Welcome to the story to end all stories. Two decades of literary League lunacy have all been building to this the most ambitious metacomic imaginable. After an epic twentyyear journey through the entirety of human culture the biggest crosscontinuity universe that is conceivable Alan Moore and Kevin ONeill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comicbook careers with the series spectacular fourth and final volume The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes The Black Dossier and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow the worlds most accomplished and badtempered artistwriter team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place and to analyse critically and entertainingly the reasons for their departure. Opening simultaneously in the panicstricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence the fabled Ayeshas lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of We on the devastated Earth of the year 2996 the dense and yet furiouslypaced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World from the Jacobean antiquity of Prosperos Men to the superheroinundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering sciencefiction future. With a castlist that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories. Originally published as a sixissue run of unfashionable outmoded and flimsy childrens comics that would make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus this climactic magnum opus also reprints classic English superteam publication The Seven Stars from the