Man, that Alan Moore definitely went full tilt with this one.
It spans centuries and dimensions of space. It is one of the most meta-textual things I've ever read. It references like, 85% of the western literary canon and probably 50% of everything else, too. It somehow seamlessly combines Queen Gloriana, Cthulu, James Bond, Mary Poppins, and many, many more into a cohesive story line. It has an entire section rendered in 3D art, and comes with a sweet-ass looking set of plastic and cardboard glasses to use.
That last part blew me away. Not only is it impressively rendered 3D, it is incredibly detailed...just as detailed, in fact, as the rest of the 2D art. There are parts where art is layered on top of different art, and the two sets of images can be discerned by looking with only your left eye while the right one is closed, and vice versa. The level of planning that must have gone into the scripting, drawing, lettering, coloring....all of it is monumental and beautiful. You feel like you're inside the blazing world - like you can reach out and hold it in your hands.
LOEG: BD is graphic novel, epistolary, alternate history, fantasy, magical realism, spy thriller, romance, smut, Twilight Zone-esque, the past, the future, all of time and space and literature and everything known and unknown all rolled into one.
Just fucking read it, already.
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