8:06 AM
I've talked to a number of people this week who saw The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and weren't aware that Mark Twain wrote anything about Tom Sawyer other than the eponymous book. Courtesy of Project Gutenberg, here's an online version of Tom Sawyer, Detective. Not that it will explain how Tom remained so young at the end of the nineteenth century, but I suppose I'm just being persnickety.

Of course, Project Gutenberg is a great source for delving into the background of each member of the League--and maybe discovering a few characters you wish had been in the group. For those who haven't read the League comic series or who weren't aware how truly steeped in literary references the series is, I refer you, as always, to Jess Nevins' annotations, recently published in trade paperback format.

(I now end this post, before we go perambulating off down familiar byways where I prattle on about metafiction and Wold Newton again.)

UPDATE: Whew. Finally somebody else joins my chorus ranting about Quatermain/Quartermain errors. I still feel persnickety, but at least I'm not alone.