Moore, O'Neill, Dimagmaliw, and Klein continue their playful subvertions and feminist critique of the form and of the audience's expectations with the first part of the fourth permutation of their LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. Equal parts more obscure references and more open to new audiences, NEMO makes an effort to deliver on several narrative threads opened in the earlier volumes while re-introducing and developing a character we've only glimpsed in fragments before. One thing that Moore, O'Neill, et al, unfailingly pulls off is to have the series constantly reinvent itself, so no surprise that NEMO does not fail to push the boundaries of the form and genre while at the same time pushing the idiom the title has set for itself in the previous volumes. The next volume, ROSES OF BERLIN, is forthcoming early 2014. What superhero comic books could be if it constantly strove to do something new and uprecedented in every issue without giving up its fealty to continuity.
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