Continuing my trawl though the League in an attempt to understand what's so good about it. The Black Dossier starts in fictional 50s when Mina and Alan attempt to retrieve the dossier about them that MI5 holds. They then read the dossier all the while being pursued by MI5. The good side of Black Dossier is that it departs from the (in my opinion not so winning) formula of the previous books of rehashing plots of classical literature or movies. It's still referential as all hell, but doesn't feel quite so stiff. The bad side is that it's terribly self-indulgent, with Moore writing the entire dossier, pages and pages of text within the story. That makes the pace terribly uneven. Also the ending is bizarre, drawn in 3D and to be viewed with 3D glasses. Not in a good way bizarre though. So, in a sense, an improvement on the previous books, but still a far strecth from all that good. Oh, and clearly contemporary with Moore's writing of Lost Girls, there's a lot of raunchy stuff that's not wrong per se but doesn't particularly serve the story.
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