing in a joke about the craziness of Alan Moore’s concepts amidst all the “authentic” stuff.

Man, talk about meta.

By: Paul Pogue

Paul Pogue — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:39:07 +0000

I find it extremely alarming that I find at least two-thirds of these to be entirely plausible.

By: Colman G

Colman G — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:03:09 +0000

“However, I draw the line at hidden pictures of Twiki from the old Buck Rogers TV show.”

Bizarrely, one panel of From Hell really does contain a hidden R2D2. Not a joke; I think it came up in an Eddie Campbell interview once.

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By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:46:33 +0000

…er, Jim, even without looking at it, I’m not sure if that would be surprising whether it’s in the book or not.

Yeah, see, I wasn’t so much expressing surprise at the conclusion as the evidence that was, er, presented.

By: Zenrage

Zenrage — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:47:04 +0000

Damn you, MGK. You got me. Well done.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:06:21 +0000

I kind of wish things would go back to that way. Since my Protestant parents eat pork, they aren’t taking the Old Testament THAT seriously. Why did my foreskin have to pay for it?

I’ll get around to checking out Black Dossier soonish. I don’t even own Volume 2 yet, merely borrowed it at the time. The parodies of Moore’s crazy brilliance above made me laugh, and I completely fell for the main post. Color me gullible (it’s a shade of Puce).

By: MGK

MGK — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:59:11 +0000

…er, Jim, even without looking at it, I’m not sure if that would be surprising whether it’s in the book or not. Quartermain was born at a time when only Jews were circumcised, after all, and he ain’t Jewish.

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:57:15 +0000

Personally, I was shocked to learn Quartermain is uncircumcized.

(Only $24.95 to find out if I’m kidding.)

By: Rattsu

Rattsu — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:07:33 +0000

Augh! I thought it was all true!

*sniffs* this is worse than santa claus….

By: Brad Fox

Brad Fox — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:46:23 +0000

Get thee to The Beguiling – where copies (both cover variants) sit in fat stacks, and so much good stuff has come in over the past couple of weeks I left with a bill over $100, and had completely forgotten to pick up “Dossier”… which is what I went there for originally.

By: Justin Mohareb

Justin Mohareb — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:36:59 +0000

See, here I was going “Jesus! How did he get a copy?”

By: Timewalker

Timewalker — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:01:04 +0000

Yeah, it was the Amazing Hitler-man that made me tilt my head, but the edible page made me really go, “heay, he just might be messing with us….”
Brilliant work and says a lot about Moore that so much of it is believable.