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Nemo: Roses of Berlin (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen(Nemo Series) Book 2) Kindle & comiXology

by Alan Moore (Author), Kevin O'Neill (Illustrator, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition
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Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life.

Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, travelling with her ageing lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany's notorious 'Twilight Heroes', a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse.

Continuing in the thrilling tradition of Heart of Ice, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in a blazing new adventure, set in a city of totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares. Cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, lost in the black and bloody alleyways where thrive THE ROSES OF BERLIN.
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Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include Miracleman and Watchmen, for which he won the coveted Hugo Award. Never one to limit himself in form or content, Moore has also published novels, Voice of the Fire and Jerusalem, and an epic poem, The Mirror of Love. Four of his ground-breaking graphic novels—From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—have been adapted to the silver screen. Moore currently resides in Northampton, England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Top Shelf Productions; Illustrated edition (February 26, 2014)
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Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

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Dennis J. McCarn
5.0 out of 5 stars League
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014
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What, at this juncture, appears to be the last adventure in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. Although, with Mr. Moore, things are never as they seem. A rollicking adventure that appears to tie up some loose ends and puts a stamp of finality on the League's history. Read, enjoy and savor the awesomeness of a great series that sets the bar very high for any other writers of the Captain Nemo legend.
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David Swan
4.0 out of 5 stars Hope Springs Eternal That The League Can Regain Glory
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2014
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No writer has brought me more reading pleasure than Alan Moore and please note, I didn't say COMIC BOOK writer. I own a total of three DC Absolute editions and two of them are Alan Moore's and it would have been three out of four except I missed my window of opportunity on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Absolute Edition. Moore is my favorite writer period but it has been a long time since I have given any new material from him five stars. Starting with The League of Extraordinary Gentleman the Black Dossier, continuing through the three Century books and now the two Nemo it's been a bumpy ride. Moore has inspired me to read dozens of classic books based on the characters he's included in his stories. The problem is the more I find out about these characters the more problems develop and none more than Janni Nemo.

I have complained in the past that Moore demands a TON from the reader. The original two volumes were awesome but they included well known characters and even in those cases Moore took the time to establish who they were. The problem is that in later books Moore uses increasingly obscure characters with little to no background. If a reader read "Nemo: Heart of Ice" and had never heard of Tom Swift Jr. they would just assume he was a villain in literature. Except he isn't. He is a classic unimpeachable good guy. I understand that Moore needs to make adjustment to weave all these disparate characters together but Janni Nemo should never exist. If you read Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island" it is established that the death of his family is the motivating factor in Captain Nemo's life. Everything he did including building the Nautilus was a result of his familial loss. The existence of Janni destroys Nemo's raison d'etre. I've done my homework on trying to understand better the characters Moore has used but now it leads me to question how much Alan Moore himself knows about these characters.

So if I put aside all my issues with the usage of characters is this a well written book? Alan Moore remains the greatest comic writer ever and the scripting is excellent it's in the plot where these books have been underwhelming. Janni and Broad Arrow Jack raid a MASSIVE futuristic underwater Nazi base filled with Nazi sleep commandos (ok, that's officially cool). The base is being run by the female robot from Metropolis and Princess Ayesha from the previous book, `Heart of Ice'. There are a whole new group of characters for me to look up including Dr. Mabuse, Robur the Conqueror, Dr. Caligari, Dr. Rotwang and Adenoid Hynkel. Besides Robur these are all characters from cinema rather than literature with Hynkel being a humorous tweak from Moore (look the name up on Wikipedia). I probably enjoyed this book more than the previous four books (and way more than Black Dossier) but this might be due to lowered expectations. Heart of Ice was mostly one long chase and this book is pretty much just a 56 page cat and mouse game between Janni Nemo and the team of Ayesha and the Metropolis Robot.

This book is not going to break its way into my top 20 favorite Alan Moore books but it was an enjoyable read. What I enjoy most about this series is finding characters and then looking them up on Wikipedia to find out more. As I said I've read a ton of books including `The Steam Man of the Prairies', Tom Swift, Jules Verne and tons of others so in that respect this series has inspired me to become more literate. I just hope that this series is not Moore's Swan Song because he certainly has demonstrated far more writing prowess in the past than what is displayed here. Let me add that love it or hate it this is a lovingly crafted book that even includes threaded binding which is a very nice touch.

