I just finished reading the latest League of Extraordinary Gentleman (century: 2009) and the real big take away from the entire series is how it’s a metatextual rumination of the decline of the imagination. What I like about this comic is how it plays with all fiction and it seems like it’s a real advocate for why we need things to enter the public domain. It makes sense from the point of view that corporations are lazy and want to exploit their IP perpetually on why things don’t enter the public domain, Mickey mouse should have long since entered it. The real take away is that by these characters from literature, TV, etc, not expiring that we as a culture suffer because we aren’t allowed to recontextualize our past. It also attacks the idea of prepackaged franchises that exist only to be a franchise in a very memorable sequence set at a popular wizarding school.
I enjoyed the book as both a meta commentary on popluar fiction and as a straightforward adventure story that I have been following since 2001. Also this isn’t a review or anything, I just really liked and this is my gut opinion. I hate so many different things that I feel like occasionally I should share what I do like.
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