The Steampunk Boiler Room

I have the first half-dozen issues of the series (volume one), and I thought it was quite good, though I didn't pick up the second series or the graphic novel reprint. The movie version did poorly with the critics but scored well in the box office. Why not? It had Sean Connery as Alan Quartermain.

I think the concept of using various characters from Victorian fiction in a single milieu is a good one, and has been done by several Steampunk authors, such as Lavie Tidhar's The Bookman. Use of actual historical figures in an alternative history works quite well, too, as in the Burton and Swinburne novels by Mark Hodder.

Superheroes, too, are not unusual, as in the classic The Shadow stories, and in the more recent Ghosts of Manhattan, by George Mann.

Best regards,
CeruleanSon