Nemo: River of Ghosts (Book 3)

by Alan Moore

Other authorsKevin O'Neill (Illustrator), Kevin O'Neill (Cover artist)
Hardcover, 2015

Description

In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic, it's 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning to display a tenuous grasp on reality. Pursuing shadows from her past-or her imagination-she embarks on what may be a final voyage down the vastness of the Amazon, a last attempt to put to rest the blood-drenched spectres of old. With allies and adversaries old and new, we accompany an ageing predator on her obsessive trek into the cultural landscape of a strange new continent, from the ruined city of Yu-Atlanchi to the fabulous plateau of Maple White Land. As the dark threads in her narrative are drawn into an inescapable web, Captain Nemo leads her hearse-black Nautilus in a desperate raid on horrors believed dead for decades.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2015-03-19

Physical description

56 p.; 10.57 inches

Publication

Top Shelf Productions (2015), 56 pages

Pages

56

ISBN

1603093559 / 9781603093552

Local notes

Set in 1975, Nemo II and Cú Chulainn (known to his contemporaries as Hugo Hercules Coghlan) hunt down the possibly reincarnated Ayesha and finds her amidst an Amazonian secret base of nazi survivors planning a Fourth Reich. On the way there they pass Maple White Land as previously discovered by Professor Challenger.

Library's rating

Rating

½ (51 ratings; 3.5)

User reviews

LibraryThing member paradoxosalpha
Janni's final adventure as Nemo is in 1975, and it features the Irish Hercules, dinosaurs, fembots ("bikinitrons"), and the usual sorts of mayhem. The endpapers show scenes preceding and following the substance of the book, and are worth a look in their own right.
LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
This is the third of the Nemo books from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series from Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. It is set in the seventies and the theme is Nazis in South America building busty robots/El Dorado/Lemuria-Mu/Cthulhu/Creature from the Black Lagoon. Someone called "Hugo
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Hercules" who is a rock-em sock-em superhero from the early 20th is introduced and built up into this awesome tough guy in really heavy-handed fashion (you get the feeling Alan Moore thinks he's really "kewl," remember fifteen years ago when sometimes someone said "kewl," and I'm annoyed that Alan Moore made me remember the word "kewl" with his strongman guy who is also supposed to be Cuchulainn I guess) and there are no rapes, slow clap. I'm bored, so bored. I'll show myself out.
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LibraryThing member iansales
Although set in the world of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, these are a spin-off, and feature not the original Nemo, but his daughter, Janni Dakkar, who is now the captain of the Nautilus. In this third book, Nemo chases after Ayesha to South America and Maple White Land, a mesa where
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dinosaurs roam, only to find an army of bikini-clad fembots guarding a cadre of young Hitler clones… And that’s pretty much the appeal of this trilogy: you’re playing spot the references all the time. While some are blindingly obscure – those penny dreadful characters, for example – others are all too obvious.
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LibraryThing member questbird
In 1975, an old and ever-determined Nemo prepares to face her ancient nemesis, though her descendants and crew wonder if she has perhaps lost her mind instead.
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