Outside of a Dog: Moore, Alan: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The, vol. 1 (re-read)

Emmet

Emmet wrote on August 13, 2003 at 10:45 PM:

There are a couple of moments in there, particularly the scene near the end where Mina is inducing Jekyll to turn into Hyde, where I wonder how much of that is iron will, or whether there might be traces of mesmeric ability left in there from Mina's past.

Kate

Kate wrote on August 13, 2003 at 11:11 PM:

I've heard people cite that set of scenes as evidence that novel!Mina is actually a vampire, which theory I find distasteful because it seems to suggest that she couldn't have done it on her own, she'd need supernatural powers to manage it.

I don't know much about theories of vampirism in the source material, so I couldn't say how plausible it is that she retains traces of vampiric abilities from those events.

Kathy

Kathy wrote on August 15, 2003 at 5:28 PM:

Just to let you know, I'm enjoying LoEG II much more than I liked the first one. The attack-from-every-Mars-you-ever-knew thing is a hoot. But, I still need Jess Nevins to tell me what's going on. :-)

Kate

Kate wrote on August 15, 2003 at 8:04 PM:

Kathy: Thanks, I'll bump the collection up a notch on the priority list.