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|title=Nemo: Roses of Berlin

|author=Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

|publisher=Knockabout

|date=March 2014

|summary=Great artwork lifts this soapy, idiosyncratic and short adventure set in an alternative Nazi capital.

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It's all very well having a heroic band of brigands and workers plucked from literature and being able to do the jobs that can't ever even feature in top secret files. Submariners, invisible men, and other individuals of mysterious origin, powers and sometimes intent aren't unique to English, or England. Hence this loose approximation of World War II, when Berlin is turned into a Germania-meets-''Judge-Dredd''-Megacity, and the Indian daughter of Captain Nemo and her very own special Captain Jack have a much more personal mission. The Fuhrer – and the real people and things behind the throne of the Nazi-type superpower – have something they'll fight to the end to get back – their own offspring.

I still feel my heretical view that the weak link must be [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]] holds true. His very personable decisions here include several pages in complex German, and what has he done to further his crusade of diminishing the routine superhero in comix here? He's brought them back for more, pitted them against some perhaps unusual German equivalents, added unnecessary wardrobe malfunctions, and really failed to engage with the possibilities of the endless universe available to him. What he has featured, in being a dynamic, explosive and entertaining snippet, is more than reasonable, but it remains a short book, and a typically unusual, soapy episode considering what it could have focussed on. He has a huge world to play with, and one day he will get it right for himself, for his copious collector fans, and for myself as well. I'll await the time when I'm completely delighted – we're all, like the ''Nautilus'', just sailing through the waters for now.

The most recent Moore title has been the finally completed and collected [[The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse|Bojeffries Saga]].

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