Addendum: Inspired by this book I went and watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which is considered one of the great films of the silent era. It did add somewhat to my enjoyment of the book. The one page splash that introduces Caligari and the "Sleep Soldiers" uses the same odd angles as the film which was considered a very influential film of German Expressionism. That was a great artistic nod that few people would notice. The Sleep Soldiers are a reference to Cesare the Somnambulist that Caligari used as a killer. On the other hand Caligari only acquired Cesare by chance and showed no ability to actually CREATE a sleeping killer. The look of Caligari differs from the film quite a bit which is weird because that would seem like a slam dunk. Also, the twist ending of `The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' pretty much makes his appearance here quite impossible. Still, it was fun researching the character.

Addendum 2: I watched Metropolis, The Great Dictator and Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler. The biggest surprise was how much I loved the Dr. Mabuse film. As someone with a very short attention span I cannot believe how much I enjoyed a four and a half hour silent film from 1922 Germany but it really was amazing. Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse were both directed by Fritz Lang but I was far more impressed by Mabuse. It's clear that Moore is not sticking to the source material. For instance in this book Dr. Rotwang designed Metropolis but there is no indication in the movie that this is so. Also, the Moloch Machine didn't actually exist and was a hallucination of the main character in the film. Moore also creates a problem by having Adenoid Hynkel's Tomainia in the same universe as Adolph Hitler and Germany since Hynkel and Tomainia were clearly intended to BE Hitler and Germany.

Addendum 3: I read Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror and The Master of the World. Moore seems to have gotten Robur's smallish `Terror' mixed up with the much larger `Albatross'. The `Terror' was only about 30 feet long. One could claim that this was a new LARGER `Terror' except that Robur in this book is described as young and the `Terror' wasn't created until he was older. This `Terror' is significantly larger than even the 100 foot `Albatross' which itself had no weapons of defense. Technologically wise Moore's `Terror' is far beyond anything Verne wrote about while Robur himself comes off as much weaker than the literary character.
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ClayJ in KY
5.0 out of 5 stars A biased review from an absolute Moore fan
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2014
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I am an American comic reader. Moore really is too good of a writer for mere comic books, but this continuation of his LOEG universe shows us how his characters have moved on with the passage of time. Tinted with strong leanings on HP Lovecraft lore, this tale takes you on a great journey into the coldest corner of our real world.
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Batmensch
5.0 out of 5 stars More of the fantastic series
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2014
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Alan Moore is the only writer of graphic novels who can make me genuinely frightened. And then make me roll on the floor laughing a couple of panels later. Simply the best. And this whole series, bringing the best of British and American adventure literature together in one series remains a fascinating and gratifying exercise.
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Jason Henry Evans
3.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to like Nemo: The Roses of Berlin more
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2015
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I wanted to like Nemo: The Roses of Berlin more, but I couldn't. While the combination of Metropolis and the Great Dictator was creative and magical, the story just didn't do anything for me. In addition, the gratuitous nudity was banal.
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Mike What
5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017
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Alan Moore is master of the public domain and of developing new characters, too. If you liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, check this out.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Alan Moore: Good as always.
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2018
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Second in the trilogy. Not quite as good as Heart of Ice. Almost too quick a read for an Alan Moore story, if you have the translations of the German bits on hand.
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Mark Griffin
5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Dictator returns
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2016
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Alan Moore uses German literature and cinema, including Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator, to tell an adventure far superior from anything by Marvel and DC.
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r_duke
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2015
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Alan Moore is the master and I will take whatever I can get that is set in this universe.
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Jan-Niklas Bersenkowitsch
4.0 out of 5 stars Eiserne Ladies in Berlin
Reviewed in Germany on September 18, 2015
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1941. Janni Dakkar, der neuen Nemo, ist inzwischen der Schrecken der Meere geworden und kämpft an der Seite ihres französischen Schwiegersohns, eines Nachfahren des Luftpiraten Robur, gegen die Sturmtruppen des tomanischen Diktators Adenoid Hynkel (bekannt aus dem berühmten Film "Der große Diktator") und fährt damit nicht schlecht. Aber dann wird das Luftschiff der Familie Robur abgeschossen und sie vernimmt Gerüchte von der Entführung ihrer Tochter nach Berlin, der tomanischen Haupstadt. Janni bricht schnellstmöglich in die Hauptstadt des finsteren Weltreiches (nach dem Model Fritz Langs aus "Metropolis" gezeichnet), wo bereits neue wie alte Feinde auf sie warten ...

