Talk:The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Censorship

A Kentucky librarian was recently fired over Volume IV, claiming it was pornographic - it's made quite a stir. Anyone more skilled with wiki formatting want to include this?

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/1011029.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.41.65.237 (talk) 04:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Racism in comic

That comic is full of racism. 87.139.61.151 06:21, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

This is true. There are many period racist terms used throughout the first 2 books (I haven't read the others yet), but I wouldn't say the books cast their use in a good light or sought to make them seem justified or okay. If I remember correctly Hyde, called the embodiment of evil many times in the series, seemed to be the most frequent user of such terms. To be frank, thats probably how people talked back then, political correctness is something that only started to appear on a large scale after the 1960's. Lando242 (talk) 09:44, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

This is...sort of the point. The comic is full of racism only because of the fact that the time period of which it's in calls for it. Mr. Hyde is actually the only one who really refers to anyone by an ethnic slur (though Mina takes a potshot at Prussians in Vol. 2 and Allan refers to Golliwog as something iffy, if I recall correctly). But this is the point. As Lando said, they're obviously not going to be politically correct in the slightest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.217.232.167 (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I see no reason to consider it racist; Hyde confesses that he hates and despises everyone with the exception of Miss Murray, thus he would not hesitate to use such imprecations, and the writers would not discard realism for PC policies in a series clearly aimed at a more erudite readership than usual. I doubt that anyone with innate racist attitudes would bother to portray black people among the ordinary people of Britain in the 19thc. as this does.

Much research has gone into this series, and the attitude of Hyde is as accurate reflection of the times as are those of Quatermain and Murray. Tarquin Q. Zanzibar 02:09, 5 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by El Badboy! (talk • contribs)

Useful O'neil interview

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Archiving

Does anyone object to me setting up automatic archiving for this page using MizaBot? Unless otherwise agreed, I would set it to archive threads that have been inactive for 60 days.--Oneiros (talk) 01:49, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Y Done--Oneiros (talk) 16:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Category deletion discussion

—Paul A (talk) 06:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

The Reception And Influence

That should be deleted because none of that is true i think, i can't find the source or anything for them! nowhere!--24.7.204.40 (talk) 03:44, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

You can't find any sources for that section, even though four sources are explictly listed in the footnotes? Extraordinary. —Paul A (talk) 03:44, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

deletion discussion

Please note the deletion discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_timeline_(2nd_nomination)

--Epeefleche (talk) 08:28, 17 August 2010 (UTC)