immortal life on a space station with Orlando, Jack Nemo (great-grandson of Captain Nemo) and a clone of Mr. Hyde. Characters The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray Allan Quatermain / Allan Quatermain, Jr. Prince Dakkar / Captain Nemo I Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde Hawley Griffin / Invisible Man I Orlando / Roland Thomas Carnacki A. J. Raffles Emma Night Nemo trilogy Janni Dakkar / Jenni Diver / Captain Nemo II John "Broad Arrow Jack" Ashleigh Ishmael Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen Hira Dakkar Tobias Ishmael Luala Ishmael Armand Robur Cú Chulainn / Hugo Hercules / Hugo Coghlan Jack Dakkar / Captain Nemo III Tacarigua Ishmael Overview of the series In a 1997 interview with Andy Diggle for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk". Moore changed the name to Gentlemen to better reflect the Victorian era. Simon Bisley was originally going to be the artist for the series before being replaced by Kevin O'Neill. The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert "in-jokes" and cameos from many works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. The works bear numerous steampunk influences. In the first issue, for example, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the Channel Tunnel. Most characters in the series, from the dominatrix schoolmistress Rosa Coote to minor characters such as Inspector Dick Donovan, are either established characters from existing works of fiction or ancestors of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said (both by Moore, and in annotations by Jess Nevins) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of EastEnders. This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance. Moore said: Publisher change Moore's longstanding, outspoken criticism of DC Comics (stemming in large part from what he perceives as mistreatment at their hands over the rights to Watchmen) made his position with DC-owned subsidiary Wildstorm Comics (of which LoEG publisher America's Best Comics is an imprint) tenuous from the start. Moore's initial agreement was with WildStorm owner Jim Lee, who sold his studio to DC after dealing with Moore, but before any of the ABC projects were published. Moore