Nach dem mittelmäßigen Vorgängerband "Nemo: Heart of Ice" ist "Nemo: The Roses of Berlin" wieder eine deutliche Steigerung und sei es auch nur, weil das im Band dargestellte Berlin, ein wesentlich faszinierender Ort ist als die kalte Antarktis des Vorgängers. Außerdem sind die hier auftauchenden Gegenspieler (Dr. Rothwangs Roboterfrau, Professor Caligari, Doktor Mabuse) wesentlich charismatischer und interessanter, als es die drei Science-Helden aus "Heart of Ice" noch waren. Und es existiert schon ein interessanter Kontrast wenn die sehr alt gewordenen Superschurken gegen die ebenfalls gealterte Nemo antreten und Menschen aufeinandertreffen, die alle Teil derselben Bruderschaft sind (nämlich die der Superschurken), aber diese Tiefen ergründet "Roses of Berlin" nicht. Nein, wie auch der Vorgänger erzählt es eine geradlinige Abenteuergeschichte, voller Action und heroischer Taten, nur dass alle Figuren etwas gealtert sind und ihre Glanzzeit hinter sich haben. Vielleicht sollten sie sich dann auch zur Ruhe begeben und vielleicht ist das auch die Botschaft der Serie, wenn man den letzten Band der Trilogie "River of Ghost" dazu nimmt.

Egal, Freunde der Liga finden auf jeden Fall weiterhin alles was sie an der Serie lieben: viele Zitate, eine erstaunlich in sich geschlossene Welt, die trotz der Verwendung bereits vorhandener frisch und anders wirkt und nach der Bitternis von "Century" eine vergleichsweise geradlinige Geschichte, die wie schon geschrieben actionreich und charmant ist. Und zum ersten Mal seit langem wissen auch Zeichner Kevin O'Neills Zeichnungen wieder zu gefallen, gleichen die megalomanischen und düsteren Darstellungen Berlins durchaus den übertriebenen Prachtbauten Londons aus dem ersten Band der Liga und erzeugen eine düstere Atmosphäre, die gut zu den Prachtbauten Londons aus den ersten Bänden der Reihe passen. Und auch die Action ist wieder so überladen und chaotisch wie seit langem nicht mehr und es ist einfach eine Freude O'Neill nach der Tristesse in "Century" und den ewig weißen Landschaften in "Heart of Ice" wieder in Hochform zu sehen.

Natürlich kommt "Roses of Berlin" wieder nicht an die Höhepunkte der Serie heran, aber vielleicht muss er das auch gar nicht. Vielleicht reicht es manchmal auch einfach nur etwas Spaß zu haben.

Vier von fünf Sternen.
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Maklouf5444
4.0 out of 5 stars j'adore
Reviewed in France on June 16, 2014
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Il faut s'habituer au graphisme...et puis c'est super; Quelle nana! Digne du grand NEMO, et même plusLes aventures de la donzelle et son univers totalement déjanté sont un délice.
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gianluigi
5.0 out of 5 stars Alan moore
Reviewed in Italy on June 14, 2014
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Un ennesimo capolavoro della coppia Moore - O'neill una ennesima perla da aggiungere la collezione. Non una sbavatura ne ammaccatura
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Calico Jack
5.0 out of 5 stars A triumphant return to form
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2014
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The Roses Of Berlin is a triumphant return to Moore's more action-oriented works, and reaches a new high for the general success of his literary mashup League series.

I loved Heart Of Ice, the first Nemo story, and while Jules-Verne-meets-HP-Lovecraft seems wonderful on paper, the story was inconsistent, oblique and a bit too challenging for a short graphic novel. The Roses of Berlin fixes all these issues and throws a whole load of action, adventure and character development into the mix. Moore has toned down the usual barrage of sex, hard drugs and mysticism that crowds his recent work, instead opting for a classic-style rescue/revenge mission in a sinister and exciting setting.

Set in Fritz Lang's Metropolis in 1941, the story is an intense mixture of early science fiction and World War 2 politics - in the League's world Hitler is replaced by Adenoid Hynkel, the parody of Hitler played by Charlie Chaplin.

When her loved ones are shot down in flames and held captive in Berlin, Janni (the second Captain Nemo) travels with her husband Broad Arrow Jack on an infiltration mission to rescue them. We get heaps of action in this volume, including Nemo's harpoon-machine-pistols, a new miniature submarine called the Nautiloid, Maria the female robot, an evil league of German supervillains including Dr. Caligari and a battle with an old and fearsome foe.

Kevin O'Neill remains one of the most interesting and important comic illustrators of his age but he's really stepped up his game here - the art is simply jaw-dropping. To go into specifics would ruin the magic but the climax of the book is a nice call-back to the very first volume of the League.

There are some sections where the dialogue is in German but this does not serve to hide important plot threads, rather it reinforces what the reader has already been told and builds the atmosphere well.

The League has tended to be a hit-and-miss series but this short and self-contained volume aims high and hits every mark. A very satisfying read.
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