Forget this summer’s poorly reviewed Sean Connery flick–the original comic book by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neil is surprisingly smart, exciting, and literate. Mina Murray, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll, Captain Nemo and Allan Quatermain make up the team of Victorian heroes, meeting characters and slipping gracefully in and out settings from Rice Burroughs, Poe, Jules Verne, Emile Zola, Herman Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle etc etc.
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Posted by Jürgen on September 6, 2003
http://jurgenfauth.com/2003/09/06/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-2/
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