Allan and the Sundered Veil

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"Allan and the Sundered Veil"
Wildstorm/DC Comics
Media typeComic
Publication date1999–2000

"Allan and the Sundered Veil" is a six-part horror comic story written in the style of a boy's periodical by

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I
and collected at the back of that volume. It serves as a prequel to the comic.

Plot

the Time Traveller (from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
).

They arrive at the Sphinx from The Time Machine, and the Time Traveller explains that they are there because creatures from beyond the universe are invading creation through a hole in space-time. They are attacked by albino creatures known as both

Mi-go (from the Cthulhu Mythos). Quatermain beats them off as the time machine takes off, but one clings on and damages the ship. Destabilized, the time machine is drawn towards a "chrono-crystal aleph" (from Jorge Luis Borges's "The Aleph
") and the riders all see visions from their pasts and futures.

Quatermain sees his first meeting with

Martian Tripod from the end of the second League volume; and he, Randolph, and Mina's encounter with a Lovecraftian monster as related in The New Traveller's Almanac. Randolph sees a vision of Arkham. John Carter sees a vision of him fighting a Green Martian and winning Dejah Thoris
as she rides a Greater Thoat mount (from the Barsoom novels). What, if anything, the Time Traveller sees is not mentioned.

Randolph and John soon disappear to their visions upon realizing that they are not bound to their realm, leaving only Quatermain to help the Time Traveller against their enemy. However, Quatermain's body becomes possessed by

Great Old Ones
. Appalled, Marisa flees the burning manor, taking the taduki with her.

Despondent at the loss of his friend and his drug, Quatermain spends the next few years drifting, eventually ending in Cairo. The story ends with him looking up from his drugged stupor into Mina Murray's face (as occurred in the League issue 1 and as he foresaw in his vision) as he is unwillingly—but fatefully—recruited into the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Relative chronologies

Among the characters the story takes place at various points in their lives:

  • Allan Quatermain: after his "death" in Allan Quatermain but before the first League volume
  • Randolph Carter: during his titular dream quest in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
  • John Carter: after his departure from Earth but before his arrival at Mars in A Princess of Mars
  • The Time Traveller: following his return to the future at the end of The Time Machine

Notes

  1. ^ Note that both Carters are only blood-related in Alan Moore's story.

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