The whole big thing Alan Moore was trying to do with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was to do a pastiche of famous public domain Brit-lit characters that was NOT a Sherlock Holmes story, a Dracula story, or a Sherlock Holmes/Dracula crossover Cause most of them arehttps://twitter.com/raffleupagus/status/1312593159076089856 …
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I meant moore was chumming around in the WNU playground. I thought he was just trying out that whole shtick. I was unaware of the specific authorial intent of "no holmes" and "no dracular".
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Yeah everyone asked him why he chose to set the story during the "Sherlock is dead" time period between The Final Problem and The Empty House and he said he couldn't have Holmes actually be in the story and do him justice without him taking over everything
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