The inhabitants of Neverland have come to England (now Albion) - except for Peter Pan, who declares himself the enemy of Albion. The League of Heroes clearly owes something to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, though its premise is, typically, even more fantastic. Now it seems that they have inspired Xavier Mauméjean. The related tradition in America and Britain matured from the comic book to the graphic novel with the input of writers like Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, who have drawn some inspiration from Verne, Feval, Leblanc and others. The French have a remarkable tradition of what I might call literate pulp literature, which joyfully mixes fantasy, science fiction and the roman policier. La Ligue des Heros (2002) by Xavier Mauméjeanīlack Coat Press has published an English translation by Manuella Chevalier of La Ligue des Héros by Xavier Mauméjean. Xavier Maumejean is an award-winning French science fiction author. Lord Kraven, leader of Phileas Fogg's League of Heroes, battles alongside Sherlock Holmes, Lord Greystoke, Professor Cavor, English Bob, Captain Hook, Kid Colt, the Steel Comrade, Auguste de Grandin, Baron Stromboli and other colorful heroes to protect the mighty Empire of Albion from the dastardly villainy of Peter Pan, the Jade Mask, the deadly Doctor Fatal, the Pharaoh Im-Ho-Tep, Prince Sinbad, Fantômas, the otherworldly Horla and a host of other foes - but is that all there is to his enchanted existence? Whatever the cause, the world has never been the same since that fateful day when the inhabitants of Neverland arrived in Kensington Gardens." J.M. And others believe that the hole in the aether was created by Professor Cavor's early efforts to synthesize the prodigious substance now known as Cavorite in June 1896. Some historians claim that it was the earthquake in Sanriku, others that it was the Fairy Folk themselves who, with their strange spells, opened the path between our universe and theirs. "We will probably never know how it happened. Adapted by Manuella Chevalier - edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier
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