Alexx's Patreon Update: August 2019

[alexxkay]

It’s been three months since my last update. Been productive throughout, but wanted to finish a major task before posting, which I now have done.

• Finished my contributions to annotating League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest, #6 of which came out last month. Lots of political material in the final issue, both current and historical. Especially comics history, as in:
  • The phrase "beaded perspiration" is a reference to a famous incident of conflict between EC Comics and the Comics Code over the story "Judgment Day". This sort of censorship has been an ongoing concern of Moore's throughout his career.
    

  

• The usual integration of cogent comments on the various annotation sites. The conclusion of Tempest obviously brought out a lot of these. We also got an unusual number of comments on Providence, some of which led me to create a new page containing Sithoid’s marvelous work in Mapping Providence.
• In between all that, I made some progress on “Round the Bend” section 12, with Dusty Springfield. This section contains lots of hot lesbian sex, albeit difficult to read in the Joycean style. This is the longest section, so much work remains, but I should be able to finish it by the next update.