Ash Ave Comic Book Club April Meetings: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus and Sandman vols 3/4

April’s reading groups are coming up, as we continue our journey into the groundbreaking series Sandman, by Neil Gaiman and a number of artists, including the World Fantasy Award winning story “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”  For our regular reading group we’ll be discussing Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus.

Check below for the meeting dates for the next two months, below that is the cover art and publishers’ summary of April’s titles.  All of these discussion are on Sundays at 6PM at the shop!

Sunday, April 3rd: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus

Sunday, April 17th: Sandman vols 3+4

Sunday, May 1st: Patience

Sunday, May 15th: Sandman vols 5+6

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The original two LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN epics are back in a single trade paperback. In this incredible tale, Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, and the Invisible Man unite to defeat a deadly menace to London and all Britons! Then, one month later, the skies over England are filled with flaming rockets as Mars launches the first salvo of an invasion. Only our stalwart adventurers can save mother England and the Earth itself.

 

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A new, recolored edition of the classic SANDMAN series with new cover art and trade dress. Volume 3 collects issues #17-20 including
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which won a World Fantasy Award.

 

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Volume Four of New York Times’ best-selling author Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed creation, with updated coloring and new trade dress. Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal family, The Endless, have convinced the Dream King that this was an injustice. To make it right, Morpheus must return to Hell to rescue his banished love – and Hell’s ruler, the fallen angel Lucifer, has already sworn to destroy him.