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Three of Three. The new volume chronicling the exploits of Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is an epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 80-page chapters -- each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliffhanger delays between episodes -- this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own, current, twenty-first century. In Chapter Three, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London, 2008. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q'umar crawls bloodily into its fifth year; in Kashmir, a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust; and in a London mental institution there's a patient who insists that she has all the answers.… (more)
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I'm leaving the final installment of the "Minions of the Moon" prose serial appendix for a sit-down reading of the entire Century arc.
In the story, Orlando tries to reunite the League for a final attempt at stopping Haddo's antichrist, the "Moonchild", from destroying the world. The Moonchild's
I liked this one better than the first two, partly because it seemed more focused on telling the story than showing off Alan Moore's insanely in-depth knowledge of old pop culture references. I thought it was interesting that most of the references, with one huge exception, were to TV shows and movies (West Wing, In the Loop, 30 Rock, Homicide, the Wire, Bond movies, etc.) rather than books. My personal favorite is the poster for "Who Dat Ninja?", starring Tracy Jordan.
Here we see what Moore has been doing with his continuation of the League stories, the continual
Once again, unexpected references sent me reeling with joy, and the ending was an absolute treat, especially with the implications Moore peppers into the dialogue.
If this is the final League story, it definitely goes out on an appropriate note.
I liked the anti-christ part a lot but the rest of it was kind of boring. The conclusion of the prose story was amazing (as were the previous installments) but as with the graphic novel I would suggest reading all of these books within close proximity to each other. Otherwise you spend half the time referencing the older books (if you have them) or catching up on the plot.