#allan quatermain

[theactioneer]

James Earl Jones, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)

[mad-scientist-in-theory-2]

Fuck it. League lineup.

[holy-shit-comics]

[bedbabayka]

Sometimes I just need it... Do you hear? I NEED IT! For someone to adapt the story "Heart of a Dog" as a graphic novel in the style of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".

Just imagine this creepy and comical scene of Sharik the dog turning into a human during a month in LXG style.

OR THIS FUCKING SCENE!

[comicmgc]

[opencharacters]

Public Domain's Goncharov

Oswald as Goncharov

Dorothy Gale as Katya Goncharov

Krazy Kat as Andrey Daddano

Allan Quatermain as Ice Pick Joe

Ozma of Oz as Sofia Modgliani

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Me (starting Allan Quatermain): Hurrah! Time for another adventure! Where shall we go this time H. Rider Haggard? Are we to return to Africa with our favourite band of elephant hunter, Zulu warrior, overdressed naval captain and peer of the realm? 😃

The first line of the introduction:

Me (already tearing up): What the hell? What the actual hell?

*Cue series of adventures and escapades with the gang*

Me (breathes a little easier): we’ve had rather a shock, but it’s all fine now.

*throws myself into the exciting culmination of the plot*

H. Rider-pluck-my-heartstrings-out-one-by-one-why-don’t-you-Haggard:

Me (through tears):How dare you kill Umslpogaas? You ought to be put away! You’re on a spree! A killing spree! What will you do next? Bump off our dear friend and narrator Quatermain?

H. Rider: 😏

Me: No! Please! No!

H. Rider:

My heart: *breaks*

Tears: *flood my eyes*

My life: *falls to pieces*

[tomoleary]

Kevin O'Neill “Bloomsbury Quintet” - Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr. Jekyll & The Invisible Man - 2003’s Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1.

Source (Colin Smith’s Twitter)

[nikkilalatablog]

[burningexeter]

Allan Quatermain (Voiced By J. Michael Tatum)

FROM: The Novels Of H. Rider Haggard

Frankenstein's Monster (Voiced By Derek Mears)

FROM: The Novel Of Mary Shelley

The Mummy (Voiced By Oded Fehr)

FROM: Ancient Egyptian Mythology

Mary Jane Watson (Voiced By Vanessa Marshall)

FROM: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008 - 2009) with her early Ultimate Spider-Man (2012 - 2017) design

Susan "Sue" Storm aka Invisible Woman (Voiced By Erin Torpey)

FROM: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010 - 2012)

Sable Manfredi aka Silver Sable (Voiced By Nikki Cox)

FROM: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008 - 2009)

What the hell is all this —

Heavily inspired by Alan Moore's comics, I want to create and make a potential video game or animated film or animated TV show called "The League Of Most Wanted" that brings together several characters of famous literature, mythology and even action cartoons of the 2000s and early 2010s.

[spider-xan]

[theactioneer]

James Earl Jones, Sharon Stone & Richard Chamberlain, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)

[pd-characters-of-the-day]

Here a public Domain superhero,Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines

[theperfectquestion]

I thought about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen several times while watching the new Nosferatu. I feel that Ellen's story moves easily into Mina - so long as you being her back to life and transplant her through time and space.

But on an emotional level I can easily see Ellen, having been through everything he had been through, to be the person who could handle the likes of Nemo, Hyde and Griffin. She would see the similarity between Thomas and Allan, the same courage mixed with cowardice. Of course she would be drawn to Hyde, knowing all about a split nature. And of course she would find a true companion in Orlando, who was never taught how to he ashamed of themselves. Von Franz would have clued her in to the possibility of the Burning World, and hinted at the forces at work in Kôr.

And how wretched, how cataclysmic, to be visited again by the Count when she was at her weakest moment. After that she became little more than a walking corpse herself, her kingdom gone to ruin - until someone called to her from far away and awoke her to serve a terrible purpose.

[krinsbez]

Pulptober 2024, Themes Elaborated, Part Two. Days 6-10

Link to Part One

Once again, thanks to @maxwell-grant who once again helped me with assembling the lists of alternate examples. Characters who have a plus sign (+) next to their names were suggested by him. Characters with an asterisk (*) are ones where I have not consumed any source material (note that I'm including tie-in or revival media as source material).

6-Steve Canyon/Adventures In Exotic Places: This one is fairly self-explanatory, being stories about heroes who travel to places that are exotic to the average reader. Alts: Terry Lee and Co., Ben Quorn the Gunga Sahib*+, Allan Quatermain

7-The Phantom/Beyond Their Homeland: I will admit this one and the ones before and after kinda blend together. The idea was that these are characters who are associated in-universe primarily with countries other than those where they were created out-of-universe. Alts: Lupin III*, Blake and Mortimer, Blacksad.

8-Barbarella/Pulp From Around The World. This one is, basically, to celebrate Pulp Heroes from outside the Anglosphere, but thanks to @maxwell-grant I have examples of this in many categories. Alts: Mexican Fantomas*, Zigomar+*, Ogon Bat*

9- The Lone Ranger/Weapons of Justice: For some reason, it is A Thing that many Pulp Heroes have an signature, unique weapon. This day is for them. Alts: Heiji Zenigata*+, The Avenger, The Sandman

10-Dark Agnes/Iconoclastic Icons: These are characters who go drastically against social norms of the society they exist in, the society they were created in, or both, beyond the general genre conventions. This one is a bit twitchy, I will grant. Captain Tempesta*+, Raffles (if you go with the Headcanon that he's gay), Golden Amazon*

Hrrmph, bit disappointed with myself with this set.

[travsd]

Exploring H. Rider Haggard

Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was born of a June 22. As a young man, the well connected Haggard had served in a succession of administrative and diplomatic posts in British colonial South Africa in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The experience, seasoned with his vivid imagination, fueled a literary career that consisted of dozens of published articles as well as 77 books, the majority of…