The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, by Alan Moore

“Years before its publication, Alan Moore described “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier” as “not my best comic ever, not the best comic ever, but the best thing ever. Better than the Roman civilisation, penicillin … and the human nervous system. Better than creation. Better than the big bang. It’s quite good.” The third volume in his “League” series with artist Kevin O’Neill is indeed not Moore’s best comic ever — it doesn’t have the emotional force or formal coherence of “Watchmen” or “Lost Girls” or “V for Vendetta,” and it doesn’t pretend to. But there’s a certain kind of hyper-referential cleverness at which nobody else is even in Moore’s, well, league.’ Read the review at Salon.com.